The Space Collective
SUPPORTING CLIENTS IN SPACE
The team
We are a multidisciplinary team with wide-ranging expertise in numerous areas, including: hardware, compliance, finance, software, spectrum, and markets.
The services
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
MARKET RESEARCH
STRATEGIC ADVISORY
45
projects
37
Years of experience
28
clients
Our Experience
We have worked with market actors in many business areas, including: launch, satellites, subsystems, due diligence, venture capital, and legal services.
Small launch firm
We developed launch vehicle GNC systems
Comms constellation
We assembled and tested cubesats
due diligence provider
We built a global subcontractors network
Power system developer
We designed an electric propulsion system
Cost
– Split fees for hosting (~$80), domain registration (~$40), website software (free), email address (~$15 per)
– So, if eight individuals: ~$30 per year
Benefits
– Ability to bring in others on client discussions
– Ability to offer wider range of services to clients
– Opportunity to be drawn into others’ projects
– Access to more markets (assuming geographic diversity of members)
– Opportunity to brainstorm with others to provide clients with more useful interactions
– Finders fees for projects you bring in (even if you don’t work on it)
– Collective benefits from all projects distributed to all members (whether involved or not)
Approach to Pricing
– After initial client discussion, internally figure out who to involve
– Standard hourly rate for everyone
– Estimate hours per person
– Multiply hours by standard rate, add % for finders fee (ff)
– Also add % for collective benefit (cb)
– Estimate + ff + cb = price to client
Other Details
– New members added by consent of existing ones; ideally existing members gain familiarity with and confidence in new members’ work via some light-touch firsthand experience with their work
– Space Collective is not a company, but is a vehicle to support members’ business prospects
– Payment arrangements are arranged between members’ companies
– We stick to quoted prices (whether or not members run over with hours)
– We define scope so each member is responsible for their element (reduces others’ reputational risk)
– A mechanism enables booting nonperforming members (e.g. a quarterly member vote)
– Related to booting mechanism, some definition of general indicators of (non)performance