Observer Agencies
Australian Space Office (ASO)/Australia.
Austrian Space Agency (ASA)/Austria.
Belgian Science Policy Office (SPO)/Belgium.
Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial (CTA)/Brazil.
Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST)/China.
Communications Research Laboratory (CRL)/Japan.
Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI)/Denmark.
European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological
    Satellites (EUMETSAT)/Europe.
European Telecommunications Satellite Organization
   (EUTELSAT)/Europe.
Hellenic National Space Committee (HNSC)/Greece.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)/India.
Industry Canada/Communications Research Centre (CRC)/Canada.
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)/Japan.
Institute of Space Research (IKI)/Russian Federation.
KFKI Research Institute for Particle & Nuclear Physics (KFKI)/Hungary.
MIKOMTEK: CSIR (CSIR)/Republic of South Africa.
Ministry of Communications (MOC)/Israel.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/USA.
National Space Program Office (NSPO)/Taiwan.
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)/Sweden.
United States Geological Survey (USGS)/USA.
Member Agencies
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)/Italy.
British National Space Centre (BNSC)/United Kingdom.
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)/Canada.
Central Research Institute of Machine Building
   (TsNIIMash)/Russian Federation.
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/France.
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)/Germany.
European Space Agency (ESA)/Europe.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)/Brazil.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA HQ)/USA.
National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)/Japan.
The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) is an international voluntary consensus organization of space agencies and industrial associates interested in mutually developing standard data handling techniques to support space research, including space science and applications
Initial focus:
space/ground
data link protocols
Recent focus:
space networking
http://www.ccsds.org
http://www.scps.org
Clay Frost, MSNBC