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Savings Estimator

What could automated compliance save you?

Range safety compliance and federal licensing are the hidden bottleneck on the path to launch — a time-consuming effort of manual tailoring, document assembly, and multi-agency applications per mission. Select your role and enter your own numbers below to model the time and cost ELSSA could give back.

This tab models the LVP's own liaison effort. To estimate the time ELSSA gives back to each of your payload customers — their Range Safety deliverables and agency filings per launch — switch to the Payload / Satellite Mfr. tab.

Support effort per payload customer

Blended per-customer averages — the hours to shepherd one payload to launch readiness: coordinating Range Safety deliverables, tracking LVP-direct 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.

Estimated annual savings

Engineering time returned

1,200 hrs

≈ 30 weeks of engineering effort per year

Estimated cost savings

$180,000

per year

How this is calculated
  1. Manual effort today: your entered inputs (adjustable above) — 20 payload customers × (40 + 25 + 20 + 35 hrs) = 2,400 hrs/yr.
  2. Hours saved: 2,400 hrs × your selected effort reduction (currently 50%, adjustable above) = 1,200 hrs/yr.
  3. Cost saved: 1,200 hrs × your loaded hourly rate (currently $150, adjustable above) = $180,000/yr.

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