Member Agencies
There are eleven space agencies with full voting membership in the CCSDS. At the CCSDS' bi-annual meetings, the week-long working committee meetings are followed by a general meeting where the member agencies vote to approve the committees' recommendations and direct the other business of the organization. These agencies and the nations they represent are:
- Brazil – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
- Canada – Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- China – China National Space Administration (CNSA)
- European Union – European Space Agency (ESA)
- France – Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Germany – Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)
- Italy – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
- Japan – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Russia – Russian Federal Space Agency (RFSA)
- United Kingdom – UK Space Agency (UKSA)
- United States of America – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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