Overview
Space simulation and analytics company building the World's first Digital Space Twin of the orbital environment. Provides space domain awareness, collision avoidance, and AI mission rehearsal for U.S. Space Force.
Reality check
Space Force STRATFI (company-claimed)
Mar 2022: A $25.2M, 39-month contract from Space Systems Command and SpaceWERX to deliver Digital Space Twin and Slingshot Laboratory training.
Digital Space Twin (company-claimed)
A virtual space environment mirroring the current state of space for mission simulation; STRATFI funded a government version.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Space Force SBIR III
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Partnerships
Every company Slingshot Aerospace has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Slingshot Aerospace on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 1 region, newest verified Jan 2023. Explore where Slingshot Aerospace's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- David Godwin Co-founder & Presidentreported, not verified
- Melanie Stricklan Co-founder & CEOreported, not verified
- Belinda Marchand Chief Scientistreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- David Godwincofounderfounded 2017-07-01
Former / Previously (1)
- Erin Defossé Chief Operating Officerreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Slingshot Aerospace.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Slingshot Aerospace2 deployments
Recent coverage
Slingshot Aerospace in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every Slingshot Aerospace competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Aetherfluxdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agile Space Industriesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Albedo Spacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astroscaledirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (5)
Registry pages whose text names Slingshot Aerospace.
Robots and products (1)
People (4)
David Godwin, Erin Defossé, Belinda Marchand, Melanie Stricklan
Financial state
- Total funding
- $40.9M
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Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Slingshot Aerospace has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A22022-12-06
$41M(reported)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Slingshot Aerospace’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A2 funding round
2022-12-06Series A2 raising $40850000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2023
Digital Space Twin at El Segundo
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMar 31, 2022
Digital Space Twin at El Segundo
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Slingshot Aerospace.Peer companies
- Blackswan Space3 models
- CarbonSix2 models
- Embark Trucks2 models
- Gatik2 models
- General Intuition2 models
- Genesis AI2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Slingshot Aerospace from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/slingshot-aerospace.md
- RSS feed: /companies/slingshot-aerospace/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/520ceb4e-315c-4a50-9335-cb3d46660219
- Revision history: /companies/slingshot-aerospace/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Blackswan Space3 models
- CarbonSix2 models
- Embark Trucks2 models
- Gatik2 models
- General Intuition2 models
- Genesis AI2 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Slingshot Aerospace draws attention at the 94th percentile but verifies reality at the 15th percentile among brain robots. Hype Gap +78.9, 1st widest among brain robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 229.1M video views. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 6, 2026