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Slingshot Aerospace

United States · Space · Applications / Defense & intelligence · slingshot.space

Slingshot Aerospace sells Portal, an AI-powered platform for LEO operations and orbital tracking to space and government customers.

Space 100 · rank 52 · score 73 →Edition: November 2026

Positioning

Slingshot Aerospace is a US space-situational-awareness company running 220+ optical sensors at 22 sites on five continents (LEO-through-GEO tracking, day and night) with a product stack spanning a Global Sensor Network, sovereign space-object tracking, the Agatha AI anomaly-explanation engine, and on-demand tasking. It is the optical half of the commercial SSA duopoly (complement to LeoLabs' radar), embedding into operator workflows as its moat, with a Portal platform expansion (January 2026). It holds the largest single visible award among the SDA startups (value not captured this pass); revenue is estimated at 10-100m.

Latest signals

  • Slingshot Aerospace’s Portal grew to more than 630 users across 330 organizations in 19 countries.Payload
  • Slingshot Aerospace added AI-powered capabilities to its Portal platform for LEO operations.Payload
  • Slingshot Aerospace won a $69.2 million U.S. Space Force contract for AI-enabled satellite-defense training.SpaceNews
  • Slingshot Aerospace located and cataloged the previously unaccounted-for Russian satellite Mozhayets-6 in MEO.Payload
  • UK Space Agency awarded Slingshot Aerospace a contract to expand orbital tracking.Payload

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Facts, with sources

  • [object Object]Revenue band · Payload
  • 630Customer · Payload
  • AI-powered capabilities added to the Portal platform for LEO operationsProduct launch · Payload
  • 16600Deployment · Payload

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Scores, Space (of 10)

Deployment10
Production6
Commercials6
Progress8
Technology6
Positioning8
Firepower6
Leverage8

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Peers in Defense & intelligence

3L3Harris · 915Lockheed Martin Space · 889Northrop Grumman Space · 8516True Anomaly · 8231Rheinmetall · 78.559LeoLabs · 71

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Categories

SpaceSpace · Ground & data / Data platforms

Questions this page answers

What does Slingshot Aerospace do?

Slingshot Aerospace sells Portal, an AI-powered platform for LEO operations and orbital tracking to space and government customers. Slingshot Aerospace is a US space-situational-awareness company running 220+ optical sensors at 22 sites on five continents (LEO-through-GEO tracking, day and night) with a product stack spanning a Global Sensor Network, sovereign space-object tracking, the Agatha AI anomaly-explanation engine, and on-demand tasking. It is the optical half of the commercial SSA duopoly (complement to LeoLabs' rada

Where does Slingshot Aerospace rank in space?

Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 of 100 on the Space 100 (November 2026 edition) with a score of 73 out of 100, in Defense & intelligence (Applications). Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence.

Who are Slingshot Aerospace's peers in Defense & intelligence?

L3Harris (rank 3), Lockheed Martin Space (rank 5), Northrop Grumman Space (rank 9), True Anomaly (rank 16), Rheinmetall (rank 31), LeoLabs (rank 59).

Where is Slingshot Aerospace based and when was it founded?

Slingshot Aerospace is based in United States.

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