5 - 7 October 2010, Hilton Hotel, Tokyo, Japan 

   APSCC2010 Satellite Conference and Exhibition

 Sponsors

APSCC 2010 Sponsors

Arianespace is the world’s leading launch Service & Solutions company, providing innovation to its customers since 1980. Backed by 24 shareholders and the European Space Agency, Arianespace offers an unrivalled family of launchers, comprising Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega, and an international workforce renowned for a culture of commitment and excellence. As of 04 August 2010, Arianespace had launched a total of 283 payloads, including more than half of all the commercial satellites now in service worldwide. It has a backlog of 23 Ariane 5 and 17 Soyuz launches, equal to more than three years of business.

Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems (S&IS), headquartered in Seal Beach, Calif., is the company's center for all intelligence systems and government/commercial satellite systems. S&IS offers end-to-end intelligence services and has competency in large-scale systems integration; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; and navigation and communication systems. The world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, was built by Boeing and launched in 1963. Today, nearly half of the 290 commercial satellites in orbit worldwide were built by Boeing at its Satellite Development Center in El Segundo, Calif., the site of the world’s largest satellite manufacturing factory.

COMSAT Technical Services (CTS) is a premier provider of satellite services specializing in: Satellite planning, including architecture design, RFP and Specification creation, evaluation of satellite manufacturer’s proposals, and satellite construction monitoring; Satellite fleet management, including satellite life extension, insurance support, anomaly resolution, and general in-orbit technical support. Our proprietary Propellant Gauging System (PGS) provides end-of-life propellant estimation.  Our renowned Space Battery Laboratory is pre-eminent in developing and testing spacecraft batteries, particularly Nickel Hydride and Lithium Ion batteries.

Integral Systems is a leader in the secure management, delivery and distribution of data and information from space and terrestrial-based platforms into networks for military, government and commercial satellite and aerospace customers. Integral Systems’ expert teams design and deliver innovative solutions combining customized products and services to address the specific needs of Integral Systems’ partners, across any platform and any technology necessary to meet the customer’s needs.

Integral Systems and its subsidiaries, SAT Corporation, Newpoint Technologies, RT Logic, Lumistar, Integral Systems Service Solutions, and Integral Systems SATCOM Solutions (formerly CVG-Avtec) provide product-based solutions and systems that cost effectively address the ground system needs of commercial and military satellite and range operators, service providers and end users alike.

Cost-effective solutions, proven capabilities, and highly flexible, open products are just a few reasons why Integral Systems has the largest customer base in the industry.

As the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor, Marsh is devoted to finding the opportunity in risk. From risk identification and assessment, to quantification and prioritisation, to risk mitigation and financing — our approach lies at the core of a truly differentiated client experience.

The Space Projects team of Marsh deliver exceptional client value and innovative and cost effective risk management solutions by capitalising on our global reach, market expertise and a multi-disciplined team of risk management experts. Marsh has been transacting space business in Asia for over 30 years and has maintained specialist representation here for 14 years.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment with over 85 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products to both corporate clients and general consumers all over the world. For space systems, capabilities of MELCO cover development and manufacturing of commercial and institutional spacecraft, satellite onboard equipment, and ground systems. Over the past four decades, MELCO has more than 400 satellite project heritage for international, governmental and institutional customers, which make us leading company of space systems manufacturer in Japan.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has grown into a modern Japanese industrial pioneer during more than a century of operation. MHI currently provides a broad range of products and services based on technical capabilities it had developed in areas including shipbuilding, steel structures, power systems, air conditioners, machinery for general use and aerospace systems.

In the space systems area, MHI has over 35 years of experience in developing launch vehicles and space propulsion systems. MHI will do its best to provide the most advanced launch services to worldwide customers by using highly reliable and cost-effective H-IIA launch systems.

We express our value to society through our CI (Corporate Identity) statement, "Our Technologies, Your Tomorrow." This statement proclaims MHI's strong intention to "continuously provide an assured future where people can live safe, secure and enriched lives through technologies that can excite people and passion as a manufacturer for the sustainability of the earth and humankind."

Orbital Sciences Corporation provides innovative, reliable, and cost-effective products for commercial, civil, and national security applications. Orbital is a leading provider of small to medium class Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) communications satellites (2KW – 7.5KW). With 31 satellites delivered or in production since 1997, the leading satellite communications service providers rely on Orbital’s flight-proven STAR satellites for their critical missions.

In addition, Orbital is a leading provider of spacecraft for earth and space sciences, national security and planetary exploration. Orbital also provides small- and medium-class launch vehicles for boosting satellites into orbit, interceptor booster vehicles to protect against enemy ballistic missile attack, and target rockets to test missile defense systems. Orbital is also playing a significant role in NASA’s next-generation human spaceflight systems developing a new system to provide cargo resupply services to the International Space Station.

Always innovating with an eye to the future.

SKY Perfect JSAT is Asia's leading satellite operator. With 14 satellites covering Japan, Asia, Oceania and North America, we play an important role in fields as diverse as multi-channel pay TV, SNG, internet backbone, cellular backhaul, maritime and disaster recovery services. We are also committed to enhancement of our experience and technology to promote not only broadcasting and communication services but also other business fields based on The Basic Space Law in Japan. We will continually use new and creative ways to aggressively expand our global reach and even beyond.

Located in Palo Alto, California, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has a long history of delivering reliable satellites and spacecraft systems for commercial and government customers around the world. The company designs, builds and integrates some of the world’s largest and most powerful commercial satellites and spacecraft systems. SS/L has an international base of customers whose applications include fixed satellite services, broadband digital communications, wireless telephony, direct-to-home television broadcast, video and radio broadcasting, environmental monitoring, and air traffic control. SS/L has delivered more than 230 satellites and its modular 1300 spacecraft bus enables incremental changes to carefully incorporate new technologies.  The company’s satellites have more than 27,000 transponder years of on-orbit service logged, with approximately one third of this service coming from satellites operating longer than their contracted design life.  Billions of people around the world depend on SS/L satellites every day. SS/L is a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ:LORL).

SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles and spacecraft intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of both manned and unmanned space transportation, ultimately by a factor of ten. With the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 vehicles, SpaceX offers highly reliable/cost-efficient launch capabilities for spacecraft insertion into any orbital altitude and inclination.

Founded in 2002, SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The SpaceX team now numbers more than 1100, with corporate headquarters in Hawthorne, California. For more information, please visit www.spacex.com.

European leader in satellite systems and a major player in orbital infrastructures, Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Finmeccanica (33 %). Along with Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space forms a space alliance between the two groups. The company today has affirmed itself as a global reference in the areas of telecommunications, radar and optical observation of the Earth, defence and security, navigation and sciences. Thales Alenia Space employs 7200 people on 11 industrial sites in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium.