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About us

Led by space policy veteran Mike French, the Space Policy Group provides independent space policy analysis to help industry and government leaders navigate the increasingly connected global commercial and government space sectors. As the space market adjusts to the exponential growth in commercial space, we are seeing:

  • The promise of new commercial capabilities capturing governments’ interest in new procurement strategies and expanded public private partnership models.

  • Global political and economic pressures reshaping government space budget priorities, driving workforce challenges, and realigning historic supply chains.

  • Orbital debris, in-space and lunar commercial activities, and increased launch frequency energizing regulatory activity in the U.S. and globally.

  • Allied and partner nations seeing space, and the space industry, as strategic diplomatic and national security avenues.

Whether you are a business or government leader, an experienced player, new entrant, or exploring the space market, the Space Policy Group will curate the right expertise for you to succeed in this dynamic landscape.

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“You had a lot of planning for the next five years that continued that assumption of budget growth,” said Mike French, a consultant for the Space Policy Group. “And so just that in itself is causing things to break.”

“There’s a symbiotic relationship between the success of mega constellations and the overall launch market because the replenishment of constellations drives so much launch demand”

“From a science perspective, more launch is a very good thing,” French says. “More launch likely means more competitive prices, more options on timing and more options on what those launches can do.”

“We’ll be successful when the capability can be talked about without the space component,” Mike French, Space Policy Group founder, said Oct. 14 at the International Astronautical Congress here. “We’re not space communication, we’re communications. We’re not space transportation, we’re transportation.”

“We think of space telecom as closer to telecom. We don’t think space telecom is closer to exploring the moon. It’s closer to my cell phone”

What we do

Regulatory & Policy Guidance

Congress, federal agencies, and international governments are rewriting space and technology regulatory regimes to adapt to today’s commercial capabilities. We are deeply engaged in space regulatory activities in areas like launch and reentry, spectrum, space sustainability, and the conduct of in-space and lunar operations. We track these develops for you, help you understand how they will impact your business plans, and guide you in the policymaking process to shape their outcome.

Growth Strategy Augmentation

The promise of commercial space capabilities is capturing governments’ interest and expanding opportunities for space businesses. Knowing the true public sector market for your services and where you stand among competitors from the government customer’s perspective is imperative to competing in this landscape. We objectively assess your revenue plans to strengthen your approach and “red team” proposals to help you expand your business with NASA, Space Force, and other government customers.

Space Investment Insights

Whether you are pursuing a space sector investment or a space company seeking your next round of financing, we will help you understand how changing U.S. and global government space spending and emerging regulatory policies will impact your addressable market and valuation models. We can also help you assess nascent space opportunities where government investment is shaping the market, including in national security space, space sustainability, in-space servicing, mobility, and manufacturing, and lunar activities.

Innovative Partnerships

From financing and tax models to repurposing underutilized land and facilities to partnering with academia, NGOs, and philanthropists, state and federal governments are bypassing their traditional procurement constraints for space projects. We bring expertise from the development of NASA’s commercial space programs and California’s Earth science data initiatives to help you establish innovative partnerships with federal and state agencies you may have thought were not possible with governments.

Government Clients

Government leaders can benefit from the same strategic analysis and independent policy guidance as private sector leaders. We help you determine the viability of the market to support your innovative procurement or partnership approach, assess your proposed policies and program structures to avoid unintended consequences, and serve as a turnkey solution to support your engagements with global industry and government stakeholders.

Pro Bono Legislative Services

We are deeply committed to informed space policy decision making that will advance human exploration, space science, and technology development using positive market incentives while avoiding known obstacles and unintended consequences. To help accomplish this, we offer independent policy insights to Congressional stakeholders and U.S. partner nation legislative bodies on a pro bono basis.

  • Want to learn more about space policy issues? Check out our resources here.

  • We are available to provide our independent insights on space issues on the record and on background. We also regularly speak at conferences and to public and private groups. Reach out here.

  • Want to know more about how we work? Learn more here.

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