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Slingshot Aerospace

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commercialFounded 2017
El Segundo, California, United States
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The Slingshot Aerospace contract aims to expand the UK's satellite tracking capabilities.

NARRATIVE GROWTH10/29/2025UK Space Agency Awards SDA Contract to Slingshot Aerospace

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/26/2024Slingshot selected to design user experience for U.S. space traffic system

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/5/2024DARPA harnesses AI to keep tabs on space weapons, spy satellites on orbit

Slingshot Aerospace tallied 187 low Earth orbit satellites retired in 2023.

NARRATIVE CAPABILITY4/30/2024Orbital congestion reaching critical levels, warns new report

Slingshot Aerospace’s existing UK-based employees include Seradata’s remote-working team that Slingshot acquired in August 2022.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/7/2024Slingshot Aerospace sets up UK base for global expansion

Slingshot Aerospace plans to double a UK team of 10 people 2024 to pursue more government and commercial customers.

NARRATIVE PLAN3/7/2024Slingshot Aerospace sets up UK base for global expansion

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/7/2024Slingshot Aerospace sets up UK base for global expansion

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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH3/7/2024Slingshot Aerospace sets up UK base for global expansion

Slingshot Aerospace plans to double a UK team of 10 people 2024 to pursue more government and commercial customers.

NARRATIVE GROWTH3/7/2024Slingshot Aerospace sets up UK base for global expansion

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.

NARRATIVE PLAN2/8/2024Slingshot names a new CEO

Slingshot Aerospace received an OSC order to provide space situational awareness data and services focused on the LEO regime for the Consolidated Pathfinder.

NARRATIVE PLAN1/20/2024Office of Space Commerce initiates TraCSS Pathfinder projects

Slingshot Aerospace expects to deploy about 80 more telescopes by the end of 2023.

NARRATIVE PLAN4/12/2023Slingshot’s space-tracking network to extend coverage of low Earth orbit

The additional autonomous optical sensors will be added to existing sites and to two new Southern Hemisphere sites that Slingshot Aerospace plans to build.

NARRATIVE PLAN4/12/2023Slingshot’s space-tracking network to extend coverage of low Earth orbit

Slingshot Aerospace is expanding its network of ground-based optical telescopes to increase coverage of low Earth orbit.

NARRATIVE CAPABILITY4/12/2023Slingshot’s space-tracking network to extend coverage of low Earth orbit

Slingshot Aerospace expects to deploy about 80 more telescopes by the end of 2023.

NARRATIVE GROWTH4/12/2023Slingshot’s space-tracking network to extend coverage of low Earth orbit

Slingshot Aerospace acquired its network of telescopes when it bought Numerica’s space-tracking business last year.

ORG RELATIONSHIP4/12/2023Slingshot’s space-tracking network to extend 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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH4/12/2023Slingshot Aerospace expands their commercial optical tracking system for LEO satellites

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP1/19/2023HawkEye 360 satellites to provide data for U.S. Space Force threat-detection system

Slingshot Aerospace signed a similar agreement with Spire Global to use data from Spire’s satellites.

ORG RELATIONSHIP1/19/2023HawkEye 360 satellites to provide data for U.S. Space Force threat-detection system

Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. raised $40,850,000 in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL12/12/2022Slingshot Aerospace has raised million$$ in oversubscribed Series A2 funds
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