The aerospace industry encompasses companies and individuals involved in designing, building, testing, selling and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets or spacecraft. It is considered a high technology industry, drawing on advanced engineering and materials science, and includes both commercial aviation manufacturers and defense contractors producing military and space systems. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Major defense contractors build both military aircraft and civil aerospace products; the arms and aerospace industries substantially overlap.
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Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and serves as its chief executive officer and chief engineer, building it into a leading aerospace and launch company.
The space industry is classified alongside aerospace as one heavy-industry category and historically grew out of it.
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A major aerospace manufacturer; classified in the atlas aerospace-industry.
A major aerospace manufacturer; classified in the atlas aerospace-industry.
A major aerospace manufacturer; classified in the atlas aerospace-industry.
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Aerospace is a high technology industry.
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In 2015 the aircraft production was worth US$180.3 billion: 61% airliners, 14% business and general aviation, 12% military aircraft, 10% military rotary wing and 3% civil rotary wing; while their MRO was worth $135.1 Bn or $315.4 Bn combined.
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American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.
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Encompassing military aircraft (both land-based and naval aviation), conventional missiles, and military satellites, this is the most technologically advanced sector of the market.
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Aerospace & space, listed together under Other heavy vehicles in the Heavy industry classification.
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industry (P452) target Q936518, matched to the live industry entity "Aerospace Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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What does the aerospace industry cover?
Designing, building, testing, selling and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets and spacecraft.
The aerospace industry covers companies and individuals that design, build, test, sell and maintain aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets and spacecraft. It is considered a high technology industry, drawing on advanced engineering.
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