Optimizing trade studies with satsearch

As you know, good trade studies are the backbone of serious space missions. They bring a range of benefits, enabling engineers to:

• Improve performance,
• Minimize risks,
• Reduce costs and lead times,
• Limit over-engineering, and
• Avoid expensive delays from re-designs.

But in some ways it is getting harder to perform a high quality trade study efficiently.

The space supply chain is evolving quickly, with new supplier options coming to market on a regular basis, while established portfolios are evolving.

Both compliance regimes and the risks from orbital traffic and debris are changing rapidly too, placing new demands on mission designers.

And, finally, the outstanding technological advancements that teams all over the world have achieved (or at least, are claiming they will achieve) mean that expectations of success are higher than ever.

Basic feasibility isn't good enough any more - investors, partners, end-users, space agencies, and even your management, are setting the bar higher.

You need an approach to optimizing trade studies so that your team can clear it.

You need something better than a spreadsheet and a search engine.

You need satsearch.

A trade study robust enough to meet the challenges of the modern space industry needs a dedicated supply chain partner with:

• deep knowledge of the global market,
• technical space engineering capabilities,
• an extensive database of information on space hardware, software, services, and solutions, and
• an established contact network at manufacturers, distributors, and vendors around the world.

That's exactly what we can offer your team.

And here's how you can put these resources to good use in order perform faster, better trade studies:

Advice on mission design

Lean on our expertise supporting more than 400 mission teams around the world. Unsure if you need reaction wheels or CMGs? Optical or RF satellite comms? Your own ground station or access to a managed network?

Just ask us for help.

Guidance on today's market

When your high-level requirements are scoped out we can advise you on the shape of the market. We speak with hundreds of suppliers every month and have helped facilitate over $1 billion in procurement discussions to date.

You can put this knowledge to good use for your next mission to help you more easily identify technologies to assess.

Identifying technologies and capabilities

When you're selecting the specific technologies, or other capabilities, to include in your trade study we can help you easily cast the widest possible net across the global supply chain.

New innovations are brought to market every month, and even the most well-established supplier portfolios change rapidly.

We collect and aggregate a huge volume of supply chain data, direct from vendors, on satsearch.com to give you the advantages you need.

Finding accurate information

When you need up-to-date specifications, costs, lead times, and datasheets you can also simply request them for free on satsearch.com. The platform features thousands of supplier profiles, product and service pages, and downloadable assets, like CAD models and datasheets.

We also have established relationships at hundreds of companies around the world, so we can get you the precise answers you need. And we can get them fast.

Suppliers are continually incentivized to share the most accurate and up-to-date portfolio information with us, often making our database more current than suppliers' own websites - let alone industry reports!

To begin your satsearch journey, simply try out a few searches on our platform for the products or capabilities needed in your next mission.

You can make free requests on any page - simply let us know what you're looking for and we'll go to work for you.

And to really kickstart a trade study, use our open commercial tendering system to share your higher level requirements.

It's fast, simple, no-obligation, and 100% free to get started.

Let's build the future of the space industry together.

Ad astra!