Startups live fast and die young. The large majority of them never make it past the seed stage. The reason? Many: Bad advice, bad products, bad teams, bad strategy, bad storytelling, bad choices, bad leadership, bad at discerning what’s bad. This book provides a guide to engineering successful and reliable products for the NewSpace industry. By discussing both the challenges involved in designing technical artefacts, and the challenges of growing an organisation, the book presents a unique approach to the topic. New Space Systems Engineering explores numerous difficulties encountered when designing a space system from scratch on limited budgets, non-existing processes, and great deal of organizational fluidity and emergence. It combines technical topics related to design, such as system requirements, modular architectures, and system integration, with topics related to organizational design, complexity, systems thinking, design thinking and a model based systems engineering. Its integrated approach mean this book will be of interest to researchers, engineers, investors, and early-stage space companies alike. It will help New Space founders and professionals develop their technologies and business practices, leading to more robust companies and engineering development. This book provides a guide to engineering successful and reliable products for the New Space industry. By discussing both the challenges involved in designing technical artefacts, and the challenges of growing an organisation, the book presents a unique approach to the topic. New Space Systems Engineering explores numerous difficulties encountered when designing a space system from scratch on limited budgets, non-existing processes, and great deal of organizational fluidity and emergence. It combines technical topics related to design, such as system requirements, modular architectures, and system integration, with topics related to organizational design, complexity, systems thinking, design thinking and a model based systems engineering. Its integrated approach mean this book will be of interest to researchers, engineers, investors, and early-stage space companies alike. It will help NewSpace founders and professionals develop their technologies and business practices, leading to more robust companies and engineering development Table of Contents Intro Mind Going All The Way Mind Persistence and Moderation Mind Your Ego Mind Storytelling Mind The Big Question Mind Your Step Mind Shocking Your Audience Mind The Wheel Already Exists Mind Tango Mind Not Losing a Heartbeat Mind Choosing Wisely Your Partners in Crime Mind There is Safety in Numbers Mind You Are Playing Dice Mind Taking Proper Notes Mind the Long Tail Mind The Rich Getting Richer Mind Collapse About the Author Notes
