List of government space agencies
This is a list of government agencies engaged in activities related to outer space and space exploration.
As of 2018, 72 different government space agencies are in existence; 14 of those have launch capability. Six government space agencies—the China National Space Administration, the European Space Agency, the Indian Space Research Organization, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Russian Federal Space Agency —have full launch capabilities; these include the ability to launch and recover multiple satellites, deploy cryogenic rocket engines and operate space probes.
The name given is the English version, with the native language version below. The acronym given is the most common acronym: this can either be the acronym of the English version, or the acronym in the native language. Where there are multiple acronyms in common use, the English one is given first.
The date of the founding of the space agency is the date of first operations where applicable. If the space agency is no longer running, then the date when it was terminated is given. A link to the Agency's primary website is also given.
List of space agencies
; The capabilities of the space agencies are color-coded as follows:List of space agencies with launch capability
List of space agencies with human spaceflight capability
List of space agencies with lunar landing capability
Expected and proposed future space agencies
Budgets
The annual budgets listed are the official budgets for national space agencies available in public domain. The budgets are not normalized to the expenses of space research in different countries, i.e. higher budget does not necessarily mean more activity or better performance in space exploration. Budget could be used for different projects: e.g. GPS is maintained from the US defence budget, whereas ESA's money is used for developing the European Galileo positioning system. The data for authoritarian countries are unreliable. For European contributors to ESA, the national budgets shown include also their contributions to ESA.| Country/ region | Agency | Budget | Reference | Year |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 22,629 | 2020 | ||
| China National Space Administration | 11,000 | 2018 | ||
| European Space Agency | 7,430 | 2020 | ||
| German Aerospace Center | 4,233 | 2017 | ||
| French Space Agency | 3,024 | 2020 | ||
| Russian Federal Space Agency | 2,530 | 2020 | ||
| Indian Space Research Organisation | 1,900 | 2020 | ||
| Italian Space Agency | 1,800 | 2016 | ||
| Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | 1,699 | 2017 | ||
| Korea Aerospace Research Institute | 583 | 2016 | ||
| UK Space Agency | 500 | 2017 | ||
| Iranian Space Agency and Iranian Space Research Center | 393 | 2018-19 | ||
| Algerian Space Agency | 360 | 2015 | ||
| Canadian Space Agency | 246 | 2018 | ||
| Interfederal Space Agency of Belgium | 224 | 2018 | ||
| Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial | 211 | 2018 | ||
| Swiss Space Office | 177 | 2019 | ||
| Netherlands Space Office | 110 | 2013 | ||
| Swedish National Space Agency | 100 | 2011 | ||
| Norwegian Space Agency | 97 | 2014 | ||
| State Space Agency of Ukraine | 80 | |||
| Austrian Space Agency | 75 | 2018 | ||
| 61.5 | ] | 2019-2021 | ||
| Brazilian Space Agency | 47 | 2018 | ||
| Israel Space Agency | 14.5 | 2019 | ||
| Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales | 45 | 2019 | ||
| Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission | 45 | 2018-19 | ||
| Philippine Space Agency | 38 | 2019 | ||
| National Space Research and Development Agency | 32.3 | 2019 | ||
| South African National Space Agency | 11.8 | 2014-15 | ||
| Mexican Space Agency | 8.34 | 2010 | ||
| Australian Space Agency | 32 | 2019 | ||
| Turkish Space Agency | 4.3 | 2019 | ||
| World | All space agencies | About 60,482 |