Articles from Slingshot Aerospace

Slingshot Aerospace Achieves CMMC Level 2 Certification, Accelerating Secure AI Deployment Across U.S. Defense Missions
Slingshot Aerospace, a leader in AI-powered space domain awareness and operational intelligence solutions, has achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2, validating its ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in support of Department of Defense (DoD) missions. The certification reinforces Slingshot’s role as a trusted provider of AI-enabled capabilities operating within the nation’s most sensitive defense data environments.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · February 24, 2026
Slingshot Aerospace Awarded $27 Million Space Force Contract to Power the AI-Driven Training Environment for Space Warfare
Slingshot Aerospace, the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination and space modeling and simulation, earned a $27 million contract to modernize scenario training activities. Under the contract, Slingshot will advance the Space Force’s Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) program toward integrating existing training enterprise capabilities with AI-native technology that realistically mirror today’s rapidly evolving orbital threat landscape.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · January 15, 2026
Slingshot Aerospace Advances UK Space Agency’s Satellite Tracking Amid Orbital Congestion
Slingshot Aerospace, Ltd., the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination and space modeling and simulation, announced today it has been awarded the United Kingdom Space Agency Provision of Optical Delivery Partner contract to expand the UK’s satellite tracking capabilities.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · October 28, 2025
Slingshot Aerospace Debuts World’s First Rapid Space Domain Awareness Enablement Package
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, today announced the global commercial availability of Sovereign Space Object Tracking, a groundbreaking solution that enables nations to rapidly deploy autonomous, scalable space domain awareness (SDA) capabilities. The system is designed to give nations control over their own SDA capabilities. Slingshot’s offering includes field-proven sensors, state-of-the-art software to fuse observational data and expose AI-generated insights, and Slingshot’s operationally-maintained commercial catalog of space object tracking data—spanning orbital regimes from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · April 29, 2025
Slingshot Aerospace Awarded NOAA Contract to Develop Presentation Layer for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS)
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., the leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation, today announced it has been awarded a $13.3 million contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) to build the TraCSS user interface. This contract includes a 12-month development period ($5.3M) with four option years.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · November 26, 2024
Slingshot Aerospace Hires Former Spaceport Cornwall Head Melissa Quinn and Former Axiom Space Counsel Megan Sieffert
Slingshot Aerospace, the space data and tracking company dedicated to improving spaceflight safety and optimizing orbital operations, has announced two renowned space industry executives to its leadership team. Former Head of Spaceport Cornwall, Melissa Quinn, has joined Slingshot Seradata on June 1, 2023 and will succeed Tim Fuller as General Manager when he retires on July 1, 2023. On June 12th, former NASA Office of Inspector General attorney-adviser and Axiom Space Associate General Counsel, Megan Sieffert, will join Slingshot as General Counsel.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · June 6, 2023
Slingshot Aerospace Expands Global Sensor Network to Create World’s Largest Commercial Optical Tracking System for LEO Satellites
Slingshot Aerospace, the innovative technology company dedicated to improving spaceflight safety and optimizing orbital operations, today announced a significant expansion to the Slingshot Global Sensor Network's low-Earth orbit (LEO) tracking capabilities. The company is expanding its LEO tracking capabilities to make its network the largest commercial optical sensor network for LEO observation in the world – providing first-of-its-kind optical tracking of LEO objects at scale. By the end of 2023, Slingshot plans to deploy more than 80 new optical sensors, which include proprietary telescopes and ultra-wide field of view sensors, bringing the total network to more than 200 sensors across more than 20 sites globally. The expansion will include two new Southern Hemisphere sites, with additional sensors being added to many of the existing sites around the world. The expansion to the network will increase Slingshot’s daily LEO observations by 100x, resulting in more than one million observations per day.
By Slingshot Aerospace · Via Business Wire · April 12, 2023