Look Up, founded in 2022 by General Michel Friedling, France's first Space Commander, and Juan Carlos Dolado Pérez, former head of space safety at the French space agency CNES, tracks satellites and debris in low Earth orbit with its own ground-based radars and a data platform called SYNAPSE. Its EIC Accelerator project, ATLAS², "Acceleration Towards LEO Automatic Space Safety", receives an EU contribution of €2,411,490 towards a total cost of €3,444,985 and runs from July 2024 to December 2026, according to CORDIS. The project's report says Look Up closed a €50 million Series A in June 2025 including the EIC Fund, and that a first version of the ATLAS² service, recommending avoidance manoeuvres, was working, according to CORDIS.
Look Up's first radar, SORASYS 1 in Lozère in southern France, is operational, and two more are being deployed in French Polynesia, according to Look Up. In 2026 CNES awarded it the first national contract to buy space surveillance radar data, which entered its active phase on 20 May 2026, according to Look Up. In June 2026 it chose the ground station company Skynopy to connect ATLAS² to satellites so that avoidance manoeuvres can be executed automatically.
Company file
- Legal entity
- Look Up Space SAS, SIREN 914 706 221
- Founded
- June 2022
- Founders
- Gen. (R.) Michel Friedling, Juan Carlos Dolado Pérez (president)
- Products
- SORASYS radars, SYNAPSE platform, SORASYS data
- Named client
- CNES
- Offices
- Paris and Toulouse
- EIC funding
- Blended finance, €2.41M grant plus EIC Fund equity
Where Look Up Stands Now
Look Up registered capital increases in December 2025 and April 2026, according to the official gazette BODACC, and the French business register puts its workforce at 20 to 49 employees. Its accounts are filed as partly confidential, so revenue and losses are not public. The company has become a regular source for French media on the crowding of low Earth orbit, publishing counts of active satellites and a space geopolitics barometer with Le Point.
"The EIC Fund is proud to support Look Up, a strategic company that, in just three years, has proven its ability to execute an ambitious project."
Svetoslava Georgieva, Chair of the EIC Fund Board, 2025The Technology: Radars and Automatic Manoeuvres
ATLAS² aims to go beyond collision warnings: it computes avoidance strategies for satellites with both chemical and low-thrust electric propulsion, take into account when a ground station can reach the satellite, and send the commands. The project also built a mobile app to broadcast information on high-risk conjunctions. The data comes from Look Up's own radars, fused with other sources on its SYNAPSE platform.
What the EIC Award Promised, and What the Record Shows
The project runs until December 2026, so it is too early to judge it. By mid-2025 a first version of the service was working as a proof of concept, and in 2026 the ground station link needed for automatic execution was contracted. No satellite operator has yet been named as an ATLAS² customer.
- Manoeuvre recommendationWorkingProof of concept.
- Automatic executionIn progressSkynopy link, 2026.
- Own radar dataDeliveredSORASYS 1.
- ATLAS² customersUnverifiedNone named.
The Money
The €50 million Series A dwarfs the EIC grant. The first three SORASYS radars are also funded by the EU's Space Surveillance and Tracking programme, the project report says. How much the EIC Fund put in has not been disclosed.
What Cannot Be Checked
Questions for the EIC
How much the EIC Fund invested, Look Up's revenue and losses, which operators use ATLAS², and how much EU Space Surveillance and Tracking money went to its radars are not public.
Why Europe Should Care
Low Earth orbit is filling up, with Look Up's counts showing active satellites rising more than sevenfold since 2019. A European radar network and collision avoidance service, run by former French military and space agency leaders, serves what the EIC Fund's chair called European sovereignty.
What the award promised
Automated space safety services for satellites in low Earth orbit.
What the record shows
A working first version, €50M raised, an operational radar and a CNES contract.
The Verdict
On track
Look Up has money, hardware and a public client. The automated service the EIC funded still needs its first named customers.
Look Up and the EIC have not been asked for comment for this article. It is based entirely on public records and published statements, linked throughout.
