LightRidge Solutions, a portfolio company of ATL Partners and a leading provider of space and defense mission solutions for the U.S. national security community, today announced it has acquired Trident Systems, a premier provider of high-performance space electronics and C4ISR solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.