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Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3) calls for the development of a national Space Traffic Management service managed by a civil government agency, and the Department of Commerce contract with LeoLabs advances progress toward fulfilling SPD-3.
LeoLabs received an award late last year to provide data and services to the U.S. Department of Commerce to support development of a U.S. civil-led Space Traffic Management system.
The sole-source contract provides the Department of Commerce access to LeoLabs space safety services that are currently used for more than 60% of operational satellites in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs uses ground-based radars to track objects in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs began building the West Australian Space Radar in April 2024, finished construction in November 2024, and conducted testing in December 2024.
With the addition of WASR, LeoLabs' global network includes 10 independent radars across six operational sites.
LeoLabs’ Southern Hemisphere S-band radars improve the firm’s ability to spot debris too small to be tracked by conventional means but large enough to damage or destroy spacecraft.
LeoLabs tracks more than 20,000 space objects with 10 phased array radars at sites in Alaska, Australia, the Azores archipelago, New Zealand, Texas, and Costa Rica.
LeoLabs employees in Australia are responsible for Pacific daytime global radar operations, orbital analytics, and providing ongoing observation and analysis of regional activities in low-Earth orbit.
LeoLabs operates four S-band radars in the Southern Hemisphere.
LeoLabs has plans to expand its radar network further in 2023 and 2024.
LeoLabs commissioned its West Australian Space Radar on 2025-01-30.
LeoLabs began scanning the skies over the Southern Hemisphere in 2019 with the two radars that make up the Kiwi Space Radar.
LeoLabs reported a near-collision on 2023-01-27 between the defunct Cosmos 2361 spacecraft and an SL-8 rocket body at an altitude of 984 km.
The contract provides Resident Space Object tracking data and conjunction alerts powered by LeoLabs’ global network of radars.
Under the contract, LeoLabs will provide operationally proven tracking and conjunction alert data products for a subset of Resident Space Objects, including both real-time and archived data sets.
On 2022-09-09, LeoLabs secured an award to provide data and services to the U.S. Department of Commerce to support development of a U.S. civil-led Space Traffic Management system.
LeoLabs’ space safety services are currently utilized for over 60% of operational satellites in low Earth orbit.
LeoLabs operates a worldwide network of radars to track objects in low Earth orbit and received a contract to provide real-time and archived data on a subset of objects it tracks for use by the Office of Space Commerce in evaluating prototype space traffic management systems.
The Department of Commerce will utilize LeoLabs’ orbital data products to support testing and evaluation of a prototype Space Traffic Management system.