Slingshot Aerospace is a space technology company that provides AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation. As a space situational awareness and space traffic management service provider, Slingshot's platform combines data from various sources to create a holistic view of the space domain. Its key products include Slingshot Beacon, Slingshot Laboratory, and Digital Space Twin, with major partners and customers including the U.S. Space Force, NOAA, and commercial space operators. Associated keywords include space safety, space sustainability, space security, and space domain awareness.
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Slingshot Aerospace raised $40,800,000 in a Series A2 funding round on 2022-12-06.
In August, Slingshot Aerospace acquired Numerica’s Space Division, a Colorado-based company that operates a global network of ground-based telescopes to track space objects.
Under a contract with the U.S. Space Force, Slingshot Aerospace developed a space digital twin to train military operators.
Slingshot Aerospace has raised $82,500,000 in funding to date.
Integrating SlingShot with Inmarsat’s L-TAC satellite service and an in-service VHF or UHF radio provides deployed troops with strategic communications over thousands of miles.
Spectra Group plans to expand SlingShot deployment from specialist forces to regular U.S. Military forces for land, sea, and air tactical communications.
The SlingShot system launched at the Military Satellite Conference in London in November 2014.
Spectra Group announced at the Association of the United States Army exhibition that more than 4,000 SlingShot SATCOM systems are in operation with U.S. Special Operations Forces.
Sherpa-ES will carry a chemical propulsion system with high delta-V performance for a mission that will perform a lunar slingshot around the moon to deliver payloads to geostationary orbit in 2023.
Spectra Group has delivered more than 7,000 SlingShot SATCOM systems to regular and specialist forces worldwide.
SlingShot was launched at the Military Satellite Conference in London in November 2014.
Slingshot Beacon is designed in collaboration with commercial space operators that represent more than 70% of satellites in Low Earth Orbit.
Slingshot Aerospace acquired Numerica, a company that operates a network of optical space sensors and has participated in Space Command commercial cell demonstrations.
Slingshot Beacon was launched one year prior to 2022-09-13 as a collaboration platform to help satellite operators share space traffic information.
Spaceflight plans a mid-2023 orbital transfer vehicle mission to launch Sherpa-ES, a bipropellant high delta-V OTV, aboard the GEO Pathfinder lunar slingshot mission.
Slingshot Aerospace is offering a free version of its space traffic control software to satellite operators worldwide as of 2022-09-13.
Spaceflight plans a mid-2023 orbital transfer vehicle mission to launch Sherpa-ES, a bipropellant high delta-V OTV, aboard the GEO Pathfinder lunar slingshot mission.
Spaceflight plans to launch Sherpa-ES, a bipropellant high delta-V OTV, aboard the lunar slingshot mission GEO Pathfinder in mid-2023.
The acquisitions expand Slingshot Aerospace’s ability to provide satellite and launch operators with space situational awareness and space traffic coordination solutions.
Seradata’s acquisition provides Slingshot Aerospace with a base of operations in the UK, expanding Slingshot’s capacity to serve customers globally.