Terrestrial Product Manager.
From Earth to Orbit: VIRGIL Fuels Space Product Success.
Welcome to the Space community! Globally we’re a relatively small number of folk, but it's our time to shine, and everyone's invited to join us for the ride.
You’re a rising star in your market. You’ve got an exciting product already creating revenue, growth is strong and you’re looking for that new angle. You are certain there’s a spot for your product in the burgeoning space sector, but building tech for space is expensive, right?
Short answer - it depends! But in many cases, it costs far less than you think. If you’re from deep tech, you’ve probably already covered a lot of the testing requirements already. If you’re from a highly regulated industry like Automotive, MedTech or Aviation, doubly so. Can you swiftly apply your product solution to Space with minimal redevelopment effort? VIRGIL can answer that for you.
Our core belief at Starbound Space Solutions is that EVERYONE should be empowered to build products for space. We gave up our day jobs and built VIRGIL for you, before we even knew each other. We knew you would have your amazing idea, and the time for it to reach orbit is now. Right Now.
Imagine a Day Powered by VIRGIL:
You’ve got your existing product pipeline. Your products are well respected and the development teams know what they are doing. You have some exciting new things to roll out in the next phase, and realise that there could be applications for this in space - especially now, with Space Tourism, Moon bases and Asteroid mining just around the corner.
Introducing VIRGIL when you’re scoping out your next design iteration means you can compare all the design standards, testing and certification that you have already completed, to what the space industry needs before you can be signed off as good for launch. VIRGIL has been trained on technical concepts and can intelligently and semantically compare documents from different technical fields.
Within minutes, you have a summary of the design changes you need to make, and a couple of extra tests to perform. VIRGIL even offers to inject the new tasks into your work planning tool. It’s way, way less effort than you were expecting.
From Regulations to Rocket Fuel:
Meet Jordan, a hypothetical product manager who was part of the founding team for a startup that has developed a new air fryer that has taken the market by storm. An avid space fan since they were a kid, Jordan was excited to talk to an engineer from a large, traditional aerospace company when introduced by a mutual friend. Jordan explained the novel tech that made the air fryer so exciting to the market, and the space engineer agreed that it had potential application in space - Astronauts very rarely get exciting foods on the space station, let alone fries! But then the downer - the space engineer described the process of “Flight Qualification”, and showed Jordan a pdf of NASA criteria used to decide if something was safe to install on the space station - hundreds of pages, with jargon Jordan was not familiar with. The space engineer estimated that the whole journey could take 3-5 years before they would see something launched.
Unfazed, Jordan had heard of Starbound’s VIRGIL product, and decided to get a second opinion. VIRGIL compared all the work that had already been put into the development of the air fryer - turns out that high powered kitchen equipment has some pretty high safety standards already, and many of the materials used in the product were already certified as ok for space.
VIRGIL generated a “re-qualification” project plan, including a table of how existing tests could be shown to partially meet those NASA criteria. It would take about 9 months, not the years Jordan’s new acquaintance suggested.
This is not a true story… yet. Perhaps it could be your story!
Addressing Your Concerns:
It always feels risky to enter a new market. Starbound Space Solutions have curated and bottled some of the most insightful and experienced space engineering know-how and combined it with the black-and-white space engineering best practice documentation. It’s delivered to you via VIRGIL - a local LLM trained on advanced space technology terminology. You may be entering a new market - but with VIRGIL backing you up it's going to feel like home in no time.
The Starbound Advantage:
Space needs fresh ideas, new ways of delivering and innovating, and a plurality of perspectives. It’s a great big solar system - it can’t be the same handful of organisations and companies doing all the things. It needs you to shake things up. Starbound was founded to empower you. You may have heard the saying “space is hard”... it’s true. The expertise that Starbound has packaged up is a testament to the cumulative 100+ years of hard work of the space experts that have taught VIRGIL. You can leverage that.
An Exclusive Invitation:
We’re just getting started, and your awesome idea deserves to reach orbit ASAP. We cut you an enormous discount, help you get to space, and we get an incredible case study to put on our website. Sounds like a good deal? We’re only doing this for one non-space partner, so best to reach out to us as soon as you can.
Join the Innovation Revolution:
Your feedback will shape VIRGIL's evolution. Share your experiences and challenges with us, and let's collaborate to write the next chapter in space product innovation.