Aerospace and space have re-opened to private capital — launch, small satellites, earth observation, communications, propulsion, and the defense aerospace supply chain. SOLOMON PARTNERS brings program-literate judgement to a sector where schedules slip, physics does not negotiate, and the winners compound for decades.
Space has become an industrial economy: launch costs have fallen an order of magnitude, satellite constellations have become operating businesses, and defense demand underwrites much of the order book. Yet the sector remains littered with programs that confused ambition with engineering maturity.
Our advantage is program literacy — the ability to read a qualification matrix, a propulsion test campaign, or a constellation deployment plan and judge whether the milestones are real. That judgement drives our investing and is the product our advisory clients buy.
Launch vehicles and propulsion systems, satellite buses and payloads, earth observation and SAR analytics, satellite communications, avionics and flight software, ground segment economics, in-orbit servicing, defense aerospace subsystems, and supplier qualification across the aerostructures and components chain.
Through Principal Investments we take positions across the capital structure — venture and growth equity, special situations, and co-investment alongside institutional partners — always underwritten by our own technical work rather than borrowed conviction.
Through our Technology Advisory practice we deliver independent assessments, technical due diligence, and written expert opinions in this sector for investors, boards, lenders, corporates, and government programs. Through Capital Formation we prepare and run fundraising processes for companies whose technology withstands our own scrutiny.
We invest in it, raise capital for it, and evaluate it. Tell us where you sit, and we will bring the relevant practice to the table.