Satellite design takes 2+ years. Launch slots open every week.
Design satellites
10× faster.
Go from mission requirements to flight-ready designs in days, not years.
Automated tradespace analysis. Real component selection. Physics-validated outputs.
Powered by the SKYWARD Tradespace Engine
A new opportunity just landed.
You have weeks to respond — maybe less.
Your best systems engineers are already deep in a current mission, and you can't afford to pull them off the schedule-critical work.
Normally, this means long nights, spreadsheet-driven trades, and a scramble to assemble something that barely meets requirements.
With Black Foundry, you deliver in days — not months.
Load the mission needs, run automated trades, and generate a physics-validated, PDR-ready design in a few days.
No heroics. No fire drills. No schedule slips on the programs you're already executing.
You submit a better proposal, faster, without pulling engineers off their mission.
That's what a pilot unlocks.
The Problem
Launch capacity has scaled.
Design capacity hasn't.
Rockets launch weekly. Satellites still take years to design. The bottleneck has shifted—and it's costing you proposals.
Traditional Approach
24–72 months
Manual trade studies, spreadsheets, disconnected tools
With Black Foundry
Days to weeks
Automated analysis, integrated physics, real components
SKYWARD Tradespace Engine: Execute thousands of trade studies and sensitivity analyses in minutes. Explore millions of design configurations with physics-validated results—not theoretical estimates.
End-to-End Design Loop
One workflow. Complete designs.
Unlike STK or FreeFlyer, Black Foundry handles both design and simulation in one continuous loop—no stitching tools together.
Requirements
Natural language or YAML
Tradespace
Millions of configurations
Selection
Real vendor components
Integration
Auto-layout & CAD
Simulation
Physics validation
Outputs
PDR-ready artifacts
Real Components
Flight-proven hardware from actual vendor catalogs with real costs and lead times.
Physics-Validated
Orbital mechanics, ADCS, optical, thermal, power, and link budget simulations.
Production-Ready
BOMs, CAD files, trade studies, cost estimates, and programmatic docs—PDR-ready.
Custom deployment options available for sensitive environments.
Output Artifacts
What you get.
Every workflow produces engineering-grade deliverables. These are real screenshots from Black Foundry.
Tradespace Analysis
1 / 10Power scaling sensitivity analysis showing solar array sizing vs. payload power across data rate configurations.
See these outputs generated live for your mission
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Founding Pilot Partners
We're working with forward-thinking space companies to validate and refine Black Foundry's approach to mission design.
BlackVe
Founding Pilot PartnerBlackVe is a founding pilot partner of Black Foundry, leveraging the platform to rapidly translate mission requirements into validated spacecraft and constellation designs. The collaboration focuses on accelerating proposal timelines, improving design rigor, and increasing capture probability for complex space missions.
Interested in becoming a pilot partner? Get in touch →
Primary Use Case
Designed for aerospace engineering teams.
Accelerate design cycles and improve competitive positioning. Ship satellites while competitors are still in preliminary design.
Proposal Teams
10× more bids per year with higher win rates
Generate compliant, physics-validated designs for RFPs in days instead of months. More shots on goal, better technical volumes, faster iteration on reviewer feedback.
90%
cycle time reduction
Constellation Programs
Rapidly iterate variants for proliferated LEO. Optimize across cost, coverage, and revisit.
Proposal Readiness
Independent reference designs and cost estimates for competitive bids.
Status
What's available today.
Live Now
- • Docker web-app delivery
- • EO, SSA, and Communications missions
- • SKYWARD tradespace analysis engine
- • Multi-vignette simulation
- • Enhanced optical design validation
- • Power / EPS sizing
- • Structural FEM integration
- • Cable harness routing
- • Flight software design (cFS)
- • PDR documentation
- • Programmatic documentation
- • Risk analysis
In Development
- • SAR mission modality
- • Multi-modality constellations
- • Space weather
- • Space control
- • On-prem air-gapped deployments
The Team
18+ years of satellite engineering experience.
We've designed spacecraft across EO, SSA, and communications missions throughout the aerospace industry. Now we're making that expertise accessible through software.
50+
Missions
100+
Proposals
18+
Years
Live tracking of missions our team has contributed to
Ready to move faster?
See Black Foundry design a spacecraft in real-time. Walk through a mission scenario relevant to your program.
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