2006

• Founded as Heimerdinger Engineering Services.
• First contract through Valador in support of NASA’s Program Analysis and Evaluation Division

2007

• Founded by Daniel Heimerdinger, Ph.D. and Evelyn Vance, Ph.D.
• Contract with Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, VA.
• Commenced the development of ExoScheduler, a tool for modeling the cost and operational effectiveness of satellite telemetry, tracking, and commanding networks

2008

• First contract in support of NOAA’s Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service
• Contract in support of the US Geological Service EROS Data Center
• Release of Exostrategies’ International Space Station Virtual Environment at the National Space Symposium
• First contract in support of the Department of Energy’s Chief Financial Officer

2009

• First license of the ExoScheduler tool to NESDIS
• Contract with NASA’s Johnson Spaceflight Center in support of Space Station Safety and Mission Assurance
• Contract in support of the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• First contract in support of the Air Force Satellite Control Network

2010

• Rebranded ExoScheduler to SONIC (Satellite Operations Network Infrastructure and Costing toolkit) expanded to include integrated cost estimating relationships for satellite network DDT&E, operations, sustainment, and WAN costs.