SpaceCAD

Name

SpaceCAD

Legal name

SpaceCAD

Website

https://spacecad.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Model Rocket Design Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Spacecraft Avionics, Flight Computers & Software (IMABACAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) for Space Systems (IMABACAG)

Keywords

• Model rocket design
• Flight simulation software
• Rocket CAD software
• Rocketry education tools
• Rocket stability analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Möglingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Single User License: One-time perpetual license purchase for individual users at $49.00. Includes all future minor releases. Major version upgrades offered at reduced price.
2. Site Licenses (Multi-seat): Volume licenses for schools and classrooms: 5 users ($99), 10 users ($179), 25 users ($390). Single payment, non-recurring.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SpaceCAD develops and sells a Windows desktop application (SpaceCAD 7) for designing, simulating, and predicting the flight performance of model rockets. The software includes an interactive visual rocket designer, automatic stability calculation using Barrowman equations, one-click flight prediction, recovery simulation with wind drift, and a 800+ component parts database from multiple manufacturers. It is sold as a perpetual license, with site licenses available for schools and educational institutions.

Product overview

SpaceCAD offers a single unified desktop product — SpaceCAD 7 — a model rocket CAD software for Windows. The portfolio consists of the core SpaceCAD 7 application (single-user license at $49) and a multi-seat school/site license program for educational use. SpaceCAD 7 is the flagship design and simulation tool, while the school licenses provide discounted access for classrooms and competition teams. No SaaS, mobile, or cloud-based products are offered — the software runs locally on Windows PCs with perpetual licenses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SpaceCAD 7 Windows desktop application for designing, simulating, and predicting the flight performance of model rockets. Features include an interactive visual designer with 2D and 3D views, a parts database with over 800 rocket components, automatic stability calculation using the Barrowman method, one-click flight prediction, and construction printout tools for fins, parachutes, centering rings, and transitions. Sold as a perpetual single-user license at $49.
• SpaceCAD for Schools (Site Licenses) Multi-seat site license program for educational institutions, offering discounted perpetual pricing for classrooms with 5, 10, or 25 users. Includes curriculum-aligned teaching resources and support for rocketry competitions such as ARC and UKRoC.

Quantifiable outcome

• Most users run their first flight simulation within minutes of installation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• American Rocketry Challenge (ARC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial software partner for ARC (formerly Team America Rocketry Challenge), a national extracurricular hands-on project-based learning program for students designing, building and flying model rockets to meet specific mission parameters including altitude, flight time, and egg payload recovery.
• UK Youth Rocketry Challenge (UKRoC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial software partner for UKRoC, the largest model rocket showcase in the UK providing secondary school student teams (ages 11-18) experience in designing aerospace vehicles that meet specified mission and performance requirements.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• RASAero: RASAero is a Windows-based rocket aerodynamics simulation tool used by high-power and amateur rocketeers. It is comparable to SpaceCAD in that it provides flight and stability simulation, though it targets more advanced/high-power users rather than the model-rocket hobbyist and education segments.
• OpenRocket: OpenRocket is a free, open-source model rocket design and simulation program that competes with SpaceCAD on the same core use cases (stability calculation, flight prediction, parts database). It represents the most credible free alternative in the niche and a direct substitute for hobbyists unwilling to pay.
• RockSim (by Apogee Components): RockSim is the most direct commercial competitor to SpaceCAD — a Windows desktop rocket design and simulation program sold by Apogee Components, the largest US model rocketry retailer. It targets the same hobbyist and competition-builder segments with similar flight-prediction, stability, and parts-database functionality.

Broad incumbents

• MATLAB / Simulink (MathWorks): MATLAB/Simulink is a broad engineering simulation platform used in university aerospace courses (including at Cambridge, a disclosed SpaceCAD user) for modeling flight dynamics, control systems, and propulsion. It competes for the same advanced-educational and serious-hobbyist mindshare that SpaceCAD's simulation features address.
• Tinkercad (Autodesk): Tinkercad is Autodesk's free, browser-based 3D modeling tool widely used in K-12 STEM classrooms. It targets the same education market SpaceCAD pursues with school site licenses, and is increasingly the default CAD tool in schools adopting 1:1 Chromebook deployments where SpaceCAD cannot run.
• Autodesk Fusion 360: Fusion 360 is a general-purpose 3D CAD/CAM/CAE platform that hobbyists and education programs increasingly use for rocket and drone design. While not a domain-specific rocket simulator, it competes for the same hobbyist/maker CAD budget and is offered free for personal/educational use, making it a credible substitute.

Others

• ThrustCurve.org: ThrustCurve.org is a community-maintained database of rocket motor thrust curves and simulations, including the online simulation tool 'Altitude' for motor selection. It is adjacent to SpaceCAD as a complementary data resource used by the same hobbyist audience for engine performance data.
• Apogee Components: Apogee Components is the largest US model rocketry retailer and the publisher of RockSim (a direct SpaceCAD competitor). Its parts catalog is referenced inside SpaceCAD's database, and as a parts-plus-software ecosystem it represents both a supplier relationship and a competitive channel.
• Estes Rockets: Estes is the dominant US manufacturer of model rocket engines and kits, and its product line forms a major portion of SpaceCAD's engine and parts database. As the industry-defining hardware vendor, Estes is thematically tied to SpaceCAD through shared end-customers and co-marketing within the hobby.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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