Improve Your Decisions
Founded by NASA’s Chief Economist Team, we guide decision makers through complex investments. By combining analytical rigor and technical expertise, we help our clients identify and actualize transformative opportunities. Our Partners have led major commercial acquisitions efforts, shaped government policies, and built industry-defining economic frameworks.
Market Estimates
Enter your market with clarity and strategic advantage. We deliver objective analyses of private and government demand sources, quantify market magnitudes, and identify critical sensitivities. Our market intelligence eliminates guesswork, empowering data-backed decisions.
Technology Analysis
Your technology is groundbreaking, but you need to stay ahead of tomorrow’s competition. We analyze performance and costs of emerging technologies, delivering clear assessments of your future advantages.
Due Diligence
We deliver rigorous valuation and technology assessments for venture capital funding rounds, M&A transactions for banks and corporations, and IPO processes for financial institutions and exchanges.
Government Services
Breakthrough technology requires supportive policy. We deliver regulatory, strategic, and policy analysis for U.S. government sponsors, along with guidance for private and foreign entities navigating the U.S. regulatory landscape.
Managing Partners
Dr. Akhil Rao
Chief Economist
Experience as Chief Economist at NASA and Professor of Economics
Dr. Tom Colvin
Chief Technologist
Experience as Senior Advisor to NASA and White House leadership
Adrian Mangiuca
Chief Revenue Officer
Experience as NASA analyst and business leader at SpaceX, Voyager, Redwire, and Nanoracks
Dr. Moon Kim
Chief Analyst
Experience as financial analyst at NASA HQ, RAND Corporation, Morgan Stanley, and NASA Goddard
Our Work
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An Empirical Examination of Space Launch Cost Trend at NASA
NASA-internal data shows that the Agency’s cost of launch is not going down; rather, it is going up faster than inflation.
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Measuring Space Manufacturing Plant Utilization and Own-Account Production
This study addresses a gap in measuring the U.S. space manufacturing sector’s productive capacity and economic output.
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Opportunity Costs Drive the Market Price of Starship Launches
Opportunity costs and market competition are used to estimate a range of market prices for Starship launch services.