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 is investing in analytics and tools to deliver timely updates on critical events in low-Earth orbit as its sensor network proliferates around the world.
LeoLabs provides customers with messages when potential collisions are detected and screens planned maneuvers to ensure they do not lead to conjunctions.
The contract with the JASDF delivers satellite and orbital debris tracking and collision avoidance services powered by LeoLabs' global network of phased array radars.
LeoLabs and ITOCHU Aviation are partnered to provide the contracted services to the JASDF and plan to grow their partnership in the future.
LeoLabs estimates that a major collision in LEO could reduce the average lifespan of spacecraft in the 650–1,050-kilometer altitude range by 10%.
LeoLabs is partnering with the National Security Space Association and members of the space industry in the SIFU campaign to provide immediate humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.
LeoLabs operates a network of radars to track objects in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs established a phased-array radar facility in Costa Rica in 2021 to begin tracking objects as small as two centimeters.
The Starlink team worked with the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron and LeoLabs to provide updates on the satellites using ground radars.
LeoLabs CEO Daniel Ceperley reported that low Earth orbit contains approximately 3,000 active satellites, 15,000 pieces of large debris, and about 250,000 pieces of small debris.
The Starlink team commanded the satellites into a safe-mode where they flew edge-on to minimize drag and worked with the Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron and LeoLabs to provide updates based on ground radars.
Darren McKnight is a senior technical fellow at LeoLabs and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics’ Space Debris Committee who assessed moderate confidence that the Yunhai-1 (02) event was a collision and identified the impactor size as likely 1–0.1 m.
LeoLabs is a private company based in California that uses ground-based radars to monitor low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs is tracking 17,000 space objects with phased array radars located in Alaska, New Zealand, Texas, and Costa Rica.
LeoLabs expects the debris cloud to spread into a shell around Earth similar to the aftermath of China’s 2007 antisatellite test and the 2009 collision of an Iridium satellite with a defunct Russian satellite.
LeoLabs was alerted early on 2021-11-15 that something was happening in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs initially detected six radar returns where there used to be one satellite after the Cosmos-1408 event and later reported seeing at least 30 distinct objects.
LeoLabs’ ground-based radars tracked Cosmos-1408 as a single object three times a day until detecting multiple objects at 11:20 a.m. Eastern on 2021-11-15, indicating the breakup occurred within the preceding day.
New Zealand has worked with LeoLabs to host space tracking radars located in the country.
When completed in 2022, the West Australian Space Radar will expand LeoLabs' total number of space radars to ten.