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 used AI to track unusual maneuvers by Russia’s Luch Olymp-K-2 inspector satellite last year.
Slingshot Aerospace partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create Agatha, an AI-enabled system for identifying potentially harmful space vehicles within large satellite constellations.
Slingshot Aerospace won a DARPA contract of undisclosed value after submitting a white paper in response to a Broad Agency Announcement.
The Agatha AI is in operation within Slingshot’s platform used by customers.
Slingshot Aerospace is in discussions with U.S. government and allied organizations, as well as commercial satellite operators, about offering Agatha as part of advanced space situational awareness services.
Slingshot Aerospace developed an artificial intelligence system called Agatha that monitors satellite behavior and identifies anomalous spacecraft in large constellations.
Slingshot Aerospace trained Agatha on over six decades of simulated constellation data created by the company.
Slingshot Aerospace tallied 187 low Earth orbit satellites retired in 2023.
Slingshot Aerospace was founded in 2017 and has locations in California, Colorado, and the United Kingdom.
Slingshot Aerospace is opening offices in the United Kingdom to expand its space traffic coordination and analysis business globally.
Slingshot Aerospace provided tracking data last year to help maneuver the Inmarsat I-6 F1 satellite to an orbital slot in a congested area of geostationary orbit.
Slingshot Aerospace is expanding into full operations from the United Kingdom and is initially recruiting software engineers and data analysts to build out data, analytics, services, and go-to-market business supporting international customers outside the United States.
Slingshot Aerospace’s global sensor network delivers millions of observations per year to the U.S. Space Command’s Joint Commercial Operations Cell, which includes a U.K.-based unit, to support space security for the U.S., the U.K., and their allies.
Slingshot Aerospace acquired the space division of Colorado-based Numerica in 2022, which operates a global network of ground-based telescopes to track space objects.
Slingshot Aerospace’s existing UK-based employees include Seradata’s remote-working team that Slingshot acquired in August 2022.
Slingshot Aerospace aims to open an office in London this summer to deploy its Space Domain Awareness offerings directly out of the United Kingdom, from the company’s global sensor network through to modeling and simulation of the space environment.
Slingshot Aerospace plans to double a UK team of 10 people 2024 to pursue more government and commercial customers.
In January, the U.S. Office of Space Commerce placed orders with COMSPOC, LeoLabs, and Slingshot Aerospace to provide data and services on objects in low Earth orbit.
Slingshot Aerospace was selected by the United States Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce to provide LEO space situational awareness data and services for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) Consolidated Pathfinder project.
Slingshot Aerospace was launched in 2017.