Space Launch Services Companies

October 2023- The US Space Force recently launched 2 solicitations for the upcoming round of the national security launch contracts, called National Security Space Launch phase 3. The NSSL phase 3 in fact is a procurement of the launch services which is worth a multibillion dollar projected for 2025 through 2034. The NSSL phase 3 has 2 solicitations as the Space Force has split the program in 2 lanes. The portion under lane 1 of the phase 3 of NSSL comprise low risk missions to low orbits, open for just any launch provider having a proven flight record. As over 30 missions will get awarded on a yearly basis within a decade extending from 2025 through 2034. On the other side, the lane two solicitation will be open for heavy-lift launch providers which are certified via the United States Space Force & can fly payloads to 9 reference orbits that comprise few of the missions that are the most demanding.

September 2023- NASA has picked SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket to offer the launch solution for the company’s TRACERS or tandem reconnection & cusp electrodynamics reconnaissance satellites mission, with a pair of small satellites which will study the space weather & also how the energy of the Sun affects the magnetic environment of the Earth or magnetosphere. TRACERS will truly be a vital add on to NASA’s heliophysics fleet & aims in answering long-standing queries critical to understand the Sun-Earth system. TRACERS will be led via the University of lowa having partners at San Antonio’s Southwest Research Institute and California’s Millennium Space Systems.

Key Companies Space Launch Services Market Include:

• Antrix Corporation Limited (India)


• International Launch Services Inc. (US)


• Arianespace (France)


• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan)


• Eurockot Launch Services (Germany)


• ISC Kosmotras (Russia)


• China Great Wall Industry Corporation (China)


• Orbital ATK (US), SpaceX (US)


• US Spaceflight Industries, Inc. (US)