Introduction

LuxSATConsult is a Luxembourg based multi-disciplinary consulting firm to provide an independent business, technology and management assessment and strategic decision-making assistance to:

  • public institutions (Luxembourg Minister of Economy, European Commission, European Space Agency, European GNSS Agency)
  • private industry organisations including
    • SMEs
    • New Space ventures such as
      • private launch companies,
      • small satellite constellations as part of a recently created specific effort to change the traditional space industry supply chain.

We believe New Space industry leaders and policy makers require objective, data-driven business analysis and cutting-edge technology and management expertise, free of vested interests and pre-conceptions, to make the right decisions.

LuxSATConsult thrive in leveraging the knowledge of their client resources by training and mentoring them to achieve their projects outcomes faster and more effectively.

Our consulting services and capabilities portfolio covers the complete life cycle of a satellite project. We provide a customer friendly function to enable pragmatic business, technical and programmatic oversight on space missions’ feasibility and marketing studies, specific satellite payload and platform subsystems procurement, subcontracts monitoring and contracts execution.

Our Values

  • Intelligence: We provide a robust functional experience based on state of the art knowledge of the products and market working with just every type of commercial and institutional players active in satellite telecommunications, remote sensing and information intelligence.
  • Integrity & Independence: We treat the new space entrants, traditional space companies, and institutions and government customers with respect and discretion. We support our customers with full objectivity and impartiality in providing them technical, strategic, financial and operational advisory services to help them and their stakeholders succeed with the opportunities and challenges that confront them.
  • Innovation: We pride ourselves not always making obvious choices when resolving a problem but in providing novel technical and commercial solutions for our customers. This could include:
    • Feasibility studies, rethinking new business model and marketing assessment for new space missions at early stage of a project.
    • New processes and quality standards required at each step of the procurement and construction phases of small satellite projects and products from specifications preparation and bid reviews to sub-contractors on-site monitoring and in-orbit testing.

Our Team

Dr. Farzin Arzpayma Managing Director

File Farzin Arzpayma is a Managing Director of LuxSATConsult with over 38 years of international and broad industrial experience well versed in space systems and radio-communication technologies sector. He has worked through his career with a wide range of international satellite industry players and has been involved in assessing the customer application missions, business intelligence, marketing analyses, financial requirements, and has resolved the plethora of issues arising during the predevelopment, design and implementation of large and small GEO and LEO spacecrafts missions, communication payloads, TT&C subsystems and RF instrument electronics contracts.

Today in LuxSATConsult, Dr. Farzin Arzpayma and his team of industry experts and advisors provide a value-added service to assist the European institutional and private industry customers in feasibility and market studies, procurement processes, and subcontract monitoring of their subcontractors on space and ground systems, with focus on emerging new space ventures and small satellites constellations in many projects and entrepreneurial endeavours. Previously, he was with OHB LuxSpace as business development, proposal manager. He had senior consulting in multiple projects management and entrepreneurial endeavours in Canada, and France. Before he was a satellite system engineer specialized in communications payloads architectures and TT&C subsystems control and monitoring working at TAS and AIRBUS.

He has a MS in Electronics and Communication Engineering degree from King’s College University of London in UK, and Diploma of Docteur Ingénieur from Supelec – University of Paris XI (Orsay) France in Signal Processing and Automatics. He is a member of IEEE.

Contact

An der Schammeswiss 1
L-7651 Heffingen
Luxembourg

T +352 621 491 942
E farzpayma@luxsatconsult.lu