This startup's new radar will help protect the ISS and satellites from space junk:
. But as hundreds of new satellites are being added to low Earth orbit every year, the risk of debris—and the millions of dollars of economic damage it can cause—is ever-increasing. It’s a risk that’s constantly on Dan Ceperley’s mind.
Ceperley may know about this risk better than few others. He’s the CEO of Menlo Park, California-based LeoLabs, which has a series of radar installations around the world aimed at keeping track of the thousands of small bits of debris in orbit and helping satellite owners avoid collisions. This diagram shows LeoLabs' radar faciities' 'fields of view' - the read areas will be covered by the new Azores' installation.The additional coverage “gives us timeliness, gives us data quality, gives us the ability to really accurately track all of the satellites and space debris,” he adds. “It also helps us with our steady march towards tracking smaller debris by having more capacity in the overall network.
Since then, the company has built radar installations in Alaska, Texas, New Zealand and Costa Rica. For its customers, it offers data on a software as a service model, both with its off-the-shelf software as well as custom software to pinpoint what customers want.
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