“Space debris is increasingly a problem and the regulatory framework must evolve to deal with it.”
-Shruti Gurudanti, Rose Law Group partner and leader of the firm’s space law practice
By AZ Family
About an hour and a half drive east of Tucson, nestled out in the desert, is a unique structure whose purpose is out of this world. LeoLabs, a California-based company, built a radar in eastern Arizona that monitors objects in space, specifically in the earth’s orbit.
“What these radars do is they track objects in space,” said Ed Lu the chief technology officer at LeoLabs. “There’s a lot of objects in space; satellites, pieces of debris from satellites that have either hit each other or broken up. There are tens of thousands of objects just in low earth orbit around the earth, and we track those objects.”
Leolabs works with government agencies and private companies to make sure their objects in space like satellites have enough physical space while orbiting the earth.
