AI-native compliance for space
Get your mission
cleared to fly.
The FCC just replaced its entire satellite rulebook. Space Trust computes whether your mission clears the new rules, predicts your review path, and tracks every obligation for the 20 years a license lasts — across the FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU.
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The vision
Between orbit and the state.
Under a minute on why this is happening now: the rulebook the FCC just tore up, the launch curve behind it, and the permission layer nobody owns yet.
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What we do
Your filings, prepared, submitted, and kept current.
Prepare & file
We assemble applications from your mission details and route them to the right agency — so operators aren't stitching filings together by hand.
Validate against the rules
Each draft is checked against current requirements so gaps surface before a reviewer does — flagging anomalies early, not after rejection.
Monitor what's due
A license isn't the finish line. We track continuing obligations, renewal cycles, and deadlines — keeping audit trails as the rulebook moves.
Why it's hard today
Compliance is still stitched together with spreadsheets and expensive headcount.
Siloed tools, manual workflows
Operators assemble stacks of point solutions and legal retainers just to understand what's happening under the hood — slow, fragmented, and easy to drop.
Complexity compounds
As missions expand across agencies and jurisdictions, the cost of staying compliant grows faster than the flight cadence that pays for it.
The rulebook is moving
Renewal cycles, audits, and a regulatory patchwork — including the Part 100 / Part 450 rewrite — leave teams stuck in human review bottlenecks.
Why now
Three days ago, the FCC threw out the satellite rulebook.
On July 22, 2026, the Commission voted unanimously, 3–0, to replace Part 25 in its entirety with a new Part 100 — a “licensing assembly line” for a market its own analysis says it can no longer keep up with. Every operator now has to renegotiate its regulatory position. Transitions are land-grabs.
“We are scrapping our rules in their entirety and replacing them with better ones. Regulators tend to tinker around the edges; they don't throw away the rulebook and rewrite it from scratch.”
SB Docket No. 25-306
Adopted. Effective date follows OMB review.
- 30 days
- to a completeness determination on every filing
- 15 days
- public notice period, halved from 30
- 20 years
- default license term, extended from 15
- Part 25
- sunsets entirely once Part 100 takes effect
The FAA rewrite has been ordered but not yet proposed.
Part 450 became the sole launch and reentry framework on March 9, 2026. Executive Order 14335 directs the DOT to "reevaluate, amend, or rescind" it — but no proposed rule has been published. Operators are migrating onto a framework that is itself about to change.
In the news
This is not a forecast. It is happening now.
FCC approves sweeping space reforms while clearing more C-band for 5G
FCC Overhauls Satellite Licensing, Adopts 'Assembly Line' Approach
FCC approves satellite spectrum license streamlining
FCC votes to adopt new licensing process for satellites
FCC Cuts Satellite Application Backlog by Half, Chairman Carr Says
FCC to vote on satellite licensing overhaul July 22
FAA Ends Part 450 Transition Period
FCC proposes 'licensing assembly line' to accelerate satellite approvals
The demand
Every object in orbit is a regulatory event — at birth, throughout life, and at death.
4,526
satellites launched in 2025
Up 19x from 237 in 2015 — a 34% compound annual growth rate.
50%+
of all satellites ever launched
reached orbit in just the last four years.
16,235
active satellites in orbit
Every one of them a licensed, continuously monitored obligation.
14
FAA Part 450 licenses issued
In five years, across the entire US launch industry.
Satellites reaching orbit each year
237 in 2015. 4,526 in 2025. More than half of everything humanity has ever put in orbit went up in the last four years.
Applications hitting the FCC's desk
The regulator's own intake numbers, from the Part 100 rulemaking. Filings for non-geostationary systems at the ITU rose 3.9x over the same decade — 611 to 2,384.
The market
A $686B space economy still runs its permissions on hourly lawyers.
The global space economy reached $686B in 2025, +12% year over year, and is forecast to pass $1.01T by 2034. Compliance is a small percentage of that — and nobody owns it.
TAM
$3–6B
growing to $10–20B by the mid-2030s
Compliance spend typically runs 0.5–2% of a regulated sector's economics, the same band as tax and AML/KYC RegTech. Applied to a space economy heading toward $1T.
SAM
$15–100M
per year, near-term
200–400 addressable US commercial space entities at an estimated $50–300K a year of compliance spend each.
SOM
$1–3M
ARR in 18–24 months
10–20 operators at $75–150K average contract value — the wedge, not the ceiling.
Our analysis. Internal bottom-up and top-down estimates, not third-party published figures. No research firm sizes space regulatory compliance as a category — it is too new.
The opening
Government is building the rails. No government will build the company-side, cross-agency, cross-border layer that runs on them.
Law firms have trust but no software leverage. Software entrants have no accountable experts and no filing history. Agency portals each solve exactly one agency. Compliance layers that become infrastructure — Avalara in tax, Vanta in security — routinely outgrow the wedge they start in. Space is doing this decade what the internet did in the 1990s, and someone will be its permission layer.
How it works
Rethinking compliance when AI is the default.
We're not bolting chat onto a form. We're building AI-native compliance infrastructure that reduces reliance on specialized headcount — with a named expert still signing every certification.
01
Software does the legwork
AI-native tooling drafts filings, monitors regulatory changes, and generates the reports operators usually chase across spreadsheets.
02
Experts stand behind it
Named, accountable specialists review and certify submissions. A person signs the work — federal compliance can't be a black box.
03
Real-time visibility
One system of record across agencies and regimes — so finance and ops see obligations as they change, not months later in email.
Coverage
Real-time visibility across every agency that clears you.
FCC
Spectrum & satellite licensing
Earth station, space station, and market-access filings.
FAA
Part 450 launch & reentry
Vehicle operator licenses for launch and reentry.
NOAA
Commercial remote sensing
Licensing for imaging and Earth-observation payloads.
ITU
International coordination
Frequency filings and orbital slot coordination.
Who it's for
Built for the teams putting hardware in orbit.
Launch operators
Satellite & constellation operators
Spaceports filing Part 450
Early-stage space startups
Why Space Trust
Law firms have trust but no leverage. Software alone can't sign. We consolidate both — essential infrastructure that becomes your proof of “compliant, per us” for insurers and investors.
How we work together
Fixed-price migration to start. Ongoing system of record after.
We take existing filings and get them clean and current for a clear fixed price — no open-ended hourly bills. Then we stay on as your system of record, monitoring obligations and keeping every agency filing in one honest picture as the rules change.
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