Company Overview
SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI) is an aerospace engineering concept design and systems analysis firm focusing on next-generation space transportation systems, future technologies, human and robotic exploration of space, and emerging space markets and applications. SEI's advanced concept design and development work helps our customers envision the impact of future technologies, understand the feasibility of proposed space missions, and make strategic decisions regarding future markets.
Our experienced team uses the latest multidisciplinary design techniques to combine a range of technical and economic assessments into an integrated capability. In-house capabilities include performance assessment, aerodynamic analysis, propulsion systems analysis, mission design, cost assessment, reliability and safety analysis, reusable launch vehicle operations simulation, business case assessment, artwork, and custom computer animation and renders. Design work can be performed probabilistically or deterministically, depending on customer needs and requirements.
Our customers include NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, DARPA, traditional aerospace primes and emerging space entrepreneurs and their companies. Since our founding in 2000, SEI has served a variety of customers on space projects and contracts ranging from large to small, and from long to short duration. Our capabilities include single-discipline support for a client’s design team to complete end-to-end space concept analysis that includes performance, weight estimates, cost, and technology sensitivities.
SEI engineers are also engaged in advanced research and outreach activities on topics that resonate with the world community. Our internal research projects include mission studies of concepts that might be used to deflect potentially dangerous asteroids, applications of space-based solar power for strategic energy independence, and promotion of market-driven space development activities such as space tourism and space resource utilization.
Company Organization
SEI was originally founded as an engineering design services company with emphasis on aerospace engineering disciplines and engineering economic analysis. As our business has grown and expanded, we have reorganized to best meet the changing needs of our customers and the market.
SEI currently operates three divisions. SpaceWorks Engineering serves our traditional aerospace customers in government and commercial industry. Our Engineering Division is further organized into the Advanced Concepts Group (ACG), the Engineering Economics Group (EEG), and the Space Media Group (SMG).
In 2008, we added two new divisions. SpaceWorks Commercial seeks to create value-added partnerships with the emerging entrepreneurial space community as well as international space industry leaders. Key goals of this division include advancing innovative solutions to challenges in space development, space-based energy, and high-speed flight. SpaceWorks Commercial also participates in popular space prizes.
Another division, SpaceWorks Software, serves as SEI’s software sales organization. This division supplies specialty aerospace and systems engineering software products to government, industry, and educational customers in multiple technical disciplines such as propulsion, trajectory analysis, thermal protection systems, cost, and disciplinary integration. Our software users include leading design organizations in the U.S. Air Force, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the National Institute of Aerospace.
SEI is a privately held S-corporation based in Atlanta, GA. SEI is also a corporate partner in the Georgia Space Grant Consortium.
