The date of the founding of the space agency is the date of first operations where possible. If the space agency is no longer running, then the date when it was terminated (i.e. the last day of operations) is given. A link to the Agency's primary website is also given.
The budgets listed are the official budgets from the different space agencies' homepages. Note that the Chinese budget of $500 million is from official figures by Luo Ge, vice administrator of the China National Space Administration. The budget is not normalized to the expenses of space research in each country/region, i.e. higher budget does not mean more activity or better performance in space exploration.
Country |
Agency |
Budget
(USD) |
United States |
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) |
$18 100 million |
|
ESA (European Space Agency) |
$5 030 million |
France |
CNES (French Space Agency) |
$2 490 million |
Russia |
RKA (Russian Federal Space Agency) |
$2 215 million |
Japan |
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) |
$2 100 million |
Germany |
DLR (German Aerospace Center) |
$1 821 million |
Italy |
ASI (Italian Space Agency) |
$1 550 million |
India |
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) |
$1 300 million |
China |
CNSA (China National Space Administration) |
$500 million |
United Kingdom |
BNSC (British National Space Centre) |
$414 million |
Iran |
ISA (Iranian Space Agency) |
$400 million |
Canada |
CSA (Canadian Space Agency) |
$321 million |
Brazil |
AEB (Brazilian Space Agency) |
$294 million |
Ukraine |
NSAU (National Space Agency of Ukraine) |
$250 million |
Belgium |
BISA (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy) |
$230 million |
Spain |
INTA (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial) |
$175 million |
Netherlands |
SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research) |
$160 million |
South Korea |
KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) |
$150 million |
Switzerland |
SSO (Swiss Space Office) |
$110 million |
Sweden |
SNSB (Swedish National Space Board) |
$100 million |
Entire World |
All space agencies (Total of listed budgets) |
$44 400 million |