Meet us at #CES! Our team is onsite in Vegas this week at the world’s biggest tech event – CES! Be sure to mark your calendar to hear from Melissa Quinn, General Manager of Slingshot’s International Business Unit. Melissa will be taking to the Space Tech Stage to discuss space sustainability – how sustainable space activity has changed over the past 20 years and what technology is needed to support a sustainable future. Details below – you won’t want to miss it! 🎤 Constellations and Debris: Maintaining Sustainable Space Practices 📅 Tuesday, January 7 | 1:00 - 1:40 PM PT 📍 LVCC, West Level 2, W218 Interested in meeting with Slingshot at CES? Schedule a meeting at [email protected]

Slingshot Aerospace is thrilled to win the 2024 @SpaceNews Icon Award in the category of Space Safety and Security!

Slingshot Aerospace has been awarded a $13.3M contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) to develop the Presentation Layer for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) – the future of space traffic coordination! Slingshot will develop the website and user interface for TraCSS, launching in 2025, which will serve as the central platform for satellite operators worldwide to safely navigate space. Slingshot will leverage existing software built for our own space traffic coordination software, Slingshot Beacon, to accelerate the development of an intuitive system that helps satellite operators around the globe coordinate maneuvers to avoid potential collisions. With 86 countries operating over 10,000 active satellites in orbit today and projections of 100,000 active satellites by 2030, space is getting crowded. Our data shows a 17% year-over-year increase in close approaches between satellites this year alone – further proving how crucial the TraCSS mission is. “Slingshot’s role in developing this groundbreaking space traffic coordination platform requires intentionality as well as close mission alignment with OSC. NOAA’s TraCSS initiative offers the opportunity for enhanced space safety and sustainability, fostering growth across the commercial, civil, and academic space sectors for the foreseeable future.” – Tim Solms, CEO, Slingshot Aerospace. Learn more here: slingshot.space/news/slingsh…

🚨Slingshot Orbital Alert 🚨 The Slingshot Global Sensor Network is actively tracking the debris cloud related to the October 19, 2024 breakup of Intelsat’s 33e (NORAD ID: 41748) GEO satellite at 60 degrees E. The satellite was eight years into its 15-year mission, having launched in August of 2016. The sudden failure of Intelsat 33e is eerily similar to the fate of its predecessor, Intelsat 29e (NORAD ID: 41308), which suffered a total failure in April 2019, just over three years after it was launched into orbit in January 2016. At the time of failure, Intelsat 29e still had 12 years of planned service based on its 15-year mission. While the cause of the most recent failure is unknown, a 2019 investigation conducted by Boeing, the manufacturer of both 29e and 33e, concluded that 29e’s failure was due to either an electrostatic discharge resulting from a wiring harness flaw or a micrometeoroid strike. After the 29e anomaly investigation in 2019, @SpaceNews reported a Boeing representative stating, “We believe that other similar spacecraft on orbit are at low risk of experiencing the same sequence of events. Nevertheless, as a precaution, we are incorporating information gained from the investigation to other spacecraft, as appropriate.” According to Slingshot Seradata, both Intelsat 33e and 29e were built on the same Boeing bus platform – the BSS-702MP (Boeing 702B). The BSS-702MP platform is the same bus platform used by seven other GEO satellites currently in orbit. The Indonesian-owned Nusantara Lima satellite is also built on the BSS-702MP platform and is expected to be launched later this year. Active & Upcoming Satellites Built on the BSS-702MP Platform: NUSANTARA LIMA – Launching 2024 JCSAT-18/KACIFIC-1 – Active, Launched 2019 AMOS-17 – Active, Launched 2019 HORIZONS 3e – Active, Launched 2018 Intelsat 37e – Active, Launched 2017 Intelsat 35e – Active, Launched 2017 Intelsat 21 – Active, Launched 2012 Intelsat 22 – Active, Launched 2012 It is important to note that these failures are out of the ordinary for Intelsat. In the company’s 50+ years of service, they’ve successfully launched over 150 satellites and are currently operating 42 active spacecraft in GEO. Contact [email protected] for 24/7/365 space domain awareness from the Slingshot Global Sensor Network & access to the world's leading launch and satellite database, Slingshot Seradata.

Today we’re announcing Agatha – a new AI system for space domain awareness that represents a breakthrough in the systematic monitoring and identification of outlier satellites within constellations. slingshot.space/news/slingsh…