After three years of pilot programs, the U.S. Space Force has set up new agreements meant to let the service quickly tap into commercial companies’ space tracking networks in ti ...

The Space Force recently revealed plans to launch a new satellite system that will track air, ground and sea moving targets. The service will deploy the Resilient Radar System-Ground, or RRS-G, ...

LeoLabs operates six radar sites, including this one in Western Australia, that monitor objects in low Earth orbit. (LeoLabs) When LeoLabs was founded in 2016, its focus was on using a network of ...

SpaceX last week unveiled an online tool, called Stargaze, for tracking space objects and warning of potential on-orbit collisions — with a promise to provide the system’s space situational awareness ...

Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts reenter our planet’s atmosphere more than three times a day. When these ...

Seeking to close sensor tracking gaps against maneuvering hypersonic missiles throughout their entire flight envelopes, the Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on ...

A critical space-based capability was added to America’s ballistic missile defenses Sept. 25 when two U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstrator ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has delivered the first of two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites to the U.S. Air Force’s Cape Canaveral Air Station for ...

Launched in 2016 by five nations; now joined by 19, the EU tracking programme is crucial for protecting satellites and ...

LeoLabs’ current space radars scan electronically in one dimension to detect and track objects in low Earth orbit. Credit: LeoLabs Commercial space situational awareness provider LeoLabs has secured a ...

When LeoLabs was founded in 2016, its focus was on using a network of ground-based radars to track space debris and satellites. Its customers were commercial companies and civil agencies concerned ...