Agreement delivers industry-leading capabilities to the US Government, together with Resident Space Object monitoring knowledge and conjunction alerts, powered by LeoLabs international community of radars
MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — LeoLabs, Inc., the world’s main industrial supplier of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) providers, introduced at present an award to present knowledge and providers to the US Department of Commerce to assist the growth of a US civil- led Space Traffic Management (STM) system. The announcement was made at the ninth session of the National Space Council in Houston, Texas.
Under this contract, LeoLabs will present its operationally confirmed monitoring and conjunction alert knowledge merchandise for a subset of Resident Space Objects (RSOs), together with each real-time and archived knowledge units. The Department of Commerce will make the most of these orbital knowledge merchandise to assist testing and analysis of a prototype STM system.
“We are honored to be selected by the Department of Commerce to provide high accuracy tracking and conjunction alert data products for its Space Traffic Management system,” stated Dan Ceperley, LeoLabs CEO and co-founder. “The traffic in LEO is growing exponentially, driven by commercial innovation and economic opportunity. Our space operations infrastructure is the only system designed to scale with that growth. LeoLabs was founded to drive innovation in Space Traffic Management, therefore we look forward to working with the US Government on this effort to ensure the continued success of the space industry.”
This settlement demonstrates continued US management in STM and marks vital progress by the Department of Commerce in direction of fulfilling Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3), which requires the growth of a brand new nationwide STM service managed by a civil authorities company. This contract was issued as a sole-source award, offering the Department of Commerce entry to LeoLabs house security providers that are presently utilized for over 60% of operational satellites in LEO.
About LeoLabs (www.leolabs.house)
LeoLabs supplies essential mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) providers to assist safe secure and sustainable operations in low Earth orbit (LEO). LeoLabs providers are powered by a vertically built-in house operations infrastructure stack, consisting of a worldwide community of proprietary phased-array radars and a complicated cloud computing structure. Our knowledge merchandise present real-time alerts and insights to our authorities and industrial prospects, permitting them to accomplish mission aims, mitigate threat, and keep aggressive benefit in a always evolving risk atmosphere.
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