Top ten space agency in the world ?

 1. National Aeronautics and space administration ( NASA) 

Formed :     July 29 , 1958

Annual Budget : $ 22.6 billion 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

It is of great urgency and importance to our country both from consideration of our prestige as a nation as well as military necessity that this challenge [sputnik] be met by an energetic program of research and development for the conquest of space ... It is accordingly proposed that the scientific research be the responsibility of a national civilian agency ... NASA is capable, by rapid extension and expansion of its effort, of providing leadership in space technology .....

2. China National Space administration (CNSA) 

Formed : 23 April, 1993

Annual budget : $11 billion 

China National Space Administration is the national space agency of China responsible for the national space program and for planning and development of space activities. 

Its headquarters are in Beijing. The CNSA operates three launch facilities: Jiuquan, in Gansu province; Taiyuan, in Shanxi province; and Xichang, in Sichuan province.

3. European Space agency (ESA)

Formed: 30 may , 1975

Annual budget : €6.68 billion

The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organization of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,200 in 2018 and an annual budget of about €6.68 billion in 2020.

SA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

4. Russian Federal Space agency ( Roscosmos)

Formed : 25 February , 1992

Annual Budget : $2.77 billion 

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research. 

It initially began as the Russian Space Agency, which was established on February 25, 1992 and restructured in 1999 and 2004, as the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), respectively.

5. Indian space Research organisation ( ISRO)

Formed : 15 August , 1969

Annual budget: $2.0 billion 

The Indian Space Research Organisation or is the national space agency of the Republic of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under Department of Space which is directly overseen by the prime minister of India while chairman of ISRO acts as executive of DOS as well.

The agency maintains a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites (INSAT) and remote sensing satellites (IRS) that fulfill the nation’s growing demand for telecommunication and Earth observation respectively.

 

6. Spacex

Formed : 6 may , 2002

Revenue : 200 crore USD

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars

The company has achieved several milestones that no other private space agency has managed to do so far:

• First privately funded liquid propellant rocket (Falcon 1) reached orbit in 2008
• First private company to send spacecraft to the ISS (Dragon in 2012)
• First propulsive landing for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015)
• First successful reuse of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017)

7. Japan Aerospace Exploration (JAXA)

Formed :  1 October 2003

Annual Budget : $2 billion

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003

8. German Aerospace center (DLR)

Formed : 1959

Annual  Budget  : 381.6 crores EUR (2017)

The German Aerospace Center, abbreviated DLR, is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany. Its headquarters are located in Cologne and it has multiple other locations throughout Germany.

9. Italian space Agency (ASI)

formed : 1 January 1988

Annual Budget :  €2.0 billion ($2.1 billion) in 2020

The Italian Space Agency is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy. The agency cooperates with numerous national and international entities who are active in aerospace research and technology

10.  National center for space studies (France)

Formed :  19 December 1961

Annual budget :  €2.780 billion (2020)

The National Centre for Space Studies is the French government space agency. Its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is under the supervision of the French Ministries of Defence and Research.