Andrew Maximov

Over the last five years, we have been meticulously collecting, analyzing, and normalizing everything we learned from working on more than 100 successful space missions. Our key insight is that the end-user business objectives of a space mission can be decomposed into mission requirements using a common syntax. These requirements are easily translated into task orders for space industry contractors and regulators. We developed this translation layer for seamless movement of data and actions across teams. This common syntax captured in our translation layer will increase the ultimate volume and velocity of satellite missions across the entire space industry. It takes 4-years and $8 million today, on average, to launch a space mission, setting aside proof of concept or test missions with limited usefulness. We believe that we can reduce that time to 6-months, and we can do it for ¼ the cost. By abstracting away from the requirements and delivering a normalized task list for mission operators, we are liberating essential engineering time to work on what really matters: perfecting the precious payload — aka, the key competitive advantage — and optimizing the business model to deliver maximum value.