Slingshot Aerospace
Slingshot Aerospace builds AI-driven space domain awareness tools — satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and warfare simulation — for military and civil operators.
Background
Slingshot Aerospace was founded in 2017 in Austin, Texas by David Godwin and Melanie Stricklan, who serves as CEO.
The company emerged from a conviction that the orbital environment was becoming too congested and contested to manage without machine intelligence, and it has since grown offices across Colorado, Canada, Taiwan, and the UK.
Its core platform fuses data from the Slingshot Global Sensor Network, Seradata historical satellite records, owner-operator telemetry, and third-party feeds into a common operating picture of the space domain.
Key named systems include the TALOS AI-driven training environment for space warfare and the RAPTOR program developed in partnership with AFWERX. Astrodynamics, data fusion, and predictive AI sit at the center of every product line.
Slingshot sells directly to U.S. government agencies, allied civil-space operators, and commercial satellite operators.
Its go-to-market strategy emphasizes integration into existing government space operations workflows rather than standalone tooling. A reliable current headcount figure is not publicly disclosed.