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 named longtime tech executive Tim Solms as its chief executive officer on 2024-02-07.
The Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce selected Slingshot Aerospace to provide data on objects in low Earth orbit for a project to create a civilian space traffic coordination and management system.
Slingshot Aerospace received an OSC order to provide space situational awareness data and services focused on the LEO regime for the Consolidated Pathfinder.
Slingshot Aerospace will provide a catalog of objects it tracks in low Earth orbit using its group of optical telescopes and related services.
The Office of Space Commerce selected COMSPOC, LeoLabs, and Slingshot Aerospace to participate in a Consolidated Pathfinder program on 2024-01-19.
Luch-5X is being monitored by American startups Slingshot Aerospace and DigitalArsenal using software and AI.
Psyche will perform a Mars gravity-assist flyby in May 2026 to slingshot toward the asteroid, saving propellant while gaining speed and changing direction.
The Psyche spacecraft will fly by Mars in May 2026 to use Mars’ gravity to slingshot toward asteroid Psyche, saving propellant while gaining speed and changing direction.
Spectra Group, in partnership with Inmarsat, has been selected to support Project Capstone 4 with the SlingShot satellite communications system.
Clarice Reid worked with Slingshot Aerospace’s AI/ML team to develop algorithms for classification, interpretation, and prediction of satellite behavior for improved space situational awareness.
Clarice Reid is a senior data scientist who began working at Slingshot Aerospace in 2022.
Audrey Schaffer joined Slingshot Aerospace as vice president of strategy and policy on 2023-09-11.
Slingshot launched in July 2022 as a 12-unit cubesat on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket.
The 19 Slingshot payloads were developed independently and integrated in a couple of weeks prior to launch in July 2022 of the 12-unit cubesat on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket.
Spectra Group expanded the SlingShot Tactical Operations Centre System (STOCS) to include the low UHF commercial band (410–440 MHz).
After delivering samples to Earth, the Tianwen-2 spacecraft will use its approach to the planet for a gravitational slingshot maneuver to send it toward main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS.
Slingshot Aerospace is expanding its network of ground-based optical telescopes to increase coverage of low Earth orbit.
Slingshot Aerospace acquired its network of telescopes when it bought Numerica’s space-tracking business last year.
Slingshot’s global sensor expansion aims to accelerate revisit rates and provide more persistent optical tracking of the more than 6,500 active satellites in LEO.
Slingshot’s proprietary sensors offer daytime LEO tracking capabilities that provide 5x the observation opportunities of night-only systems.