{"city":"Menlo Park","name":"LeoLabs","slug":"leolabs","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"partnership","value":"Signed an MoU with ClearSpace to advance space debris monitoring and sustainability","source":"ClearSpace"},{"date":"2026-08-28","type":"contract","value":"Space Force prototype contract supporting a space-domain-awareness demonstration","source":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-08-28","type":"product_launch","value":"Preparing a space-domain-awareness demonstration for U.S. national-security missions under a Space Force prototype contract","source":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-08-27","type":"revenue_band","value":"[object Object]","source":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-08-27","type":"deployment","value":"Deployed its first Scout radar in the Indo-Pacific and began tracking Chinese space assets within hours","source":"Payload"},{"date":"2026-08-27","type":"contract","value":"Space Force Prototype OTA for an SDA demonstration for U.S. national-security missions","source":"LeoLabs — 2026-08"}],"peers":[{"name":"L3Harris","rank":3,"slug":"l3harris","score":"91"},{"name":"Lockheed Martin Space","rank":5,"slug":"lockheed-martin-space","score":"88"},{"name":"Northrop Grumman Space","rank":9,"slug":"northrop-grumman-space","score":"85"},{"name":"True Anomaly","rank":16,"slug":"true-anomaly","score":"82"},{"name":"Rheinmetall","rank":31,"slug":"rheinmetall","score":"78.5"},{"name":"Slingshot Aerospace","rank":52,"slug":"slingshot-aerospace","score":"73"}],"stage":null,"state":"California","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"LeoLabs sells orbital-object tracking and space-domain-awareness data services to government agencies, satellite operators, and other space customers.","list":"Space 100","rank":59,"tier":"member","layer":"Applications","total":71,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":6},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Defense & intelligence"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-19","header":"Russian satellite Cosmos 2612 approached ICEYE-X36 to within 500 meters.","outlet":"Breaking Defense"},{"date":"2026-10-19","header":"Russia’s COSMOS 2612 maneuvered within extreme proximity of an ICEYE satellite.","outlet":"Via Satellite"},{"date":"2026-10-09","header":"LeoLabs detected dozens of debris fragments around the Soviet-era Meteor 2-7 weather satellite in low Earth orbit.","outlet":"ZDNet Korea"},{"date":"2026-09-15","header":"LeoLabs plans to sell new mobile space radar directly to allies","outlet":"Breaking Defense"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"ClearSpace and LeoLabs signed an MoU to advance space debris monitoring and sustainability.","outlet":"ClearSpace"},{"date":"2026-08-28","header":"Long March 6C upper stage fragmented in orbit after delivering seven satellites","outlet":"SpaceNews"}],"website":"https://leolabs.space","category":"Space · Applications","categories":[{"name":"Data platforms","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Ground & data"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-27T10:00:55.289+00:00","facts_total":37,"positioning":"LeoLabs is a US operator of a global phased-array radar network for LEO and VLEO tracking, the commercial gap-filler for the aging, northern-skewed Space Surveillance Network (with equatorial and Southern Hemisphere sites), plus a Delta product giving operators alerts on close approaches and obscured deployments. It was named to the competitive range of MDA's SHIELD homeland-defense program in January 2026 (a $151B ceiling, not an award), and its radar-versus-optical complementarity with Slingshot defines the space-sensing duopoly. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m from repeated annual government contracting.","sub_category":"Defense & intelligence","signals_total":29,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/leolabs","title":"LeoLabs · space, Menlo Park, California, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"LeoLabs sells orbital-object tracking and space-domain-awareness data services to government agencies, satellite operators, and other space customers. Space 100 rank 59 (score 71) 29 signals and 37 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}