List of spacecraft manufacturers

There are five major companies that build large, commercial, Geosynchronous satellite platforms:
*Alcatel Alenia Space, now Thales Alenia Space (Europe)
*Boeing (U.S.)
*Astrium Satellites, a Business Unit of EADS Astrium (Europe)
*Lockheed Martin (U.S.)
*Space Systems/Loral (U.S.)

In addition to those above, the following companies have successfully built and launched satellite platforms:
*AeroAstro, Inc. (U.S.)
*Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (U.S.)
*British Aerospace (U.K.)
*China Academy of Space Technology, a sub-company of CASC (China)
*Fokker Space & Systems, now Dutch Space (The Netherlands)
*General Electric (U.S.)
*Hughes Aircraft (U.S.) purchased by Boeing in 2000
*IHI Corporation (Japan)
*Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel)
*S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russia)
*Khrunichev State Space Scientific Production Center (Russia) manned space stations Mir and Salyut
*NPO Lavochkin (Russia) Planetary and Lunar spacecraft
*MicroSat Systems. inc. (U.S.)
*Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan)
*Northrop Grumman Space Technology (U.S.)
*Orbital Sciences Corporation (U.S.)
*Philco Ford (U.S.) now Space Systems/Loral
*NPO PM (Russia) now M.F. Reshetnev Satellite Systems Company
*RCA Astro (U.S.) purchased by General electric
*Rockwell (U.S.) purchased by Boeing
*RKK Energiya (Russia) - Sputnik-1 world's first satellite
*SPAR Aerospace (Canada)
*SpaceDev (U.S.)
*Spectrum Astro (U.S.)
*Sun Space and Information Systems (Pty) Ltd (RSA)
*Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (UK)
*Swales Aerospace (U.S.)
*TRW (U.S.)
*Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (Ukraine)

The following non-commercial institutions have also built spacecraft (list incomplete):
*Air Force Research Laboratory (U.S.)
*Amsat - international consortium of Amateur radio operators with branches in several countries
*Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
*Redstone Arsenal (U.S. (Army)) Explorer-1, first US satellite
*Aeronautical Development Agency (India)
*Defence Research and Development Organisation (India)
*Indian Space Research Organisation(India)
*European Space Agency (Europe)
*European Space Research Organization (Europe) - precursor to ESA
*Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)
*Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (U.S.)
*NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
*Royal Aircraft Establishment (U.K.)
*University of Colorado at Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
*University of Texas
*Weapons Research Establishment (Australia)