Our consultants are highly-qualified economists with extensive experience in applying a wide variety of analytical techniques to the space industry, including:

• Financial business case development for new infrastructure, such as Spaceports, including profit & loss reports, and cashflow calculations
• Economic business case development for infrastructure projects including estimation of public utility benefits
• Financial modelling around launcher technologies
• Insightful and accurate market analysis and demand forecasting;
• Analysis of space industry structures, strategy and competitive forces;
• New technology adoption modelling;
• Opportunity prioritisation and targeting to maximise exploitation of investment;
• Sophisticated statistical analysis (econometrics, regression);
• Economic and financial modelling, among which: Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), cost effectiveness analysis, Value for Money (VfM), impact assessment, policy evaluation, business case development, cash flow and sustainability modelling.

Our clients include:

• European Space Agency (ESA)
• National space agencies (e.g. UK, Norway)
• Gatwick Airport
• Private operators (e.g. Reaction Engines Ltd.).

Recent projects include:

• Due diligence and CBA analysis of a space-plane operator for the European Space Agency.
• Advice to the UK Space Agency on the benefits to the UK economy from future investment in space exploration technology, including a UK spaceport, small launcher rockets and other launcher technologies.
• A socio-economic impact assessment of Norway’s space programs (European Space Agency funding, Norwegian Space Centre support funds, Radarsat) for the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.
• Competition analysis and advice
• Independent economic assessment of future benefits to the UK of investment in the SKYLON reusable spaceplane launcher for Reaction Engines Ltd. (recently reviewed favourably by the European Space Agency, ESA)