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Continuous reference-mission intelligence, what has flown, what is architecturally emerging, and what it means for your mission.
Monitors
The Synthetic Mission Architecture Scout runs a continuous watch across reference missions and architectural choices in your orbit class, payload size, and mission type. It tracks what comparable ventures actually flew, platform providers, bus selections, propulsion choices, power budgets, communication architectures, launch vehicles, rideshare vs. dedicated decisions, and scans upcoming mission announcements, satellite filings, constellation deployment plans, and in-orbit demonstration results.
What comparable ventures in your orbit class and payload size actually flew: bus, propulsion, power, comms, launch vehicle, and rideshare vs. dedicated decisions.
FCC, ITU, and ESA filings that reveal upcoming mission architectures before any press announcement.
Announced and in-progress constellation plans affecting your orbit class, including licensing, frequency allocation, and deployment schedules.
Published outcomes from in-orbit demonstrations on subsystem standards, platform providers, and architecture decisions in your class.
Emerging standardized bus platforms (ESA, NASA, prime contractors) that may reduce development risk for your mission class.
Delivers
Every week, the Synthetic Mission Architecture Scout produces an architecture brief specific to your mission profile. It maps what has actually flown in your class, with mass budgets, power budgets, orbit parameters, and subsystem choices surfaced from public filings and mission documentation.
A structured summary of the week's reference mission announcements, satellite filings, and in-orbit demo outcomes relevant to your class. 600–900 words.
A curated, continuously-updated set of comparable missions with mass, power, orbit parameters, bus, and subsystem choices extracted from public filings.
Architectural choices that correlate with mission success or failure in your class, with citations back to in-orbit outcomes.
Emerging standardized platforms, buses, and subsystem standards that may change your build-vs-buy calculus.
Reference missions announcing milestones that inform your own architecture decisions, surfaced the moment they are disclosed.
Replaces
Role
Systems engineer or mission architect consultant
Cost
CHF 150,000–200,000/year fully loaded
Time to value
5–7 months to hire with orbit-class mission design experience, 3–4 months to reach productivity
A systems engineer with aerospace mission design experience costs CHF 150,000–200,000 per year in Switzerland including social contributions and overhead. Independent mission architects charge CHF 2,000–3,500 per day. The Synthetic Mission Architecture Scout provides a continuously-updated view of reference missions and architectural patterns for CHF 1,100 per month, active from week one.
Scope
The Synthetic Mission Architecture Scout is an intelligence function, not a mission engineering function. Understanding where it ends helps you use it correctly.
It surfaces reference patterns. Mission architecture decisions remain founder-led.
It provides context. Trade studies, subsystem selection, and requirements flow-down still need a systems engineer.
Missions without public filings, press coverage, or technical publications are invisible to it.
It maps what others did. Whether your architecture is right for your payload and orbit remains your call.
For
A technical founder at pre-seed, seed, or MVP stage designing aerospace hardware who needs architectural grounding, reference missions, subsystem choices, and emerging platform standards, without committing to a full-time systems engineer. You know your payload. You need continuous visibility into what comparable ventures actually flew and what patterns correlate with success.
Active from week one. Weekly brief delivered every Monday. Cancel anytime after the first month.
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