Editor’s Note (September 30, 2026): When this article was published on September 4 the conference program listed this technical brief as a talk by Dr. Dan Ceperley, LeoLabs’ co-founder and chief operating officer, and his name appeared in the headline. The program now lists Adam Marsh, the company’s Vice President of Technical Solutions. The headline, the biography and the session details have been updated. The reporting on LeoLabs is unchanged.
LeoLabs won a $20.68 million prototype Other Transaction Agreement from the U.S. Space Force on August 26, to deliver one Scout-S radar modified for national security missions. Scout-S is the company’s transportable three-dimensional search radar, an S-band system housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container and movable by land, sea or air. The agreement pays for a demonstration rather than a fielded system. “We’re honored to partner with the Space Force and bring our proven sensing technology into U.S. national security,” said Tony Frazier, LeoLabs’ chief executive. The executive who leads the company’s technical solutions work takes the Satellite Innovation stage at Silicon Valley Space Week in October.
Adam Marsh is Vice President of Technical Solutions at LeoLabs, where he leads customer engagement and technical solutions supporting government and commercial space missions. He has more than twenty years of experience in space operations, orbital analysis, launch integration and space safety, and he works with U.S. government agencies, civil organizations and commercial satellite operators on space traffic coordination, conjunction assessment and operational space safety. LeoLabs was founded in 2016 as a venture-funded spinout of SRI International and is based in Menlo Park, California. The company gave a technical brief at Silicon Valley Space Week in 2024 on using artificial intelligence to track objects in orbit.
The brief’s subject is the side effects of a fuller orbit. LeoLabs fielded the first Scout-S in the Indo-Pacific in June, and it took part in Valiant Shield 2026, the exercise run by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The company says the radar picked up Chinese Yaogan reconnaissance satellites between 800 and 1,000 kilometers and objects as low as 230 kilometers. Its object catalog separately feeds the Space Force’s Unified Data Library and Commerce’s Traffic Coordination System for Space, under a joint award made on September 30, 2025 and disclosed in December, and the company says that catalog tracks nearly 25,000 resident space objects. Who pays for space-traffic coordination, and whether it is bought as a service or written into requirements, remains unsettled.
Marsh gives “License to Operate: The Crowded Highways of LEO” on Tuesday, October 27, from 5:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Hahn Auditorium at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. It is a fifteen-minute technical brief on the Satellite Innovation track, with no other speakers, and the program describes it as “The side effects of launching thousands of satellites: A look at tracking catalogs, monitoring traffic, and the advocacy for real space-traffic coordination.” It follows Austin Spiegel, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sift, on the mission software lessons of 2026, at 5:00 p.m., and it closes the Satellite Innovation program for the day.
Silicon Valley Space Week runs Tuesday, October 27 through Thursday, October 29 at the Computer History Museum, with Satellite Innovation across the first two days and the MilSat Symposium across the last two. The brief is the last item on the opening day. The variant the Space Force is paying to see demonstrated modifies a radar that has been in the field since June.
