We can manage and support all aspects of spacecraft procurement – from the development of the business case, all the way through to handover of the asset in orbit to your operations team, or to ours if you would like us to fly your spacecraft for you.

The process of procuring a spacecraft for replacement of in-orbit capacity typically occurs several years prior to the existing spacecraft’s end of life. This allows time to procure a spacecraft, but also allows for a potential launch failure scenario, with enough time to build and test another replacement spacecraft (and relaunch the replacement spacecraft) in time.

Before the launch can occur, the spacecraft also goes through a rigorous testing phase/campaign to ensure that all subsystems work to the specified performance requirements, and that everything is operational.