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 Collision Avoidance is a cloud-based platform built on the LeoLabs SaaS data platform and powered by LeoLabs’ global network of radars.
LeoLabs plans to expand its radar network to track small debris in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs makes LeoLabs Collision Avoidance available worldwide and provides additional information via info@leolabs.space and https://www.leolabs.space.
Over the next 24 months, as LeoLabs adds additional high-fidelity phased array radars to its global sensor network, LeoLabs Collision Avoidance will expand collision alerts to include previously uncatalogued small debris.
LeoLabs operates three ground-based phased array radars to track satellites and debris in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs Collision Avoidance is 100% cloud-based and requires no local software installation.
LeoLabs operates a network of ground-based radars to track objects in low Earth orbit.
Observations by LeoLabs and the Defense Department after the 2020-01-29 conjunction confirmed both IRAS and GGSE 4 were intact.
LeoLabs identified a potential conjunction between the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the Gravity Gradient Stabilization Experiment (GGSE) 4 satellite on 2025-01-27.
LeoLabs estimated on 2025-01-27 that there was approximately a 1-in-100 chance that IRAS and GGSE-4 would collide at 6:39 p.m. Eastern on 2025-01-29 at an altitude of about 900 km nearly directly above Pittsburgh.
LeoLabs completed construction of the Kiwi Space Radar to track objects in low Earth orbit as small as two centimeters.
LeoLabs created a cloud-based platform to help monitor satellites in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs completed construction of the Kiwi Space Radar on New Zealand’s South Island and is obtaining data for testing and calibration.
The Kiwi Space Radar expands LeoLabs' radar network to the southern hemisphere.
The Kiwi Space Radar operates at a higher frequency than LeoLabs’ earlier sensors and was designed to track an estimated 250,000 additional objects down to two centimeters in size.
LeoLabs plans to include data from the Kiwi Space Radar in its products and services by the end of the year.
LeoLabs’ first two radars are located in Alaska and Texas and are designed to track objects as small as ten centimeters.
The Kiwi Space Radar operates at a higher frequency than LeoLabs' earlier sensors.
LeoLabs plans to install radars at three additional sites in the next couple of years, including one near the equator and additional sites a little further north and a little further south to improve coverage of large constellations at higher inclinations.
LeoLabs states that the Kiwi Space Radar will enable thousands of new satellites to safely use low Earth orbit.