How small organizations could participate in Space projects

Industry and big organizations recognize the value of VSEs, i.e. enterprises, organizations, projects or departments with up to 25 people [1], in contributing with emerging new technology that bigger organizations cannot use them as easily nor incorporate them in their solutions as fast. But often these potential small organizations, knowledgeable of providing these solutions, are not ready to comply with the stringent ECSS requirements for space projects at once. But what could be that minimum ‘process quality’ needed to enter in the space domain? This paper will present how these small organizations could demonstrate some quality in their processes in a step-wise approach to eventually participate in space projects in a faster and feasible way.