• Comision Nacional de Activadades Espaciales - CONAE (Argentinian National Space Activities Commission)
• Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE)

• Australian Government Space Portal
• CANGAROO (Collaboration between Australia and Nippon for a Gamma Ray Observatory in the Outback) Project in High Energy Astrophysics

• Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO) Space Research and Applications Directorate

• Agencia Espacial Brasileira - AEB (Brazilian Space Agency)

• University of Calgary
  • Space Astronomy Laboratory
• Canadian Space Agency - CSA

• China National Space Administration - CNSA
• Institute of High-Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yangbajing (YBJ) International Cosmic-Ray Observatory

• National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU Space
  • INTEGRAL, and
  • NuSTAR

• Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales - CNES (French Space Agency)
  • International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) Program
  • XMM-Newton Program

• Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR (German Aerospace Center)
• HEGRA (High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy) atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope system
• Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
• Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Muenchen)
  • High-Energy Astrophysics Group
    • MPE Chandra Project
    • MPE eROSITA Project
    • MPE Fermi GBM Project
    • MPE INTEGRAL Project
    • MPE ROSAT Project
    • MPE XMM-Newton Project

• Indian Space Research Organization - ISRO
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
  • Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
    • X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy at TIFR

• Iranian Space Agency - ISA

• Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - ASI (Italian Space Agency)
• (Beppo-) SAX Science Data Center , Frascati
• Istituto di Astrofizica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Sezione di Bologna (IASF-Bologna), formerly TESRE, CNR, Bologna
  • including groups for
    AGILE,
    Athena,
    INTEGRAL,
    LOFT,
    XMM-Newton.
    
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
  • Cherenkov Telescope Array
  • MAGIC Telescopes
  • Rapid Eye Mount (REM) Project
  • Swift
• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), formerly Istituto di Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie Relative (IFCTR) , CNR, Milan
  • including groups for
    AGILE,
    AGN,
    BAT Survey,
    CdZnTe,
    Gamma-ray bursts,
    INTEGRAL,
    Isolated pulsars,
    JEM-EUSO,
    SFXTs,
    Swift.
    
• Istituto di Astrofizica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Sezione di Palermo (IASF-Palermo), formerly IFCAI (Istituto di Fisica Cosmica ed Applicazioni all'Informatica) , CNR, Palermo
  • including groups for
    AGILE,
    Fermi,
    Gamma-ray bursts,
    Isolated neutron stars,
    X-ray binaries,
    X-ray clusters.
    
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo

• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - JAXA, incorporating
  • ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), Tokyo and its
    • X-ray Astronomy Group:
      • ASCA project information,
      • Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-E2) project information, and
      • Ginga project information.
• Univ. Kyoto , Dept.of Physics, Cosmic-Ray Group
• Univ. Nagoya, X-Ray Astronomy Group
• RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) , Wako
• CANGAROO (Collaboration of Australia and Nippon for a Gamma-Ray Observatory in the Outback)
• Univ. Tokyo , Institute of Astronomy

• Dept. of Astronomy & Space Science, Chungbuk National University
• High Energy Astrophysics Laboratory, Chungnam National University
• Korea Aerospace Research Institute - KARI

• Agencia Espacial Mexicana - AEM (Mexican Space Agency)

• European Space Agency - ESA
  • European Space Operations Center (ESOC)
  • European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)
  • ESA Virtual Observatory Portal/European Space Astronomy Center
    
  • European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)
    
  • Space Science
    
    • COS-B,
    • EXOSAT,
    • Integral,
    • LISA,
    • LISA Pathfinder, and
    • XMM-Newton.
  • Research and Scientific Support Department
    
  • Science Operations and Data Systems Division
    
  • Payloads and Advanced Concepts

• Space Research Organization Netherlands - SRON
  • Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETG), BeppoSAX Wide Field Camera (WFC), and XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS)

• (Pakistani) Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission - SUPARCO

• Centrum Badan Kosmicznych: the (Polish) Space Research Centre - SRC
• Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre (Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikolaja Kopernika - CAMK)

• High Energy Astrophysics Department at The Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
  • MIR-KVANT project
    
  • GRANAT project
    
  • Spectrum-X-Gamma project
    
• ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federal Space Agency)
• Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow
  • Relativistic Astrophysics Department

• Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial - INTA (Spanish National Institute of Aerospace Technology)

• NORDITA (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics), Stockholm
  • Astrophysics and Astrobiology and
  • Subatomic Physics (includes Cosmology and Black Holes groups
  Swedish National Space Board - SNSB
• Uppsala University Astronomy and Space Physics group

• Center for Astroparticle Physics (CAP), Geneva
• ISDC Data Center for Astrophysics, Geneva
  • Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
  • European Astro-H Science Support Center
  • First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT)
  • INTEGRAL Science Data Center
  • Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)
  • POLAR GRB Polarimeter Project
• Swiss Space Office (SSO) of the State Secretariat for Education and Research

• Univ. Birmingham, Astrophysics & Space Research Group
• Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (UK), X-ray Group
• Univ. Leeds, School of Physics & Astronomy
  • Astrophysics Group
    • Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
    • Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy .
• Univ. Leicester, Department of Physics & Astronomy
  • Space Research Centre (SRC)
  • X-Ray and Observational Astronomy Group
    • Leicester Database & Archive Service (LEDAS)
    • UK Swift Science Data Centre
    • XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre
• Univ. College London (UCL)
  • Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
• Department of Physical Sciences (DPS), The Open University
• Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
  • Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii
    • Starlink Project (now maintained by the East Asian Observatory)
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
  • RAL Space
• Royal Astronomical Society
  • information on upcoming meetings and job vacancies
• Univ. Southampton, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• UK Space Agency - UKSA

• State Space Agency of Ukraine - SSAU

• American Astronomical Society
  • AAS Job Register
  • High Energy Astrophysics Division
• University of California, Berkeley
  • Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) Project
  • Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL)
• University of California, Los Angeles
  • Astroparticle Physics Group
    • Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment(STACEE) : a ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics experiment)
• University of California, San Diego
  • Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS)
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  • High Energy Astrophysics Group
    • Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
• University of Chicago
  • High Energy Physics group whose projects include the Chicago Air Shower Array (CASA), a ground-based ultra-high energy cosmic ray and gamma-ray experiment that operated from 1990-1998), and participation in the Auger Project , an international facility to study the highest energy cosmic rays.
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA)
  • High Energy Astrophysics Division
    • Chandra X-Ray Center
• Iowa State University (ISU)
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
    • Gamma-Ray Astronomy Group at ISU
• Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
    • Center for Astrophysical Sciences (CAS)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
  • Physics and Advanced Technologies (PAT)
    • PAT High Energy Density Physics (V Division)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  • Center for Space Science and Exploration
• University of Maryland
  • Baltimore County
    • Joint Center for Astrophysics (JCA)
  • College Park
    • Department of Astronomy
      • Extragalactic Astronomy Group
      • Space and Plasma Physics group
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT)
  • MIT Center for Space Research
    • Chandra/ACIS project
    • Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) project
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA
  • Science Mission Directorate
    • Astrophysics Division
      • Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) Program
      • Cosmic Origins Program
• NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  • Science and Exploration Directorate
    • Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO, Code 630)
      • National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC, Code 633)
    • Astrophysics Science Division (ASD, Code 660)
      • HEASARC Office (Code 660.1)
        • ASCA Guest Observer Facility
          
        • Astro-H Home
          
        • BeppoSAX U.S. Coordination Facility
          
        • Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) Science Support Center
          
        • Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Science Archive
          
        • Fermi (formerly GLAST) Science Support Center
          
        • Gravity amd Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) Home
          
        • High Energy Astrophysics Science Archival Research Center (HEASARC)
          
        • High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) Archive
          
        • International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) Guest Observer Facility
          
        • Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA)
          
        • Rontgen Satellite (ROSAT) Guest Observer Facility
          
        • Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) Guest Observer Facility
          
        • Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-E2) Guest Observer Facility
          
        • Swift Science Support Center
          
        • XMM-Newton Guest Observer Facility
      • Office of Scientific Computing (Code 660.2)
        
      • Instrument Development Group (Code 660.3)
        
      • Astroparticle Physics Laboratory (Code 661)
        
      • X-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 662)
        
      • Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 663)
        
        • Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Sources Archive
          
      • Observational Cosmology Laboratory (Code 665)
        
      • ExoPlanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 667)
        
• NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
  • Physics & Astronomy Division
    • Gamma-ray Astrophysics Branch)
      
      • BATSE (Burst & Transient Source Experiment)
        
      • GLAST (Gamma-Ray Large-Area Space Telescope) Burst Monitor
        
    • X-ray Astronomy Group
      
    • Chandra Project Science
• Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
  • X-ray/UV Astrophysics and Applications Section (Code 7655)
  • Gamma and Cosmic-Ray Astrophysics Branch (Code 7650)
    • OSSE preprint library
    • Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Calorimeter group
• University of New Hampshire
  • High Energy Astrophysics Group
    • COMPTEL (Imaging Compton Telescope aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory)
• Northwestern University
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Pennsylvania State University
  • Dept. Astronomy & Astrophysics
    • Chandra/ACIS instrument
    • SAC-B/CUBIC instrument
• Purdue University
  • Purdue University High Energy Astrophysics Program (HEAp)
• Stanford University
  • Astronomy Program
    • Astro-Gamma Group
    • Gamma-Ray Large-Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT)
    • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC)
  • Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Washington University in St. Louis
  • McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences

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