The defunct satellite Cosmos 2361 and an SL-8 rocket body are two of countless pieces of space debris currently orbiting the Earth. LeoLabs says the collision could have sent thousands of new debris fragments into space that would remain for decades.

Leolabs latest radar facility for monitoring the heavens has opened for business in Western Australia, joining with its New Zealand sister site to improve coverage of the fraught Indo-Pacific region, CEO Dan Ceperley told Breaking Defense.

LeoLabs entered a new space radar into service, the West Australian Space Radar (WASR), giving the company coverage of the Southern Hemisphere in the Indo-Pacific region. 

LeoLabs pulled the curtain off a new project that’s been in the making for the last nine months: the Western Australia Space Radar (WASR), built along with local partners to augment the company’s satellite and debris tracking capabilities.

An old rocket body and military satellite—large pieces of space junk dating back to the Soviet Union—nearly smashed into each other on Friday morning, in an uncomfortable near-miss that would’ve resulted in thousands of pieces of debris had they collided.

LeoLabs announced the commissioning of its West Australian Space Radar to improve tracking of satellites and debris in low-Earth orbit.

LeoLabs spotted a near-miss between two defunct Soviet space objects, a rocket body and dead spy satellite, that missed one another by an incredibly small margin.

LeoLabs collision avoidance services are mentioned in this article exploring the benefits of more orbital data.