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Continuous qualification intelligence, test campaigns, facility availability, and compliance pathways mapped to your mission.
Monitors
The Synthetic Qualification Tracker runs a continuous watch across the qualification and testing landscape for your hardware class. It tracks applicable standards (ECSS, MIL-STD, NASA-STD, ISO), required test sequences for your target orbit and launch vehicle, and evolving launch provider requirements. It continuously scans European and global test facility availability with lead times, cost benchmarks, and cleanroom class.
ECSS, MIL-STD, NASA-STD, and ISO requirements mapped to your hardware class, with alerts when standards evolve.
Required qualification steps for your target orbit and launch vehicle, including shock, vibration, thermal vacuum, acoustic, EMC, and separation testing.
European and global test facility slots across vibration shakers, thermal vacuum chambers, acoustic cells, EMC anechoic chambers, and shock rigs, with lead times, cleanroom class, and cost benchmarks.
Policy updates from Arianespace, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, ISRO and others that change your qualification pathway mid-campaign.
ESA and NASA procurement changes that affect which qualifications become relevant or mandatory for your mission class.
Delivers
Every week, the Synthetic Qualification Tracker produces a qualification brief specific to your hardware and mission. It maps the full test campaign you need, flags facility windows and cancellations, and surfaces compliance gaps before they become blockers.
A structured summary of the week's standards changes, facility slot movements, and launch provider requirement updates relevant to your campaign. 600–900 words.
The full test sequence your hardware needs: which tests, in what order, against which standards, with estimated duration and cost per test.
Real-time availability across European test facilities, with lead times, cleanroom class, and startup-friendly access flags.
Launch provider requirement changes, standards updates, and facility cancellations that affect your campaign, surfaced the moment they happen.
Quarterly synthesis of where your current pathway diverges from what is needed for launch provider acceptance, insurance, and investor due diligence.
Replaces
Role
Qualification engineer or test program manager
Cost
CHF 130,000–180,000/year fully loaded
Time to value
4–6 months to hire with orbit-class qualification experience, 3 months to reach productivity
A qualification engineer with aerospace test program experience costs CHF 130,000–180,000 per year in Switzerland including social contributions and overhead. Independent test program consultants charge CHF 1,800–2,800 per day. The Synthetic Qualification Tracker delivers a continuously-updated view of the qualification pathway for CHF 1,100 per month, active from week one.
Scope
The Synthetic Qualification Tracker is an intelligence function, not a qualification engineering function. Understanding where it ends helps you use it correctly.
It surfaces availability. Booking, negotiating access, and managing facility relationships remain founder-led.
It tells you what to test and where. Test anomaly investigation and result interpretation require a qualification engineer.
Formal technical conversations with your launch provider remain human-led.
If your hardware needs a test sequence not in existing standards, it surfaces adjacent references, but cannot invent the regime for you.
For
A technical founder at pre-seed, seed, or MVP stage building flight hardware who needs visibility into the qualification campaign ahead but cannot justify a qualification engineer hire yet. You know your subsystem. You need continuous visibility into what tests are required, where they can be run, and how the pathway is evolving, without paying a consultant's day rate.
Active from week one. Weekly brief delivered every Monday. Cancel anytime after the first month.
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