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List of private spaceflight companies

Private spaceflight companies include non-governmental or privately-owned entities focused on developing and/or offering equipment and services geared towards spaceflight, both robotic and human. This list includes both inactive and active entities.

Commercial astronauts

Manufacturers of space vehicles

Cargo transport vehicles

Crew transport vehicles

Orbital

* - Format: Crewed (Uncrewed), includes failures
  1. ^ Number of seats will be 4 for crew member rotations for the ISS
  2. ^ Although designed to be capable of flying to anywhere in the solar system, this vehicle's intended maximum range is Mars
  3. ^ Plus fins/legs

Suborbital

* - Format: Crewed (Uncrewed), includes failures
  1. ^ Does not include crewed atmospheric flights
  2. ^ Does not include powered flights not intended to reach space
  3. ^ Denmark's amateur human space program.

Launch vehicle manufacturers

Landers, rovers and orbiters

Research craft and tech demonstrators

Propulsion manufacturers

Satellite launchers

Space-based economy

Space manufacturing

Space mining

Space stations

Spacecraft component developers and manufacturers

Spaceliner companies

See also

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