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07.22.2020
SpaceNews: LeoLabs to construct fourth radar in Costa Rica
LeoLabs announced plans July 22 to construct a phased-array radar in Costa Rica to track objects as small as two centimeters across in low inclination orbits. The Costa Rican radar “fills a gap because with an equatorial radar we can track all orbits,” Ed Lu, former NASA astronaut and LeoLabs co-founder, told SpaceNews.
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04.27.2020
Military Embedded Systems: Commercial satellite tracking service unveiled by LeoLabs
LeoTrack, delivered as a web-based subscription, offers satellite operators a full range of monitoring capabilities, including precision tracking of satellites, orbital state vectors, predictive radar availability, scheduled passes, and real-time orbit visualization for constellations as well as individual satellites.
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11.19.2019
Aviation Week: Winners announced for Aviation Week's Annual Laureate Awards
Aviation Week Network announced today the winners of the 63rd Annual Laureate Awards, honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena. The 2020 Laureate Awards will take place on March 12, 2020 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
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10.24.2019
The Weather Channel: Interview with Dan Ceperley
Remember that scene in Gravity when Sandra Bullock goes spinning off into space after her shuttle is struck by debris? Space junk is a very real problem astronauts face, and @LeoLabs_Space is working to track it.
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10.24.2019
SpaceNews: New Zealand space agency aims for sustainability, agility, collaboration
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New Zealand Space Agency is moving quickly to develop a comprehensive strategy reflecting its priorities including sustainability, agility and collaboration, said agency head Peter Crabtree.
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10.17.2019
Otago Daily Times: Space radar keeps satellites safer
The Kiwi Space Radar — built by California-based LeoLabs in Naseby in the past year — was opened yesterday in front of an international audience that heard New Zealand's space sector was growing rapidly in size and value.
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10.15.2019
Stuff: Radar in Central Otago will help reveal size of space junk problem
Satellite collisions should become less common thanks to a radar station that has been built on a farm near Naseby in Central Otago to track hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk.
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10.15.2019
Otago Daily Times: Kiwi space radar set to track space junk
An international space tracking facility built in Naseby is a "next generation'' world first, those behind the project say. The LeoLabs Kiwi Space Radar would be the first in the world to track space debris smaller than 10cm, LeoLabs chief executive Dan Ceperley said.
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10.15.2019
Newshub: New Otago-built Kiwi space radar will track the movements of satellites, space debris
Four giant halfpipes in the central Otago township of Naseby could help keep vital mapping satellites up in the air. They form a new Kiwi Space Radar, which will track the daily movements of thousands of satellites and pieces of space debris.
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10.15.2019
Devdiscourse: LeoLabs launches Kiwi space radar and new era of transparency in LEO
“The Kiwi Space Radar raises the bar on addressing the threat of collisions that have never before been tracked in LEO,” said Michael Nicolls, co-founder, and LeoLabs Chief Technology Officer.
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09.09.2022
LeoLabs Announcement
LeoLabs Awarded Contract From the US Department of Commerce to Support Space Traffic Management Prototype
This agreement delivers industry-leading capabilities to the US Government, including Resident Space Object tracking data and conjunction alerts, powered by LeoLabs global network of radars.
08.22.2022
LeoLabs Announcement
LeoLabs Wins Contract Award to Support Japan Air Self Defense Force with Commercial Space Domain Awareness
This agreement delivers industry-leading data and services to Japan, including Satellite and Orbital Debris Tracking and Collision Avoidance, powered by LeoLabs' global network of space radars.
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10.19.2021
LeoLabs Announcement
LeoLabs Commits to Australia as Strategic Site for 6th Space Radar
As the newest sensor in the growing LeoLabs global network, the West Australian Space Radar will provide strategic tracking of satellites and space debris in the Southern Hemisphere.
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08.05.2021
LeoLabs Announcement
LeoLabs signs multi-year agreement with New Zealand Government for space regulatory and sustainability platform
LeoLabs announces a multi-year agreement with the New Zealand Space Agency and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) for expanded development of its space regulatory and sustainability platform.
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06.16.2021
LeoLabs Announcement
LeoLabs Selects Azores for next Space Radar, Accelerates European Presence
LeoLabs today announced the Azores as the site for its next space radar. As a strategic addition to LeoLabs expanding global constellation of LEO sensors, the Azores Space Radar will go operational in the first half of 2022.
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06.03.2021
LeoLabs Announcement
LeoLabs Closes $65 Million Financing to Address LEO "Data Deficit"
“This latest round of funding is a testament to our mission to inform, secure and enable the revolution of services entering low Earth orbit,” said Dan Ceperley, LeoLabs CEO and co Founder. “It sets the stage for the next phase of our growth as we build our team and our global footprint in the SSA domain. We now have the resources to accelerate the global deployment of next-generation radars for tracking small debris and satellites in LEO, and to expand development of our scalable LEO mapping and SSA platform.”
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04.22.2021
LeoLabs Announces Costa Rica Space Radar “Fully Operational”
April 22, 2021—Menlo Park, CA -- LeoLabs, Inc., the leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, today confirmed “fully operational” status for its Costa Rica Space Radar, effective immediately. This new phased-array radar reinforces LeoLabs’ leadership as the premier data and services provider to inform and protect the rapidly expanding commercial and governmental activities in LEO. The achievement represents the world’s most advanced commercial space radar for mapping low Earth orbit, deployed in record time.
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07.23.2020
LeoLabs Selects Costa Rica as Site for Next Generation Space Radar
MENLO PARK, CA, USA July 22, 2020 -- LeoLabs, Inc., the leading commercial provider of low Earth
orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, today announced Costa Rica as
the site for its next space radar.
Expansion into the equatorial region will protect satellites from small debris and drive sustainability in LEO.
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05.13.2020
Introducing LeoLabs Collision Avoidance
We’re excited to release LeoLabs Collision Avoidance, our commercial suite of services for operational safety of flight. This is the first time a single commercial company has been able to offer end-to-end services for operators in LEO; from radar observations of space debris to web analytics.
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10.14.2019
LeoLabs unveils Kiwi space radar
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — LeoLabs, Inc., the leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and space situational awareness (SSA) services, introduced a new era of transparency in LEO today with the launch of its Kiwi Space Radar (KSR).
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