Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 on the Space 100 with a score of 73; LeoLabs ranks 59 with 71. LeoLabs is ahead on progress. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment. Level on production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. LeoLabs is based in Menlo Park, United States, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. LeoLabs is named in 29 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5.
LeoLabs sells orbital-object tracking and space-domain-awareness data services to government agencies, satellite operators, and other space customers.
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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.
29 signals name LeoLabs.
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Slingshot Aerospace sells Portal, an AI-powered platform for LEO operations and orbital tracking to space and government customers.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
5 signals name Slingshot Aerospace.
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Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 on the Space 100 with a score of 73; LeoLabs ranks 59 with 71. LeoLabs is ahead on progress. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment. Level on production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. LeoLabs is based in Menlo Park, United States, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. LeoLabs is named in 29 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5.
Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 on the Space 100 with a score of 73; LeoLabs ranks 59 with 71. LeoLabs is ahead on progress. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment. Level on production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. LeoLabs is based in Menlo Park, United States, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. LeoLabs is named in 29 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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