Space organisations in Netherlands

Dutch-rooted propulsion and AOCS company — builds green HPGP, water and cold-gas thrusters and spacecraft subsystems.

Designs and manufactures innovative optical instruments and payloads for Earth observation satellites.

Dutch small satellite company — builds CubeSats and smallsat missions and supplies satellite subsystems and launch services, a spin-off of TU Delft.

Dutch space component maker — designs and produces space-grade sun sensors for satellites, including the BiSon and MAUS product lines.

Dutch rocket company — develops and launches DART and Barracuda solid-fuel sounding rockets for science and defence testing.

European research infrastructure consortium — correlates and supports very long baseline interferometry radio astronomy and spacecraft tracking.

Dutch national space research institute — develops space instruments for astrophysics, Earth science and exoplanet research, part of NWO-I.

Applied research institute developing optical instruments, detectors and systems for space science and Earth observation.

Dutch national space agency — runs the Netherlands' space programme, ESA participation and satellite data applications for the government.

Dutch space industry association — represents and connects Dutch space companies, research groups and government to strengthen the national space sector.

Dutch space museum and official ESTEC visitor centre in Noordwijk — exhibits flown hardware and runs public space education.

Dutch space industry marketplace — connects spacecraft engineers and buyers with suppliers of components, subsystems and space services.