Company - Slingshot Aerospace
Product/Service - Slingshot Global Sensor Network
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
Space Traffic Management
- Status
- Active
- First launch
- Not applicable
Slingshot Aerospace Offering Sovereign Space Domain Awareness Capabilities, 2025-04-29.
- Slingshot’s offering gives potential customers options to choose their sensors, which include the company’s Horus and Argus starting arrays that peer into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous orbit (GEO), respectively, and Varda, a gimbaled electro-optical sensor that can see objects in LEO and GEO in daytime.
- Customers that acquire their own sensors will also be able to tap into Slingshot’s global network, which consists of more than 220 sensors at 22 sites.
Acquired Numerica Space and Seradata in 2022.
- The Office of Space Commerce is charged with establishing a civil space traffic coordination system, which it calls the Traffic Coordination System for Space or TraCSS. It is designed to take over from the Defense Department responsibilities for tracking space objects and providing warnings of potential conjunctions to government and commercial satellite operators.
- Two of the companies will provide both catalogs of objects they track in low Earth orbit — LeoLabs using its network of radars and Slingshot with its group of optical telescopes — as well as related services. The third company, COMSPOC, will provide orbit determination services. A fourth company, yet to be selected, will provide data integrity services.
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