The engineering that turns a mission objective into a flight-credible, licensable vehicle — architecture design, trade-off, mission analysis and flight-safety analysis. Powered by CONVERj, our in-house trade-study engine.
Concept design, requirements flow-down and multi-architecture trade studies — a single, flight-credible description of the vehicle, with every option ranked on the KPIs that matter. Delivered on CONVERj.
We capture the mission requirements and build the architecture as a structured model — one description of the vehicle that every discipline reads and writes, so there is no drift between requirements, analysis and product tree. From that baseline we run the model chain across every variant of interest — propellant, staging, engine count, bus size — and hand back ranked KPIs and convergence reports. Trade studies in minutes, not weeks — delivered on CONVERj, and handed back to your team.
Trajectory and performance analysis for launch and in-orbit missions — powered ascent, orbit design and manoeuvres, with Δv budgets, ground tracks and timelines straight from the simulation.
We fly the vehicle and the mission, not just budget them. A 3DOF ascent is propagated to orbit with launch azimuth solved to hit the target inclination; on orbit, we analyse the trajectories, manoeuvres and coverage the mission needs. Δv and losses are computed from the simulation, not fixed factors.
Quantitative risk assessment and safety-case support for launch operators and spaceports — the analysis regulators need to grant a licence.
We support customers to build their own safety cases and perform the quantitative risk assessment behind them — casualty expectation and risk contours computed from optimised trajectories and Monte Carlo dispersion, to the standard licensing authorities expect.
We support your team in building and structuring the safety case regulators require.
Casualty expectation and risk contours from optimised trajectories and Monte Carlo dispersion — delivered end-to-end with a specialist analysis partner.
Explosion, debris and overpressure footprints — the physics behind exclusion zones.
Flight-corridor and containment analysis for launch sites and spaceport operations.
Worked example: a frame-by-frame forensic blast analysis of the New Glenn NG-4 explosion — the same hazard and overpressure analysis we bring to real launch and spaceport programmes.
Read the NG-4 case study →Independent technical due diligence and design governance — the objective assessment investors, primes and agencies need, from a team that has built and flown real launch systems.
We provide independent technical due diligence and design governance for investors, primes and agencies — an objective read on feasibility, maturity and risk. Our independence, and hands-on launch-vehicle and satellite experience, mean the assessment holds up under scrutiny.
Feasibility, maturity and risk assessment for investment and programme decisions.
PDR / CDR-style reviews against a flight-credible baseline — an outside view with teeth.
Requirements management, verification governance and review-gate support.
Judgement grounded in real launch-vehicle and satellite programmes — Orbex, Avio, DLR.
Our in-house trade-study engine: one model of the vehicle, coupled subsystem models, ranked KPIs across every variant — from the first trade study to the production baseline. Now becoming a standalone product.
A frame-by-frame forensic blast analysis of the New Glenn NG-4 explosion — the same hazard and overpressure work behind real range-safety cases.
Read the NG-4 case study →
on your mission architecture.Every engagement is scoped and priced individually — from a single trade study or safety case to an embedded mission-engineering team. Tell us what you’re flying and we’ll shape it around your programme.