What We Do
LightRidge Solutions provides purpose-built sensors and processors for national security space and defense needs, including advanced space payloads and on-orbit processing technologies, multi-orbit space domain awareness and protection systems, laser communications, and mission autonomy software.
Capabilities
Our solutions have flight heritage and are trusted by the Intelligence Community, DoD, and partner nations for demanding sensing and communication missions. From sensing to characterization to enabling courses of action covering counter-measures, all done at the speed of the operation, LightRidge Solutions empowers decisive action in increasingly dynamic space operations.
Space Payloads
Space Domain Awareness
Space Electronics
Mission Autonomy Software
Laser Communications
Airborne Laser/Optical Sensors
Predictive Maintenance & Logistics
Surveillance Systems
Multi-Domain Communications
Missions We Serve
Space Payloads
Specializing in cutting-edge, electro-optical and infrared payloads for space domain awareness and protection, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), and missile warning/missile tracking in multiple orbits.
Our integrated sensors offer advanced image and processing technologies, enabling optimal performance for proliferated satellite constellations.
Space Domain Awareness
Providing high-precision ground collection systems for autonomous day-and-night awareness, tracking, and intelligence in the contested space domain.
Globally-fielded observatories and integrated mission management software provides enhanced national security space awareness from Earth to cislunar space.
Space Electronics
Offering an integrated and modular family of low-SWaP, high-performance data processors, data storage, and high-speed networking solutions for multi-mission, multi-orbit proliferated space architectures.
With a history of partnering with our customers to identify tailored solutions for their most challenging missions, our subsystems are optimized for radiation tolerance, data throughput and security.
Mission Autonomy Software
Leveraging our expertise, we bring advanced autonomy software to end-to-end mission management in space and on the ground.
From sensing to identification to decisive response and action done at the speed of the mission, LightRidge Solutions is key to increasingly dynamic space operations.
Laser Communications
Expertise in precision optics and ground processing systems enables us to bring low-latency, high-performance optical ground terminals for space-to-ground data links that enable full utilization of proliferated satellite architectures.
Proudly designed and made in the USA to ensure our nation’s leadership in data transportation and protection for critical space missions, including counter-hypersonic missile defense.
Airborne Laser/Optical Sensors
Delivering mission-critical optical/laser solutions to the US Air Force, primarily for strategic, low-observable aircraft. Our airborne laser radar sensors enhance pilot/operator situational awareness and platform survivability.
Our team’s deep expertise extends to the development of next-generation air data measurement systems for both fixed wing and rotary wing guidance, and navigation systems.
Predictive Maintenance & Logistics
AI and ML-enabled sensors provide timely intelligence about the operations and conditions of fielded military platforms. Our solutions are enabling the next generation of fleet readiness and mission planning for land vehicles, weapon systems, and uncrewed tactical vehicles.
Surveillance Systems
Protecting against aircraft threats through integrated command-and-control and software applications for wide-area surveillance systems.
Safeguarding the U.S. National Capital Region and other critical infrastructures through our command-and-control technologies and comprehensive monitoring and alert systems.
Multi-Domain Communications
Engineering high-performance shipboard networking and radio interoperability solutions, our products enable wireless connectivity in the air, at sea and on land.
Our low-SWaP solutions enable critical communications from nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers to the tactical edge of C4I land operations.
Our naval comms solutions are Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite compatible.
Learn about who we are
LightRidge Solution’s affordable yet small, powerful, and increasingly autonomous domain awareness and protection sensors provide time-critical knowledge for operational advantage.