What Are The Various Space Agencies And Companies Competing In The Space Race (Intro to Space #2) Youtube Video

 

Agencies

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) - October 1, 1958

Known for countless historic missions such as

Apollo 11 - First astronauts on the moon with famous crew of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

Skylab - First American space station

Space Shuttle - Carried the first astronauts into space

ISS - International space station as a joint effort from the US, Soviet Union, Europe and various other countries

Currently has launched the perseverance rover which will land in February of 2021

Europa Clipper project where they observe Europa’s icy surface in order for future habitation

NASA’s Artemis program focusing on landing the next man and woman on the moon by 2020. Interestingly the name for the program was created as a reference to the Apollo program.

ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) - August 15, 1969

Made significant progress very recently

PSLV-C37 which had launched 104 satellites in a single rocket launch

GSLV-MK III - also known as fat boy which had carried a satellite that weighs 3 tones

Chandrayan I and II - which had first discovered signs of frozen water of the moon

PSLV-C25 Mars Orbiter Mission 2 which is going to be responsible for the study of the Martian atmosphere and geography

Chandrayan 3 - which they are going to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface

ESA (European Space Agency) - May 30, 1975

22 countries in Europe

Hubble Space Telescope - joint mission with NASA

Mars Express Mission - sent a space probe to mars

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - created to study the sun 

PROBA-3, launching mid-2022 – Microsatellite solar observation and formation flying demonstration mission, serving as the fourth flight in the Proba series.

Rosalind Franklin rover, launching 2022 – ESA component of the joint Roscosmos-ESA ExoMars 2020 Mars lander mission. Planned to be the first European Mars rover.

CNSA (China National Space Administration)

made a successful soft landing on the moon with its lander, Chang'e-3

In 2018, the Chang'e 4 lander was sent to the far side of the Moon, where it deployed the Yutu 2 rover to explore the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

The Chang'e 6 mission is a planned lander designed to return samples from the lunar south pole. Whether it will land on the nearside or far side will depend to some extent on the success of the Chang'e 4 far side mission. Chang'e 7 is planned to make detailed surveys of the south polar region of the Moon, covering the terrain, geological composition, locations of water ice, and space environment.

SpaceX - Elon Musk -Tesla

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Turksat 5A communications satellite for the Turkish satellite operator Turksat. It will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 1 rideshare mission with dozens of tiny satellites for commercial and government customers. It will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. March 30: SpaceX will launch the second operational flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station

Blue Origin - Jeff Bezos also the founder of the multinational company Amazon

aims to make access to space cheaper and more reliable through reusable launch vehicles. 

Successful with its shepherd and new shepherd launches

Blue Origin's future New Glenn rocket will join NASA's fleet of commercial launch vehicles for flights in the mid-2020s, the agency and company announced this week.

Boeing - William E. Boeing in 1916 and has grown a lot from there

assured space exploration and commercial access

After a successful OFT-2, Boeing and NASA will fly Starliner's first crewed mission, the Crew Flight Test, currently targeted for no earlier than June 2021, with the first post-certification mission, called Starliner-1, tentatively scheduled for no earlier than late December 2021.

Virgin Galactic - created by Richard Branson who is also the chairman for virgin group including virgin airlines

we focus on using space for good while delivering an unparalleled customer experience

Virgin Galactic executives said Nov. 5 that the company is ready to begin a final series of test flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle as the company attempts to move into commercial operations in 2021

Northup Grumman - Jack Northrup in 1939

Focused on the military expansion of space

Northrop Grumman supports NASA's Artemis program by providing the solid rocket boosters for the NASA Space Launch System and the abort motor and attitude control motor for the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System.

Future missions in missile tracking, missile defense, satellite jamming and development of Ground Based Strategic Deterrent for nuclear missiles