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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.
The Office of Space Commerce selected COMSPOC, LeoLabs, and Slingshot Aerospace to participate in a Consolidated Pathfinder program on 2024-01-19.
Slingshot Aerospace will provide a catalog of objects it tracks in low Earth orbit using its group of optical telescopes and related services.
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.
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.
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.
Slingshot launched in July 2022 as a 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).
Slingshot’s proprietary sensors offer daytime LEO tracking capabilities that provide 5x the observation opportunities of night-only systems.
Slingshot Aerospace expects to deploy about 80 more telescopes by the end of 2023.
Slingshot Aerospace is expanding its network of ground-based optical telescopes to increase coverage of low Earth orbit.
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.
Slingshot’s Global Sensor Network will total more than 200 sensors across more than 20 sites globally after the planned expansion.
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.
The additional autonomous optical sensors will be added to existing sites and to two new Southern Hemisphere sites that Slingshot Aerospace plans to build.