Primary stakeholders in the work of CCSDS are:

• “Space Mission” organizations that directly execute scientific and applications space missions or “Space Mission Support Infrastructure Provider” organizations that design, operate, and maintain the worldwide tracking, data acquisition, mission control, data processing, and data archiving networks that are exposed to Space Mission organizations for the purposes of cross support;
• “Space Data User” organizations representing the utilization community who consume the information generated by the Space Mission.