LeoLabs is a leading commercial provider of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Traffic Management (STM) services. The company operates a global network of phased array radars to track objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), including satellites and space debris, down to 2cm in diameter. LeoLabs provides data and analytics to satellite operators, commercial enterprises, and government agencies like the U.S. Space Force and the European Space Agency (ESA) for collision avoidance, mission risk assessment, and space situational awareness. Their services support safe and sustainable operations in space, enabling customers to monitor and respond to threats in an increasingly congested orbital environment.
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LeoLabs selected Argentina as the site for its Argentina Space Radar (AGSR).
LeoLabs plans to enhance tracking of space objects over the Southern Hemisphere with a new S-band radar in Argentina.
LeoLabs operates a global constellation of S-band, phased-array space radars that are strategically distributed across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the polar and equatorial regions.
When completed in late 2023, AGSR will expand LeoLabs’ global network to seven operational radar sites.
AGSR will provide LeoLabs with better situational awareness in the Southern Hemisphere and lower positional uncertainties for conjunction assessments.
LeoLabs’ geographic diversification of radar coverage in latitude and longitude is intended to improve the company’s space safety services, including collision avoidance for operators.
At LeoLabs, Matthew Shouppe led sales and product strategy for services for constellation operators, including tracking a growing database of satellites and space debris in Low Earth Orbit.
LeoLabs identified a 2023-01-27 close approach in which the Cosmos 2361 spacecraft and an SL-8 rocket body came within an estimated six meters of each other.
The sole-source contract provides the Department of Commerce access to LeoLabs space safety services that are currently used for more than 60% of operational satellites in low Earth orbit.
Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3) calls for the development of a national Space Traffic Management service managed by a civil government agency, and the Department of Commerce contract with LeoLabs advances progress toward fulfilling SPD-3.
The Department of Commerce will use LeoLabs orbital data products to support testing and evaluation of a prototype Space Traffic Management system.
LeoLabs received an award late last year to provide data and services to the U.S. Department of Commerce to support development of a U.S. civil-led Space Traffic Management system.
Under the Department of Commerce contract, LeoLabs will provide operationally proven tracking and conjunction alert data products for a subset of Resident Space Objects, including both real-time and archived data sets.
LeoLabs uses ground-based radars to track objects in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs tracks more than 20,000 space objects with 10 phased array radars at sites in Alaska, Australia, the Azores archipelago, New Zealand, Texas, and Costa Rica.
LeoLabs’ Southern Hemisphere S-band radars improve the firm’s ability to spot debris too small to be tracked by conventional means but large enough to damage or destroy spacecraft.
With the addition of WASR, LeoLabs' global network includes 10 independent radars across six operational sites.
LeoLabs began building the West Australian Space Radar in April 2024, finished construction in November 2024, and conducted testing in December 2024.
LeoLabs employees in Australia are responsible for Pacific daytime global radar operations, orbital analytics, and providing ongoing observation and analysis of regional activities in low-Earth orbit.
LeoLabs commissioned its West Australian Space Radar on 2025-01-30.