Slingshot Seradata Intelligence provides comprehensive, independent, and authoritative space market analysis and space event reporting.

United Kingdom
Joined July 2019
We’re excited to share our new X name, Slingshot Seradata Intelligence. Although we’ve updated our look & feel to align with the @sling_shot_aero brand, we'll still be providing the same space market analysis & event reporting that you depend on.
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📢 Incoming! Slingshot’s technical papers from the 25th Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference are here! We're excited to share the groundbreaking work Slingshot presented at AMOS last month. Our team showcased three innovative AI/ML technologies set to transform space situational awareness: 🪪 ML-Based Photometric Fingerprinting: Identifying and characterizing LEO satellites using unique brightness measurements to create digital ‘fingerprints’ 💥 Early Identification of High-Covariance Conjunctions: Predicting potential collision risks days in advance to support improved space traffic coordination 🕵️ Action-Free Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Satellite Similarity and Anomaly Detection: Spotting unusual satellites hidden within mega-constellations These advancements are looking to revolutionize threat detection, space traffic coordination, and constellation monitoring. We're proud of the work our team is doing to stay at the forefront of space safety, sustainability, and security. Read our full AMOS recap and access the technical papers here: slingshot.space/news/amos-re…
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Reminder: If you are at IAC 2024 Milan, come to Slingshot Aerospace’s stand at the UKSA stand.
The 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is next week in Milan…will we see you there?
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Slingshot’s David Todd will also present an Interactive Poster: IAC-24-D5.IP.16 Factors affecting in-orbit anomalies causing insurance losses at the IP area’s screen 82 at 1310 on Monday 14 Oct;
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and a technical paper:  IAC-24-D6.3.10 Analysis of the causes and consequences of launch failures over the past 20 years at circa 1200 in the Yellow Hall 1 on Thursday 17 Oct.
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Storm Kirk expected to cause flooding in parts of France, but that is small beer vs Cat 5 Hurricane Milton that will strike Florida. A reported 5 million residents are trying to evacuate. Good luck to all. We hope that the damage is minimal to all homes and to space facilities.
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Unprecedented to have three Atlantic hurricanes in Oct: Cat 5 Hurricane Milton with 180 mph winds delays 10 Sept launch of Europa Clipper to Jupiter from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Meanwhile, Hurricane Kirk threatens France, S. Eng & even Germany. Hurricane Leslie is off W Africa.
For the first time on record, the Atlantic has 3 #hurricanes simultaneously after September (#Kirk, #Leslie, #Milton).
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Kirk has weakened to become a storm.
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7 October 2024 - 1452 GMT Launch - Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5, from Canaveral, FL, USA. Carrying ESA's Hera asteroid probe and given special dispensation from FAA's suspension of launch licence of Falcon 9 due to upper stage issues. B1061 stage on 23 flight was flown expendably.
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Hera is also carrying a pair of cubesat-class subsats Juventas and Milano.
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Tory Bruno/ULA are vague about Bullseye chart being for final orbit or parking orbit. C3 (characteristic energy above escape) on it appears to make it a final orbit. Thus, we assume that target was achieved despite SRB nozzle failure. Vulcan's robustness saved its launch. Success
And here’s the Bullseye plot. #CERT2 #VulcanRocket
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FAA statement re Falcon 9/Hera
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ULA CEO @torybruno is claiming an "orbital bullseye" insertion. We assume this to mean the parking orbit. In other words, Centaur stage burn 1 probably made up for underperformance of the SRB 1 after its nozzle failure. But does this detract from its later Burn 2 performance?
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Yep...the 'observation' looks much more serious. As in a rapid unscheduled disassembly of the nozzle or part of it.
A quick look at an abnormal part of today's Vulcan Cert-2 mission. Awaiting more information from ULA. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight 📺 - youtube.com/watch?v=ZPztD5zw…
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Vulcan Centaur Cert 2 launches.
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1125 Zulu (GMT/UTC) is the new planned launch time for the Vulcan Centaur Cert 2 flight.
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As Vulcan waits to go...dawn does turn up in time.
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Lots of minor technical delays on Vulcan Centaur launch...but it is a very long 3 hour launch window so it should make it off. Might now even happen in daylight if dawn turns up in time.
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A hold was called at T-00:01:51. ULA is recycling the countdown clock to T-7 minutes and holding. Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_4DHUy…
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