The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has just demonstrated that the radar system owned by LeoLabs does indeed have the capacity to monitor military satellites in orbit . And therefore, the one installed in Tierra del Fuego by its English and Irish subsidiaries has the same technological capacity.
The official information was provided by Major General Paul Terence Tedman, Commander of the United Kingdom Space Command , through a video uploaded to the military entity's YouTube channel, where he explains the objectives of the satellite and its impact on the future of satellite technology in the field of UK defense.
The announcement of the agreement between LeoLabs Inc. and the British Space Command had been published in July of last year by several magazines specializing in the subject and reproduced a few hours later by Agenda Malvinas.
Its publication had a high impact on the Tierra del Fuego government , which led Governor Gustavo Melella to go from staunch defender of LeoLabs, regarding the fact that its radars did not have military tracking capacity ; to thinking exactly the opposite . Furthermore, launching a media crusade, mounted through a legal action ordering the company to dismantle the antennas that make up the radar, so that they would not be the ones to correct what they had politically promoted and enabled between March and November 2022.
In the video, the British military reports that the UK Space Command surveillance satellite, launched by SpaceX on August 16, 2024 , will operate about 500 kilometers above the Earth's surface for the next five years, weighs about 150 kilograms, and is “crucial to military operations on land, sea and air.”
In short, Tyche is part of a British military initiative, in which an investment of around US$ 1.2 billion will be made, and which will allow the development by 2031 of a comprehensive constellation of multiple satellites, focused on surveillance and reconnaissance . To do this, it uses the monitoring services of the company LeoLabs Inc. on the ground .
“Tyche is more than just a satellite. It is a major step forward in securing our nation’s future,” Major General Tedman sums up in the video.
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