Resources - Planetary

Updated Jan 2024 - Focus on Space Industry and Planetery / Astrobiology Science

Space Industry

• Wikipedia List, Private Spaceflight Companies - Rockets, Stations, Robotics, Etc
• Legacy / Defense
  • ULA - Boeing & Lockheed Martin; Founded 2006; Employees ~2,700
  • Boeing - Founded 1916; Employees ~170,000
  • Lockheed Martin - Founded 1926 (merger 1995); Employees ~120,000
  • Northrop Grumman - Founded 1939; Employees ~100,000
  • RTX - Founded 1922; Employees ~185,000 (Owns: Raytheon, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney)
  • General Dynamics - Founded 1952; Employees ~110,000
  • L3Harris - Founded 1895 (merger 2019); Employees ~50,000
  • Leidos - Founded 1969; Employees ~47,000
  • BAE Systems - Founded 1977 (merger 1999); Employees ~40,000
  • General Atomics - Founded 1955; Employees ~15,000
  • Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3 Harris subsidiary)- Founded 1915; Employees ~10,000
  • Anduril - Founded 2017; Emplyees ~3,500
• Rockets
  • SpaceX - Los Angeles CA, WA, TX, FL, etc; Founded 2002; Employees ~13,000+
  • Blue Origins - Los Angeles CA, WA, TX, FL, etc; Founded 2000; Employees ~11,000+
  • Rocket Lab - Long Beach CA, NZ; Founded 2006; Employees ~2,000+
  • Relativity Space - Long Beach CA; Founded 2015; Employees ~1,000+
  • Sierra Space - Denver CO; Founded 2021; Employees ~2,000+
  • Firefly Aerospace - Cedar Park TX; Founded 2017; Employees ~750+
  • Virgin Galactic - Orange County CA, etc
  • Impulse Space - Los Angeles CA; Founded 2021; Employees ~150
  • Stoke Space - WA; Founded 2020; Employees ~100
  • Ursa Major - Colorado
  • Spin Launch - Long Beach CA; Founded 2014; Employees ~150
• Space Robotics / Rovers
  • Honeybee Robotics, Blue Orgin subsidary - Los Angeles CA, Denver CO; Founded 1983; Employees ~300
  • Venturi Astrolab - Los Angeles CA; Founded 2019; Employees ~100
  • Motiv Space Systems - Los Angeles CA; Founded 2014; Employees ~50
  • Second Order Effects - Los Angeles CA
  • Astrobotic Technology - Pittsburgh PA; Founded 2007; Employees ~130
  • Intuitive Machines - Houston TX; Founded 2013; Employees ~250
  • Lunar Outpost - Denver CO, Melbourne Australia; Founded 2017; Employees ~200
  • Oceaneering Space Systems - Houston, TX; Founded 1964
  • MDA Space - Canada, Houston TX
• Space Sattelites & Imaging
  • Planet Labs - Bay Area CA; Founded 2010; Employees ~1,000
  • Muon Space - Bay Area CA; Founded 2021; Employees ~100-150
  • Malin Space Science Systems - San Diego CA; Founded 1990; Employees ~75
  • Terran Orbital - Irvine CA; Founded 2013; Employees ~500
  • Maxar Technologies - Denver CO; Founded 2017 (conglomerate); Employees ~4,500+
  • Loft Orbital - Bay Area CA, Denver CO; Founded 2017; Employees ~250; standardized satellite platform
  • Varda Space Industries - Los Angeles CA; Founded 2021
  • Spire Global - San Francisco, CA; Founded 2012; Employees ~500
  • BlackSky - Seattle, WA; Founded 2014; Employees ~300
  • Array Labs - Bay Area CA; Founded 2021
• Planetary Space Craft Optics / Sensing
  • Impossible Sensing - St. Louis MS
  • Photon Systems - Los Angeles CA
• Additional
  • The Aerospace Corporation - Los Angeles CA; Founded 1960; Employees ~4,500+
  • Sierra Nevada Corporation - Nevada; Founded 1963; Employees ~5,000+
  • Ball Aerospace, BAE Systems subsidary - Denver CO; Founded 1956; Employees ~5,000+
  • Redwire Space - FL, CA more; Founded 2020; Employees ~700+
• Mining
  • Astroforge - Huntington Beach CA; Founded 2022; Employees ~50
  • Offworld - Los Angeles CA; Founded 2016; Employees ~50
• Stations
  • Axiom Space - Houston TX; Founded 2016; Employees ~1,000
  • Vast Space - Long Beach CA; Founded 2021; Employees ~600
• Lunar Organizations
  • Open Lunar Foundation
  • Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC), JHU
  • Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), LPI
  • Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, NASA

Research Labs & Institutes

• NASA Astrobiology
  • https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/
• NASA Centers
  • NASA Science About, Wiki List - Ames CA, Johnson TX, Stennis MS, Marshall AL, Kennedy FL, Glenn OH, Goddard DC, Langely VA
• Academic Research Centers
  • Jet Propulsion Lab, Cal Tech - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
  • Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins - https://www.jhuapl.edu/
• Independent Research Centers
  • Desert Research Institute - https://www.dri.edu/
  • Southwest Research Institute - https://www.swri.org/
• Non-Profits Etc. - Planetary Science & Astrobiology
  • SETI - https://www.seti.org/
  • American Astronomical Society - https://dps.aas.org/
  • Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) - https://www.lpi.usra.edu/
  • Planetary Society - https://www.planetary.org
  • Planetary Science Institute - https://www.psi.edu/
  • Blue Marble Space - https://bluemarblespace.org/

Education

• Graduate Schools, Planetary Science - https://dps.aas.org/education/graduate-schools/
• Graduate Schools, Astrobiology - https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/careers-employment-courses/
• Astrobiology Summer School, International Geobiology Course - https://web.gps.caltech.edu/GBcourse/information.html
• Education, Mission Design Schools - JPL NASA Science https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/nasa-science-mission-design-schools/

Conferences / Meetings / Organizations

• AbSciConn - https://www.agu.org/abscicon
• AbGradCon - https://www.abgradcon.org/
• Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) - https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/
• Outer Planetary Assessment Group (OPAG) - https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/
• AIAA ASCEND - https://www.ascend.events/
• Network for Ocean Worlds - https://oceanworlds.space
• Others

Publications

• Astrobiology, AGU Earth & Space, Icarus, Planetary Science Journal, and others

Fieldwork

• Planetary Analogs
  • Wikipedia List, Terresterial Analog Sites
  • Wikipedia List, Mar Analogs
  • ESA List - https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/The_Catalogue_of_Planetary_Analogues.pdf
  • USGS Catalog - https://tadp.astrogeology.usgs.gov
• Human Research Analogs
  • NASA List - https://www.nasa.gov/analog-missions/
  • NASA: NASA HERA, NASA CHAPEA, NASA NEEMO, NASA HESTIA, NASA Desert RATS
  • ESA: ESA PANGEA, ESA CAVES
  • Independent Organizations: Haughton-Mars Project, Mars Desert Research Station, HI-SEA

Funding

• NASA PSTAR, Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research - https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/pstar/
• NASA ColdTech - https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/pesto/investment-areas/coldtech/
• NASA NIAC, Innovative Advanced Concepts - https://www.nasa.gov/stmd-the-nasa-innovative-advanced-concepts-niac/
• Others

Key Documents

• Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 - https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/planetary-science-and-astrobiology-decadal-survey-2023-2032
• Moon to Mars Architecture - https://www.nasa.gov/moontomarsarchitecture/, https://www.nasa.gov/moontomarsarchitecture-whitepapers/

Misc

• Planetary Science, List of Institutions / Societies / Etc. - https://www.boulder.swri.edu/~bottke/departments.html