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Savings Estimator

What could ELSSA save your organization?

Range safety compliance and federal licensing quietly consume weeks of engineering time on every mission — long before you reach the pad. Select your role and enter your own numbers below to model the time and cost ELSSA could give back.

Enter your launch vehicle organization's figures below to estimate savings across your manifest.

This is the fleet view — value unlocked by assigning one ELSSA license per payload customer in your contracted queue. Each license clears that customer's Range Safety deliverables and agency filings faster, and cuts your own liaison effort. Switch to the Payload / Satellite Mfr. tab to model a single customer's workload in detail.

Payload customer's workload — time it takes today
Notes & assumptions

A blended average across the Range Safety set — AFSPCMAN 91-710 tailoring, MSPSP, hazard analyses, GOP, etc. Some run far heavier than others; figure includes typical revision cycles.

FAA payload review, NOAA remote-sensing license, FCC Form 312 — effort varies by payload type (only comms need FCC, only imaging needs NOAA). Use a blended average.

Hours saved on the payload customer's own engineering team — the range-safety deliverables and agency filings they must produce to reach launch readiness, each prepared per AFSPCMAN 91-710. This is the workload one temporary license removes for them.

Your team's liaison effort — time it takes today
Notes & assumptions

Hours saved on your own mission-management team — shepherding each payload to launch readiness: coordinating deliverables, tracking model submissions, and chasing late or out-of-spec files. Licensing support varies by payload type, so estimate an average across your manifest:

  • FCC — comms payloads only
  • NOAA — imaging / remote-sensing payloads only
  • FAA payload review — commercial only; U.S. government payloads exempt (14 CFR 450.43)
50%

Your assumption — actual savings vary with project complexity, mission profile, deliverable maturity, and how much of the workflow you automate. This defaults to a deliberately conservative figure; on mature, repeatable workflows ELSSA targets substantially higher reductions — slide up to model them.

Your organization's savings

Engineering time returned

58,800 hrs

Estimated gross savings — across your contracted queue

$8,820,000

Per licensed payload customer$73,500
  • Payload customer's engineers$64,500
  • Your mission-management team$9,000
How this is calculated
  1. Manual effort today — your entered inputs (adjustable above):
    • Payload customers' own engineering: 120 licensed customers × 860 hrs103,200 hrs
    • Your team's liaison effort: 120 licensed customers × 120 hrs14,400 hrs
    • Total manual effort117,600 hrs/yr
  2. Hours saved: 117,600 hrs × your selected effort reduction (currently 50%, adjustable above) = 58,800 hrs/yr.
  3. Cost saved: 58,800 hrs × your loaded hourly rate (currently $150, adjustable above) = $8,820,000/yr.

Illustrative estimate based on the figures you enter — not measured customer results.

This is gross labor savings — engineering capacity ELSSA hands back to the manifest, valued at your own rate. The higher your launch cadence, the more it compounds. Let's put your program's numbers in and model your net savings and payback together — live, in a demo.