{"title":"Look Up Space vs Slingshot Aerospace: Defense & intelligence compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/look-up-space-vs-slingshot-aerospace","comparison":"Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 on the Space 100 with a score of 73; Look Up Space ranks 66 with 69. Look Up Space is ahead on progress and technology. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment and commercials. Level on production, positioning, firepower and leverage. Look Up Space is based in Toulouse, France, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. Look Up Space is named in 5 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5.","companies":[{"name":"Look Up Space","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/look-up-space","city":"Toulouse","country":"France","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Look Up is a French space situational-awareness and space-domain-awareness company that combines its SORASYS ground-radar network with the SYNAPSE data platform to detect, track and analyze satellites, debris and other orbital objects for defense, institutional and commercial customers. Founded by former French Space Commander Michel Friedling and former CNES space-safety chief Juan Carlos Dolado Pérez, it has an operational SORASYS-1 radar in Lozère, is deploying two additional radars in French Polynesia, and has named ecosystem relationships with CNES, EU SST, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, Tahiti Nui Telecom and Skynopy. ([lookupspace.com](https://www.lookupspace.com/about-us))","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":66,"score":69,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Look Up Space builds and operates space-surveillance radars, including SORASYS-1, that track objects in orbit for defense and space-security customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":5,"facts_total":9},{"name":"Slingshot Aerospace","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/slingshot-aerospace","city":null,"country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":52,"score":73,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":10,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"Slingshot Aerospace sells Portal, an AI-powered platform for LEO operations and orbital tracking to space and government customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":5,"facts_total":11}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}