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 has plans to expand its radar network further in 2023 and 2024.
LeoLabs operates four S-band radars in the Southern Hemisphere.
LeoLabs began scanning the skies over the Southern Hemisphere in 2019 with the two radars that make up the Kiwi Space Radar.
LeoLabs reported a near-collision on 2023-01-27 between the defunct Cosmos 2361 spacecraft and an SL-8 rocket body at an altitude of 984 km.
LeoLabs’ space safety services are currently utilized for over 60% of operational satellites in low Earth orbit.
The Department of Commerce will utilize LeoLabs’ orbital data products to support testing and evaluation of a prototype Space Traffic Management system.
On 2022-09-09, LeoLabs secured an award 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 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 operates a worldwide network of radars to track objects in low Earth orbit and received a contract to provide real-time and archived data on a subset of objects it tracks for use by the Office of Space Commerce in evaluating prototype space traffic management systems.
The contract provides Resident Space Object tracking data and conjunction alerts powered by LeoLabs’ global network of radars.
An analysis by LeoLabs found that the 2007 Chinese ASAT test and the November Russian ASAT test accounted for nearly 40% of all high-risk conjunctions in space in the first four months of 2021.
LeoLabs is a seven-year-old company based in Menlo Park, California that operates a worldwide network of ground-based radars for LEO monitoring.
LeoLabs characterizes its infrastructure as a large, distributed network of radar sensors designed to provide continuous, fast-revisit LEO tracking data.
LeoLabs received a multimillion-dollar contract to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) data and services to the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF).
LeoLabs has a multimillion-dollar contract dated 2022-05-24 to provide space domain awareness data, services, and training to the Japan Air Self Defense Force.
LeoLabs plans to add four more radars by the end of 2022 at additional sites in Australia and the Azores.
LeoLabs operates a commercial network of phased array radars that generates the largest number of LEO observations among commercial and government SSA networks.
LeoLabs operates phased array radars in Alaska, New Zealand, Texas, and Costa Rica.
Japan’s Ministry of Defense awarded the LeoLabs contract through ITOCHU Aviation Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation.
LeoLabs provides visualization capabilities that can display more than 19,000 objects in low Earth orbit.