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Aviation Week: LightRidge Making Sensors to Help Protect Air and Space Assets
By Trident Solutions | Apr 19, 2023
LightRidge Solutions, a private equity portfolio, is building space-based assets that offer protection against on-orbit attacks, sensors that can detect the contrails of stealth aircraft, and other ground- and space-based assets.
C4ISR and Networks: Space Domain Awareness, Protection Requires More Space-based Systems
By Trident Solutions | Apr 14, 2023
LightRidge Solutions Chief Strategy and Growth Officer Joshua Hartman argues that a 2026 timeline set by U.S. Space leaders for rapidly fielding space domain awareness tools and capabilities can be achieved if the government looks to lower cost yet highly capable space- based solutions that are available today.
Business Wire: ATL Partners Forms Leading Space and Airborne Platform LightRidge Solutions
By Trident Solutions | Mar 20, 2023
ATL Partners announced the formation of LightRidge Solutions, a portfolio company focused on the development, design and production of small, affordable, high-performance space and airborne sensors and payloads for vital national security needs. LightRidge is comprised of GEOST, a leading provider of high-end space payloads acquired in 2021 and Ophir Corporation, which develops and manufactures advanced airborne laser radar sensors and was acquired in late 2022.
Space News: ATL Forms New Holding Company Focused on Space and Air Sensors
By Trident Solutions | Mar 20, 2023
ATL Partners announced it has formed a new holding company called LightRidge Solutions to oversee a portfolio of space and airborne sensors businesses. Lightridge will absorb space sensor provider GEOST, acquired in 2021, and Ophir Corporation, a company that develops laser radar technology and acquired in 2022.
Defense One: Defense Business Brief: A New Space-Sensor Play
By Trident Solutions | Mar 20, 2023
The private equity firm behind satellite-sensor maker GEOST has created LightRidge, a company focused on “the development, design and production of small, affordable, high-performance space and airborne sensors and payloads for vital national security needs.” LightRidge is made up of Geost and Ophir, which makes airborne laser radar sensors.