LeoLabs, NASA Enter Agreement for Space Data

LeoLabs has entered right into a Space Act Agreement, or SAA, with NASA to discover the potential use of its knowledge to help the company’s Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, or CARA, program.

Under the settlement, LeoLabs will present satellite metric observations and radar cross-section data and orbital security merchandise to NASA CARA. The program carries out conjunction assessments, which allow the company to foretell the place of its belongings in orbit and different identified objects in house to keep away from collisions.

How LeoLabs Data Will Support NASA

LeoLabs displays almost 25,000 objects and related exercise in low Earth orbit. The orbital intelligence supplier delivers monitoring info with precision higher than 10 meters for vary and 10 centimeters per second for radial velocity.

Data is delivered to clients in near-real time.

NASA intends to mix the corporate’s knowledge with the Department of Defense’s Space Surveillance Network monitoring knowledge to create a mixed CA resolution for monitoring of the more and more congested LEO.

“LeoLabs has long set the standard for proven, commercial space safety services and is well positioned to support a combined commercial-government solution for the NASA conjunction assessment process,” commented LeoLabs CEO Tony Frazier, a six-time Wash100 Award winner. “We are committed to offering seamless data integration to ensure resilient operations in a growing threat environment and this SAA will further enhance our ability to meet this mission need.”