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The Slingshot Aerospace contract aims to expand the UK's satellite tracking capabilities.
Slingshot Aerospace was awarded a $5,300,000 contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce on 2024-11-26 to design the user experience for a next-generation space traffic coordination platform.
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 tallied 187 low Earth orbit satellites retired in 2023.
Slingshot Aerospace’s existing UK-based employees include Seradata’s remote-working team that Slingshot acquired in August 2022.
Slingshot Aerospace plans to double a UK team of 10 people 2024 to pursue more government and commercial customers.
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 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 plans to double a UK team of 10 people 2024 to pursue more government and commercial customers.
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 received an OSC order to provide space situational awareness data and services focused on the LEO regime for the Consolidated Pathfinder.
Slingshot Aerospace expects to deploy about 80 more telescopes by the end of 2023.
The additional autonomous optical sensors will be added to existing sites and to two new Southern Hemisphere sites that Slingshot Aerospace plans to build.
Slingshot Aerospace is expanding its network of ground-based optical telescopes to increase coverage of low Earth orbit.
Slingshot Aerospace expects to deploy about 80 more telescopes by the end of 2023.
Slingshot Aerospace acquired its network of telescopes when it bought Numerica’s space-tracking business last year.
By the end of 2023 Slingshot plans to deploy more than 80 new optical sensors including proprietary telescopes and ultra-wide field of view sensors.
In 2021 Slingshot Aerospace won a $2,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop an analytics tool that uses telemetry data from commercial satellites in low Earth orbit to identify potential sources of electronic interference on the ground.
Slingshot Aerospace signed a similar agreement with Spire Global to use data from Spire’s satellites.
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. raised $40,850,000 in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round.