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.

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Powered by the SKYWARD Tradespace Engine

Built by national lab engineersValidated on real missions18+ years aerospace experience
SCENARIO

The RFP just came out.

You have 21 days 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 respond 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.

1

Requirements

Natural language or YAML

2

Tradespace

Millions of configurations

3

Selection

Real vendor components

4

Integration

Auto-layout & CAD

5

Simulation

Physics validation

6

Outputs

PDR-ready artifacts

Iterate until optimized

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.

Air-gapped and on-premise deployments available for government programs.

Output Artifacts

What you get.

Every workflow produces engineering-grade deliverables. These are real screenshots from Black Foundry.

Tradespace Analysis

Tradespace Analysis

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Power 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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Primary Use Case

Built for primes and government programs.

Win more proposals. Reduce schedule risk. 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.

Government Acquisition

Independent reference designs and cost estimates. Accelerate program starts.

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 at national laboratories and aerospace primes. Now we're making that expertise accessible through software.

50+

Missions

100+

Proposals

18+

Years

View Our Mission Heritage→

Live tracking of satellites we've designed and supported

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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