Slingshot Aerospace wins UK Space Agency contract to expand optical satellite-tracking network

Slingshot Aerospace has been awarded the UK Space Agency’s Provision of Optical Delivery Partner contract to expand Britain’s optical satellite-tracking network, enhancing the country’s ability to detect, track and characterise satellites and orbital debris. The work will strengthen the UK’s sovereign space-domain awareness capability.

Discovered 2025-10-28T05:22:18.080941-07:00 | 2025-10-28T05:22:18.080941-07:00

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  • Strengthens UK sovereign space-domain awareness by expanding optical tracking capacity at a time when the UK reports adversaries regularly attempt to monitor and jam British military satellites — see UK Space Command reporting on Russian activity (https://hype.aero/?story=16143ddb-b594-4807-85b3-bc6ea54698e2).
  • Adds ground-based optical coverage that complements Europe’s first space-based surveillance satellite, improving cross-domain detection, tracking and characterization of objects in LEO (https://hype.aero/?story=24425e69-de69-4396-a017-91dd9ca5f87c).
  • Contract integrates optical sensors with AI-enabled processing, aligning with recent demonstrations of space-to-ground optical/laser links and wider moves to layer optical and ground sensor networks for space-domain awareness (https://hype.aero/?story=2cf29857-fabf-40ab-a884-e7b450a3410a).

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