Space
Companies
Accelerate Your Mission Success
Through Strategic Partnerships
Unlock your space company's full potential by accessing advanced manufacturing resources, proven supply chains, and global branding partnerships that reduce development costs, accelerate timelines, provide alternative revenue sources, and enhance mission reliability. Forbes-Space facilitates mission-critical collaborations between European space companies and established non-space organisations, creating the strategic partnerships that drive sustainable growth and global competitive advantage.
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What can you offer brand partners?
Branding
Rights
The conventional space enterprise partnership model entails selling branding or association rights to buyers without the partner necessarily contributing technical or product services. However, most successful sponsorships
are a blend of both.
Product Development
This space product development partnership involves creating a tailored product or service with the partner, designed to meet the unique demands of space operations.
This collaboration can benefit you and provide a market opportunity
for the partner.
Technical Partnerships
Technical partnerships where partners provide specialized expertise, capabilities, or advanced technologies at reduced or no cost to the space enterprise. In return, partners receive branding and
association rights.
Potential Mission Partners
Maximise the impact of your space projects by engaging with a diverse range of mission partners. As a space company you have the opportunity to collaborate with partners across multiple industries, each bringing unique strengths and expertise to the table.
Consumer and
B2B Brands
High-profile premium consumer brands
and B2B organisations seeking innovative
positioning through space sector association
and technical collaboration.
High-Tech Manufacturers
Partnerships that can leverage existing technical expertise, resources, and capabilities to help you overcome challenges and achieve your mission objectives more cost-effectively and faster.
Educational and Science Institutions
Your partners could include government agencies and research institutions that could offer funding, regulatory support, and collaboration opportunities to advance shared goals.
Professional Services
By aligning with a highly respected consulting
or advisory firm you could benefit from market leading strategic guidance, project and cost management, HR, financial advice, or M&A services. The right partner in this space could ensure that both your mission and your company has the best possible chance for success.
Corporate Partners
There are many potential alliances that could benefit your organization in sectors such as Manufacturing, Energy, Telecommunications, IT, Pharmaceuticals, Infrastructure, Biotechnology, Materials, Insurance and the Financial sector. These can offer a wide range of technical and management resources.
Our Mission Partnership Stages
Stage 1 - Ignition
Comprehensive analysis of your partnership requirements, technical needs, and strategic objectives to identify optimal partner categories and specific collaboration opportunities that align with your mission timeline and budget parameters.
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Priced from USD $5,000 as a one-time fee
Stage 2 - Liftoff
10 or more hours of partnership
enablement activity per month including:
- Identify and target potential mission partners
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- Direct approach to prioritised partner prospects
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- Representation to selected marketing agencies
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- Approach to technical partners as required
Priced from USD $2,000 per month
Stage 3 - Acceleration
Paid-for marketing feature: Arranging and authoring a feature in a trade online newsletter or printed journals within the target sector.
Priced from USD $1,500 per feature plus
media & production costs
Partnership Conference Presence: Promotional presence at major sponsorship conferences, particularly in motorsport as it has a similar technical and performance appeal to space exploration.
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Price based on conference costs
and level of visibility sought
On the successful sale of rights, Forbes-Space receives an agreed commission.
This commission is on a two-part scale at 15% for the first $250,000, and 10% of the total
sponsorship revenue from $250,001 upwards, subject to a minimum fee of USD $5,000.