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LightRidge Solutions

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LightRidge Solutions is a portfolio company of ATL Partners that specializes in developing advanced technologies for sensing, data processing, and intelligence in space. They focus on providing high-performance sensors and electronics in small form factors for resilient and affordable space architectures. Their key customers include the U.S. Space Force, the intelligence community, and selected commercial and international clients.

commercialFounded 2004
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
lightridgesolutions.com
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Sierra Space parted ways with Geost, a subsidiary of LightRidge Solutions, after failing to finalize negotiations for supply of its 18 infrared-sensing payloads.

RelationshipsGeneralCapabilityValue 4.0Nov 12, 2024Sierra Space clears design review in military satellite program

The tracking layer satellites carry two configurations of optical sensor payloads built by GEOST, a LightRidge Solutions company.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jan 18, 2024Sierra Space awarded million$$$ prime contract by SDA

The tracking layer satellites carry two configurations of optical sensor payloads built by GEOST, a LightRidge Solutions company.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 17, 2024Sierra Space Secures $740M Prime Contract from SDA for 18 Missile Warning Satellites

Prior to joining LightRidge Solutions, Jim Congdon delivered command-and-control solutions and sensor data processing, exploitation, and dissemination chains for multiple sensor modalities including electro-optical/infrared, lidar, and hyperspectral imagery.

GovernanceValue 2.0Nov 29, 2023LightRidge Solutions expands leadership team

LightRidge Solutions’ operating units GEOST, LLC. and Ophir Corporation have been selected to fly defense and national security assets over more than 50 years.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 3.0Sep 11, 2023GEOST to build resiliency payload for Northrop Grumman Tracking Layer satellites

GEOST, LLC., a LightRidge Solutions company, was selected by Northrop Grumman to build and rapidly deliver the Starlite resiliency payload for Tracking Layer Tranche 1 satellites being developed for the Space Development Agency.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 4.5Sep 11, 2023GEOST to build resiliency payload for Northrop Grumman Tracking Layer satellites

LightRidge Solutions acquired space electronics supplier Trident Systems on 2023-07-17.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Jul 17, 2023LightRidge acquires space electronics supplier Trident Systems

LightRidge Solutions is comprised of GEOST, LLC, a provider of high-end space payloads that ATL Partners acquired in 2021.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Mar 21, 2023ATL Partners Forms Space & Airborne Platform Solutions

LightRidge Solutions focuses on providing small, powerful, and increasingly autonomous space and airborne sensors, space electronics, and C4ISR solutions that deliver time-critical knowledge for operational advantage.

CapabilityGeneralValue 2.0Mar 21, 2023ATL Partners Forms Space & Airborne Platform Solutions

LightRidge Solutions acquired Ophir Corporation, which develops and manufactures advanced airborne laser radar sensors, in late 2022.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Mar 21, 2023ATL Partners Forms Space & Airborne Platform Solutions

LightRidge Solutions is comprised of GEOST, LLC, a provider of high-end space payloads that ATL Partners acquired in 2021.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Mar 20, 2023ATL Partners forms Lightridge Solutions for space + airborne sensor + payload development

LightRidge Solutions acquired Ophir Corporation in late 2022.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Mar 20, 2023ATL Partners forms Lightridge Solutions for space + airborne sensor + payload development

LightRidge Solutions will absorb Geost Inc., a space sensor provider acquired by ATL Partners in 2021.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Mar 20, 2023ATL Partners forms new holding company focused on space and air sensors

ATL Partners formed a new holding company called LightRidge Solutions to oversee a portfolio of space and airborne sensors businesses on 2023-03-20.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.6Mar 20, 2023ATL Partners forms new holding company focused on space and air sensors

LightRidge Solutions is led by Bill Gattle, a 35-year industry veteran in space and airborne businesses.

GovernanceValue 3.0Mar 20, 2023ATL Partners forms Lightridge Solutions for space + airborne sensor + payload development

LightRidge Solutions will absorb Ophir Corp., an airborne laser radar developer acquired by ATL Partners in November 2022.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Mar 20, 2023ATL Partners forms new holding company focused on space and air sensors
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