Space Economy

Rocket Lab Corporation is an end-to-end space company. The Company designs and manufactures small and medium-class rockets, spacecraft and spacecraft components, and related software and services to support the space economy. The Company delivers reliable launch services, satellite manufacture, spacecraft design services, spacecraft components, spacecraft manufacturing, and other spacecraft and on-orbit management solutions that make it easier to access space. Its Launch Services segment provides launch and launch-related services to customers on a dedicated mission or ride-share basis. Its Space Systems segment comprises the design and manufacture of spacecraft components and spacecraft program management services, space data applications, and mission operations. Its space systems solutions are the building blocks for spacecraft, which include composite structures, reaction wheels, star trackers, solar solutions, radios, separation systems, and command and control spacecraft software.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global aerospace and defense technology company. Its segments include Aeronautics Systems, Defense Systems, Mission Systems, and Space Systems. Aeronautics Systems is engaged in the design, development, production, integration, sustainment and modernization of military aircraft systems for the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, other United States government agencies, and international customers. Defense Systems is engaged in the design, engineering, development, integration, and manufacturing of deterrent systems, advanced tactical weapons, and missile defense solutions. Mission Systems is a provider of mission solutions and multifunction systems. Its products and services include command, control, communications and computers, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Space Systems delivers end-to-end mission solutions through the design, development, integration, production and operation of space, missile defense, and launch systems.

Lockheed Martin Corporation is a global aerospace and defense company. The Company is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Its segments include Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control (MFC), Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) and Space. Aeronautics segment is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, sustainment, support and upgrade of advanced military aircraft. MFC segment provides air and missile defense systems, manned and unmanned ground vehicles, energy management solutions, and others. RMS segment designs, manufactures, services and supports various military and commercial helicopters, surface ships, sea and land-based missile defense systems, and others. Its Space segment is engaged in the research and design, development, engineering and production of satellites, space transportation systems, and strategic, advanced strike, and defensive systems.

The Boeing Company is an aerospace company. Its segments include Commercial Airplanes (BCA), Defense, Space & Security (BDS), and Global Services (BGS). Its BCA segment develops, produces and markets commercial jet aircraft principally for the commercial airline industry worldwide. Its family of commercial jet aircraft in production includes the 737 narrow-body model and the 767, 777 and 787 wide-body models. Its BDS segment is engaged in the research, development, production and modification of manned and unmanned military aircraft and weapons systems for strike, surveillance and mobility. Its BGS segment provides services to its commercial and defense customers worldwide. It sustains aerospace platforms and systems with a range of products and services, including supply chain and logistics management, engineering, maintenance and modifications, upgrades and conversions, spare parts, pilot and maintenance training systems and services, technical and maintenance documents, and others.

Iridium Communications Inc. operates the mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe. The Company enables connections between people, organizations and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. Together with its ecosystem of partner companies, it delivers a portfolio of solutions for markets that require global communications. Its principal vertical lines of business include land mobile, maritime, aviation, IoT, hosted payloads and other data services, which includes navigation and timing (PNT), and the United States government. Its products include Iridium 9555, Iridium Extreme satellite phones, Iridium Extreme PTT, Iridium GO! Iridium GO!, and others. It provides voice and data communications services to businesses, the United States and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, and consumers via its satellite network, which has an architecture of 66 operational satellites with in-orbit spares and related ground infrastructure.

Trimble Inc. is a global technology company. The Company's segments include Architects, Engineers, Construction and Owners (AECO), Field Systems and Transportation and Logistics (T&L). The AECO segment serves organizations across architecture, engineering, construction, and asset ownership through a connected lifecycle solution. Within this segment, its substantial product portfolios are focused on architectural and interior design, structural and civil engineering, building and infrastructure construction, and the operations and maintenance of assets. The Field Systems segment serves customers working in surveying and mapping, civil construction, building construction field services, and positioning systems. Within this segment, its substantial product portfolios are hardware and software solutions focused on geospatial, civil engineering construction, and positioning services. T&L segment provides a suite of solutions for shippers, carriers, retailers, and intermediaries globally.

Spire Global, Inc. is a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, offering datasets and insights about earth so that organizations can make decisions. The Company builds, owns, and operates a fully deployed satellite constellation that observes the earth in real time using radio frequency technology. The data acquired by its satellites provides global weather intelligence, plane movements, and spoofing and jamming detection to better predict how their patterns impact economies, global security, business operations and the environment. It also offers space as a service solution that empowers customers to leverage its infrastructure to put their business in space. It provides customers these solutions through an application programming interface infrastructure. It also offers research and development services to third parties, for the advancement of contracted satellite technologies. It has a presence in the United States, Canada, Luxembourg, and others.

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is an aerospace and space travel company, which offers access to space for private individuals, researchers, and government agencies. The Company’s operations include design and development, manufacturing, ground and flight testing, and post-flight maintenance of its spaceflight system vehicles. The Company has developed a portfolio of proprietary technologies that are embodied in the specialized vehicles that it has created to enable commercial spaceflight. These technologies underpin its carrier aircraft, the mothership; its spaceships; its hybrid rocket motor; and its safety systems. Its Carrier Aircraft-The mothership is a twin-fuselage, custom-built aircraft designed to carry spaceships up to an altitude of approximately 45,000 feet, where the spaceship is released for its flight into space. Its Virgin Galactic spaceships are reusable with the capacity to carry pilots and private astronauts, research experiments and researchers.