Portal surpasses 630 users as Slingshot introduces AI-driven collision avoidance, high-fidelity tracking and advances on-demand intelligence.

Slingshot Aerospace, the leader in Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy (SOIA), today announced that Slingshot Portal has surpassed 400% growth since its April launch. Slingshot also previewed new capabilities coming to Portal, including AI-driven collision avoidance, high fidelity object tracking and on-demand processing.

Portal is now used by more than 330 commercial, civil and national security organizations across 19 countries, reflecting growing demand for a unified operational environment that brings together space data, intelligence and analytics to support faster, more informed decision-making.

That demand comes as the scale of the space operating environment is changing rapidly. According to Slingshot Seradata, more than 16,600 spacecraft are now active in orbit, with more than 90% entering service since 2020. Annual spacecraft deployments have also grown nearly eightfold since 2018. For operators, that growth means more activity to monitor, more potential risks to assess and more decisions to make as orbital traffic continues to rise.

“Space operators are managing an increasingly complex environment, and fragmented data and isolated alerts are no longer enough,” said Erik Ekwurzel, Chief Technology Officer at Slingshot Aerospace. “They need an operational environment that helps them understand what is happening, identify what matters and determine what to do next. Portal’s rapid adoption reflects that operators are looking for exactly that.”

Expanding from awareness to action

Building on Portal’s intelligence and visualization capabilities, Slingshot is expanding its operational capabilities throughout the remainder of 2026, giving operators new ways to dynamically process data, investigate objects of interest and make informed decisions as conditions in orbit change.

Upcoming features include:

• AI-Driven Collision Avoidance: Operators will be able to move from identifying a potential collision risk to evaluating how to respond within Portal. Powered by TALOS (Thinking Agent for Logical Operations and Strategy), Slingshot’s AI reasoning system, the capability will provide explainable maneuver intelligence and decision support to help operators compare options and tradeoffs before determining a course of action. TALOS already supports U.S. Space Force mission training and rehearsal, bringing an operationally proven AI reasoning capability into Portal’s collision avoidance and mission assurance workflows.
• Next-Generation Object Tracking: Operators will be able to request high-fidelity tracking of specific objects directly through Portal, including checking whether Slingshot already has the data they need or whether the Slingshot Global Sensor Network can collect it. This self-service workflow will reduce the time and manual coordination required to access validated tracking data.
• On-Demand Processing & Analytics: With Slingshot’s MFAST data fusion and analytics engine, operators will be able to run advanced processing on demand through Portal Marketplace. This will make it faster and easier to turn space data into decision-ready intelligence within the workflows operators already use.

Together, these capabilities advance Slingshot’s Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy approach across the full Sense → Fuse → Decide → Act cycle. Customers can access those capabilities through Portal or integrate Slingshot data, analytics and AI directly into existing mission systems through APIs and MCP.

“The future of space operations isn’t another dashboard or another stream of alerts,” Ekwurzel said. “It’s an operational environment that can bring together data, intelligence and AI to help operators move from detection to decision faster. That is what we are building with Portal.”