Hi, we’re LeoLabs. You’ve probably heard of us. We’re the company building commercial space radars and services for LEO, changing the way we track and manage objects in space. We’ve been doing that since 2016. (You’ve likely seen our free LEO visualization. No? Well, take a look. 🌎) We started…

Space safety and sustainability are complicated topics, touching on various technical, political, and legal questions. But there’s one question that matters most: how do we keep space clean? Short on time? 🎧 Listen to this edition of LeoPulse on-the-go via Spotify. First, we need to understand that there are only…

The collision risk in low Earth orbit (LEO) can be a confusing mix of terms and equations. To better understand the importance of collision risk for the short-term safety of operational constellations and long-term sustainability of LEO, we will follow an individual space object through a sequence of risk calculations…

In the opening credits of the 1998 blockbuster, Armageddon, an asteroid strikes Earth, causing fire to engulf the planet. “It happened before,” Charlton Heston warns, “It will happen again. It’s just a question of when.” Unlike 99% of this movie, Heston isn’t exactly wrong. Scientists believe an extinction-causing asteroid hit…

In 2019, there were 800 functional satellites in low Earth orbit. Now, there are over 5,000. That exponential growth makes even the most seasoned space veteran say, “Wow.” And remarkably, the industry is just getting started. Understandably, this is causing some to ask, “Are we running out of space in…

In this decade, an estimated 20,000 to 100,000 satellites will launch into Earth’s orbit. While this number alone is striking, when compared to the estimated 3,800 satellites launched during the previous decade, it becomes extraordinary. Most of this growth is occurring in low Earth orbit (LEO) — significantly raising the…

LeoLabs is excited to announce that we have entered into an agreement with the UK Space Agency (UKSA). As the UKSA grows its national capability for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), they recognize it is vital to have the most accurate information available on Resident Space Objects (RSOs) relevant to…

Our core mission at LeoLabs has always been to enable a safer and more sustainable operating environment in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). One of the most direct ways we can achieve this goal is to provide satellite owner-operators with accurate, timely location data on thousands of other satellites and pieces…

It’s now been five weeks since the Russian ASAT demonstration that struck the Cosmos 1408 satellite, causing enormous amounts of new space debris to be generated in a heavily utilized altitude band in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). In Part II of our analysis on this event, we considered the plausible…