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Science
The 11 Space Agencies Expanding Our Horizon
The organizations advancing exploration, observation, and our understanding of the universe.
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This ranking is illustrative. The eleven entries are real, but the order they appear in was not produced by testing, scoring, voting or measurement of any kind, and Top11 publishes no scores, view counts or reach figures because it has never recorded any.
The short answer
The best agencies combine craft with lasting influence.
The Top11 index
The complete ranking.
- #2
European Space Agency
- #3
JAXA
- #4
ISRO
- #5
CNSA
- #6
Canadian Space Agency
- #7
CNES
- #8
DLR
- #9
Italian Space Agency
- #10
Korea AeroSpace Administration
- #11
UK Space Agency
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