
SpaceX
Products/Accomplishments
Falcon rockets reusable
Falcon Heavy launch vehicle
Merlin Engines
Reusable rockets which have been reused
Dragon spacecraft
Manned spaceflights in orbit and to the ISS
Starlink Satellite constellation
Cargo resupply
Used ocean drone ships to intercept landing rockets
Development
Starship – a new launch vehicle for orbital launches and interplanetary spaceflight. It is intended to replace the Falcon and Dragon series and will use several Raptor engines. In order to launch from Earth they will use a booster called Super Heavy.
Blue Origin
Development
New Shephard – rocket for suborbital flight
Blue Engine 4 – rocket for orbital flight
New Glenn – two stage heavy lift launch vehicle for orbital flight
Blue Moon – a lunar lander used for cargo delivery to the Moon.
ispace
Development
Lunar lander and rover
Polar Ice Explorer – a rover which can search for lunar resources on the South Pole of the Moon
Collaboration
Design Lead for Draper Laboratory’s CLPS project
Scheduled Launch
Two flights on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to the Moon for 2021 (Moon landing) and for 2023 (land a rover on the Moon).
The Hakuto team rebranded as Hakuto-R and refocused. They’d originally planned for an orbiter to pass the Moon but due to the increase in payload service contracts have decided to focus on landers and rovers.
Relativity Space Info
Development
Aeon 1 rocket – a mainly 3-D printed rocket
Terran 1 – launch vehicle
Scheduled
2021 launch of the Terran 1
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Products
DreamChaser – a spaceplane
Collaboration
Working with Dynetics to build a lunar lander for the Artemis program.
Scheduled
ISS Resupply Mission via the DreamChaser in 2021
Masten Space Systems
Products
Xoie – lunar lander
Xombie – lunar lander
Xeus– lunar lander
Xodiac – lander
Xaero – a suborbital reusable launch vehicle
Cyclops-AL-3 rocket engine
XL-1 – lunar lander
Scheduled
Cargo delivery to the South Pole of the Moon
Axiom Space Info
Development
Contracted Thales Alenia Space to build Axiom’s Habitation Module – a module which will test Axiom’s space module design before they build their own space station
Design
Axiom Space Station – a private space station
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Products
RL-10 – rocket engine used for the Delta IV and Atlas V rockets
RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine – engine used for the Space Shuttle
Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule Escape Solid Rocket Motor – the engine for New Shepard’s Crew Capsule
Multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator – a nuclear powered generator used for space missions
Development
X3 ion thruster – a more powerful Hall-effect thruster
Sources
SpaceX
MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/07/130991/spacex-now-operates-the-worlds-biggest-commercial-satellite-network/
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/08/spacex-rocket-test-elon-musk-international-space-station
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39451401
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/6/11599196/spacex-launch-landing-success-falcon-9-rocket-elon-musk
Liebert publishers: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/space.2018.29013.emu
Blue Origin
Space: https://www.space.com/38327-blue-origin-engineer-talks-next-steps.html
Wired: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-rocket-took-off-and-landed-again/
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34909713
Space News: https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-plans-next-new-shepard-test-for-october/
Geek Wire: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/blue-origin-launches-updated-version-new-shepard-suborbital-spaceship-test-flight/
Space News: https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-expects-be-4-qualification-tests-to-be-done-by-years-end/
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/science/jeff-bezos-moon.html
Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/09/jeff-bezos-aims-blue-origin-at-the-moon/
ispace
https://ispace-inc.com/
https://ispace-inc.com/news/?p=1376
TRT World: https://www.trtworld.com/asia/japan-lunar-exploration-firm-to-head-for-moon-on-spacex-rockets-20468
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17904898/ispace-hakuto-r-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-lunar-lander-rover
Space News: https://spacenews.com/draper-bids-on-nasa-commercial-lunar-lander-competition/
Tech In Asia: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/takeshi-hakamada-ispace
Space News: https://spacenews.com/new-fund-to-boost-japanese-space-startups/
RT: https://www.rt.com/news/412953-japan-ispace-moon-mission/
Draper: https://www.draper.com/news-releases/draper-unveils-team-nasas-next-moonshot
NASA Spaceflight: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/08/ispace-moon-mission-timelines-greater-response-customer/
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Space Ref: http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=54513
Space News: https://spacenews.com/dynetics-sierra-nevada-bidding-on-artemis-lunar-lander/
Masten Space Systems
https://www.masten.aero/
Space News: https://spacenews.com/masten-wins-nasa-lunar-lander-award/
JPL: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6635
Parabolic Arc: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/02/18/blue-origin-masten-vehicles-drive-highway-space/#more-67794
IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6497179
NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-to-deliver-science-tech-to-moon-ahead-of-human-missions
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Space Ref: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=49635
3-D Print.com: https://3dprint.com/7355/3d-printed-engine/
Space.com: https://www.space.com/38444-mars-thruster-design-breaks-records.html
Space.com: https://www.space.com/32692-solar-electric-propulsion-asteroid-mars.html