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A Virtual Space Agency (VSA for short) is an agency set up to fly missions in [[Orbiter]], often cooperative between multiple members.
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A Virtual Space Agency (VSA for short) is an agency set up to fly missions in [[Orbiter]].
  
==Classification of VSAs==
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== See Also ==
===Recruitment===
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[[List of active VSAs]]
Closed VSAs are not accepting new members by any application mechanism. They can be just a single person VSA, but this is not always the case.
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[[List of defunct VSAs]]
 
 
Open VSAs are projects accepting new members. although some VSAs are permanently open, many often stage recruiting drives on the Orbiter Forums for new members.
 
 
 
===Activity states===
 
 
 
Active VSAs are currently in the process of flying or planning missions. Since planning a complex mission can take a few many weeks, this is not inactivity. Active VSAs can also have a few months of inactivity because of the evil real life, without really being an inactive VSA in the sense of no activity being planned.
 
 
 
Inactive VSAs are VSAs that have no activity scheduled at all. They are simply dead, or just pausing for indefinite time. In the most extreme case, they are completely abandoned, having not even somebody answering the emails for them.
 
 
 
Abandoned VSA can also appear, when two VSAs join under a new name or the concept of an old VSA being buried and a completely new program with new character is started under a new name.
 
 
 
==Active VSAs==
 
 
 
{|class="sortable wikitable"
 
!Name
 
!Abbreviation
 
!Founder
 
!Type
 
!Number of members
 
!class="unsortable"|Homepage
 
!class="unsortable"|Description
 
|-
 
|Anshar Orbital Industries
 
|AOI
 
|Kaito
 
|Unknown
 
|Unknown
 
|[http://aoi.gdwnet.com/ AOI]
 
|
 
|-
 
|British Institute of Space Research
 
|BISR
 
|R.Watson
 
|Open
 
|2(Open For Application)
 
|_Site under development_
 
|Please contact R.Watson at reissswatson@gmail.com for further information.  (We are currently open to applications.)
 
|-
 
|International Space Agency
 
|ISA
 
|garyw
 
|Closed
 
|1
 
|[http://isa.gdwnet.com ISA]
 
|Does not accept other members because the benevolent dictator of the VSA has no resources for managing them. Despite this it is one of the most active VSAs, as of November 2011.
 
|-
 
|Soviet Space Agency
 
|SSA
 
|Scruce
 
|Closed
 
|1
 
|n/a
 
|SSA uses the Orbiter-Forum blogs, but will soon have a website.
 
SSA is a closed VSA that has been running since the 15th of November 2011. Its aim is to simulate Soviet and Russian spaceflight during the dawn of the [[Space Race]] and beyond, up to the [[Moon]] and eventual [[Mars]] landings.
 
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|Aeronautics and Space Technologies/The Orbital Initiative Program
 
|AST/OIP
 
|mojoey
 
|Closed
 
|1
 
|n/a
 
|The OIP/AST is a VSA that simulates efforts to establish a manned colony on Mars. Currently planning first lunar mission
 
|-
 
|Union Space Command
 
|USC
 
|Eli13
 
|Unknown
 
|4
 
|[http://www.unionspacecommand.webs.com/ Union Space Command]
 
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|-
 
|High Apoapsis Space Station Experimental Space Agency
 
|HASSESA
 
|Samuel Edwards
 
|Closed
 
|1
 
|n/a
 
|HASSESA specializes in space station research, space station construction and Sattelite production/launches. The founder has stated on multiple occasions that his goal is "To expand man's boundaries" and to go "To the moon and beyond!"
 
|-
 
|Space Universal VSA
 
|SU-VSA
 
|HAL9001
 
|Unknown
 
|2
 
|[http://www.suvsa.freeforums.org SUVSA]
 
|Status not known - no update since 14th September 2011
 
|-
 
|Phantom Manufacturing
 
|Phantom MFG
 
|PhantomCruiser
 
|Closed
 
|1
 
|n/a
 
|Conceived initially for construction of a moon base, then delved into other projects based on coolness factor over practicality.  This is primarily possible due to the deep pockets and networking ability of the VSA leadership.  Currently headquartered at CSCC, with satellite offices at Wideawake, SRC Polygon, Canaveral and Matagorda Island.
 
|}
 
 
 
==Abandoned VSAs==
 
 
 
{|class="sortable wikitable"
 
!Name
 
!Abbreviation
 
!Founder
 
!Type
 
!Number of members
 
!class="unsortable"|Homepage
 
!class="unsortable"|Description
 
|-
 
|Ascension Space Agency
 
|ASA
 
|Kevin580
 
|Unknown
 
|Unknown
 
|n/a
 
|
 
|-
 
|High Altitude Space Agency
 
|HASA
 
|IronRain
 
|Unknown
 
|Unknown
 
|n/a
 
|
 
|-
 
|International Space Colonization and Exploration group
 
|ISCEG
 
|mojoey
 
|Unknown
 
|Unknown
 
|n/a
 
|failed due to lack of interest
 
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|Virtual Online Spaceflight Simulation Agency
 
|VOSSA
 
|EricEvan
 
|Unknown
 
| >5
 
|[http://www.azrockets.org/vossa VOSSA]
 
|EricEvan has indicated his desire to start up a new VSA [http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=315165]
 
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|Unknown
 
|VASO
 
|fireballs619
 
|Unknown
 
|Unknown
 
|n/a
 
|
 
|-
 
|World Space Agency
 
|WSA
 
|Scruce
 
|Closed
 
|1
 
|n/a
 
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|}
 
 
 
==See also==
 
[[Orbiter-Forum Collective Projects]]
 
 
 
[[Category: Articles]]
 
[[Category: Aerospace agency]]
 

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