Slingshot Aerospace has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Leslie Hildebrand as senior vice president of government business development and strategy and Pieter Kreuk as chief financial officer. In a statement on Wednesday, Melanie Stricklan, co-founder and CEO of Slingshot Aerospace, said the two executives will play pivotal roles in shaping the future of the […] More

HawkEye 360 has received a contract from Slingshot Aerospace to provide radio frequency data to the latter to facilitate the detection of GPS interference and other RF threats from space in support of the U.S. Space Force. Herndon, Virginia-based HawkEye said Thursday it will also provide support services for Slingshot’s proliferated Low Earth Orbit Data […] More

Slingshot Aerospace has raised $40.9 million in a series A2 funding round and secured a venture loan from Horizon Technology Finance to support product commercialization and global expansion initiatives. Sway Ventures led the investment activity and was joined by Lockheed Martin‘s venture arm, ATX Venture Partners, C16 Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and Draper Associates, Slingshot […] More

Slingshot Aerospace has received a potential 39-month, $25.2 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to provide a digital twin technology and a training platform. Space Systems Command and the service’s venture arm SpaceWERX will provide funding through the Strategic Financing program to help Slingshot Aerospace further develop its Digital Space Twin to support Space […] More

Slingshot Aerospace has secured $25 million in a round of Series A-1 financing co-led by Draper Associates and ATX Venture Partners and will use the capital to advance the commercialization of its space collision avoidance communications and coordination platform, dubbed Slingshot Beacon. Additional investors that participated in the funding round include Edison Partners, Lockheed Martin […] More

Slingshot Aerospace has secured a $2 million contract with the U.S. Space Force to develop an analytics platform for identifying ground-based electronic interference based on satellite-gathered location data, Space News reported Thursday. The company will prototype a technology that uses GPS data from low-Earth-orbit constellations to detect and mitigate GPS and radio-frequency sources threatening U.S. […] More

Chris Mattmann, Chuck Beames, Karen Diener, Keith Masback, Moriba Jah, Marissa Peretz and Susan Helms have joined Slingshot Aerospace's advisory board to provide insights, support and counsel in all aspects of the company's business.

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Geospatial intelligence company Slingshot Aerospace has raised $8M during an ATX Venture Partners-led Series A funding round and plans to use the investment to support the development of situational awareness offerings.

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Slingshot Aerospace has received a $1.5M Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and another $1.5M in funds from venture capital firms ATX Venture Partners and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund to accelerate the development and deployment of an artificial intelligence-based platform. Slingshot EDGE is designed to help warfighters glean insights from data using AI and provide them situational awareness capability in order to facilitate the decision-making process on the battlefield, the company said Thursday.

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Slingshot Aerospace, which is developing geospatial intelligence and space situational awareness technology platforms, raised $5M in a funding round that was led by ATX Venture Partners and included Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

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Slingshot Aerospace will develop a customized version of the company's space situational awareness technology for testing at two U.S. Air Force facilities under a two-year, $6M contract, SpaceNews reported Sunday.

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Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy have finished the installation of 10,624 compute blades into the Aurora exascale supercomputer at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Aurora uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric and comes with 1,024 storage nodes designed to provide 220 petabytes of capacity, Intel said Thursday. The supercomputer is […] More