Aerospace & Orbital Systems
Aviation and space have stopped being separate businesses. The same operators, the same investors, increasingly the same airspace. We take on certification, fleet decarbonisation, propulsion and avionics programmes for airlines, aircraft OEMs, MRO providers, satellite operators and launch companies, including the business models that have to earn out at 30,000 feet and in low earth orbit.
Passenger jets still carry most of the world’s long-haul travel. The same air corridors now hold high-altitude drones, and just above them small-satellite constellations pipe broadband and earth-observation data back to the ground.
We put commercial airlines, aircraft OEMs, MRO providers, satellite-communications operators, launch companies and space-tourism ventures in one practice because the line between aviation and space has stopped meaning much.
Launch costs have fallen and payloads have got lighter, so a satellite network can go from slide deck to orbit inside a year. Airlines have a different problem: decarbonise the fleet without wrecking the economics, and give passengers a reason to care.
Operators who win here work in both worlds at once. They satisfy today’s safety and regulatory regime on the ground while designing propulsion, avionics and revenue models that hold up at 30,000 feet and at 300 miles up.