Stell's Standards Library Turns Hundreds of Pages of Industry Standards into Ready-to-Use Requirements

Aerospace and defense programs live and die by standards. Engineers building a rocket must comply with NASA technical standards. Teams working on a DoW contract constantly reference MIL rules. These documents, published by government agencies and other industry bodies, act as an authoritative framework that defines how complex systems get made.

Standards ensure safety, reliability, and usability. They can also, at times, become a time sink for engineers who expend considerable resources gathering, uploading, and refining these massive documents into ready-to-use engineering requirements.

Stell’s mission is to help systems engineers cut down on manual work. When we noticed engineering teams spending hours parsing requirements from the same sets of standards, often hundreds of pages long, it became clear that this was a problem worth solving.

That’s why we built the Stell Standards Library, a shared repository of commonly-referenced aerospace and engineering standards available to all Stell users. These standards are uploaded by the Stell team, using the same import algorithm available across all of Stell, so our users can immediately interact with them via Zelda, Stell’s AI agent, move them into any programs they’re working on, and instantly create traceability links to a particular specification.

Finding the right standard is just as fast. With a single search, users can surface Standards Library content alongside standards their own workspace. Search with Zelda is even more powerful. A user could, for example, ask Zelda to “find all standards related to propellant handling and storage.”

Take document 91-710, a 360-page U.S. Space Force standard outlining mandatory safety rules for rockets, payloads, and ground equipment launched from Air Force ranges across the country. There are more than 2,000 requirements in that document, and if done manually, it could take hours or days to prepare it for use. But because it’s in Stell’s Standards Library, all 2,131 requirements are ready to be moved into a program, linked to user-owned specifications, and integrated directly into compliance tracking workflows. When users ask Zelda to handle that process, it’s even faster and more streamlined.

The Standards Library is available to all Stell users. Book a demo to see it for yourself.