• Know with confidence where your satellite is. Receive precision orbit state vectors including uncertainties without having to hire dedicated orbit analysts or purchase expensive orbit determination software. No need to rely on less accurate TLEs to make crucial operational decisions.
• Have known service levels you can plan for. Get a record of orbital state updates for your satellite, and know when to expect the next updates with planned radar pass information. Have access to not only the orbit states and uncertainties, but the quality levels and timeliness of the underlying data as well.
• Streamline and simplify your satellite operations. LeoLabs Tracking and Monitoring provides an off-the-shelf, cloud-based solution for your primary or backup navigation needs. A RESTful API allows for efficient system integration to access your satellite data products, visualize orbit states and covariances, and share data within mission operations centers or your company website.

Two Line Element sets (TLEs) have long been used to convey location information for space objects. However, TLEs are created from mean Keplerian elements, and by definition, represent an approximation to the true orbit path. They do not provide instantaneous precise location of satellites, and they do not contain uncertainty information that many satellite operators rely on to make informed operational decisions. TLE-derived positions often deviate from the true position by a few kilometers, and the errors can grow much larger as the TLEs are propagated for more than one day.

In contrast, LeoLabs Tracking and Monitoring delivers fitted orbital state vectors (positions, velocities and uncertainties) and propagated ephemerides at times up to seven days into the future, using high fidelity force models for Earth gravity and atmospheric drag. Our data products convey instantaneous positions of the tracked satellites, with uncertainties commonly well below 100m RMS at epoch for well-tracked objects. Typical ephemeris position uncertainties are less than a few hundred meters when propagated by one day.

We continuously monitor the accuracy and realism of our radar data by comparing our solutions with those of multiple reference objects, including International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) satellites. From these comparisons, our automated system continuously updates our radar biases and residuals. Tracking and Monitoring also provides users with tools to monitor covariance trending and consistency between state updates.

We currently track operational cubesats as small as 0.25U (10cm x 10cm x 2.5cm). Contact us if you have a unique satellite size, and we will review the radar cross section (RCS) and reflectivity information and confirm our ability to track your satellite before you launch.

A new state vector is generated following each radar pass of a satellite. The frequency of state vector updates for any satellite depends on multiple factors, including orbital inclination, size of the satellite, altitude, and geometry of individual radar passes. On average, Tracking and Monitoring subscribers can expect new state vector updates to be delivered 2-5x per day, per satellite.

All our services are 100% web-based, with no software to install. We provide access to our data through our user website at platform.leolabs.space, or via RESTful API for ground system integration and automated delivery.

Organizations subscribing to the LeoLabs Collision Avoidance will receive conjunction notifications for their satellites, including real-time “streaming” data products accessible via RESTful APIs for efficient integration into operational mission architectures, and access to robust web tools for analyzing and visualizing conjunction event risk.

Yes, LeoLabs Collision Avoidance supports both continuous screenings using operator-provided definitive ephemerides, as well as on-demand screenings for test or candidate ephemerides with results returned typically within 30 seconds. Ephemeris uploads may be done programmatically and automated for more efficient satellite operations. Operator ephemeris screenings are performed against the LeoLabs object catalog, as well as ephemerides provided by other operators.

You will receive updates in real-time as new data is collected and processed. Our system generates a new CDM with every new state vector update on either object involved. Typically, this occurs once per radar pass or multiple times per day. For well-tracked objects, with three radars we currently generate 20-60 CDMs per conjunction event over an eight-day screening period. This number will increase further as we add more radars to our global network.

When our system detects high-risk conjunction events involving user satellites, the secondary object is automatically tasked for increased prioritization for future radar passes. This frequently leads to improved tracking quality of the object, with lowered uncertainties and a more accurate assessment of risk for the event. Users can see precisely when secondary objects were tasked by our system, and even submit additional tasking requests on-demand.

LeoLabs Collision Avoidance also provides users with direct access to data products for secondary objects, including state vectors and ephemerides with full covariance matrices.

Absolutely! While LeoLabs Collision Avoidance functions as a stand-alone commercial service for spaceflight safety, we believe that the more high-quality data is available to our users, the better. We encourage our customers to continue using conjunction alerts provided by the 18th SPCS and incorporate them into the platform.

LeoLabs can directly ingest third-party CDMs on an operator’s behalf and incorporate them into LeoLabs Collision Avoidance. Our system automatically identifies the conjunction event and correlates it with the same event detected independently in our system, aggregating all available sources of information into consolidated conjunction analysis reports. By combining ephemeris and CDM data from LeoLabs, 18th SPCS, and owner-operators into a single platform, no other solution provides a more complete system for conjunction risk assessment.