> LeoLabs sells data to satellite operators, space agencies, America’s armed forces and insurers keen to calculate better actuarial tables for spacecraft.

> Customers include insurers keen to see if policyholders fly their satellites as safely as they claim to.

> Northstar, for example, plans to charge annual subscriptions of between $10m and $100m.

> Naturally, this orbital-tracking technology has military value as well.

I think most of these companies are assuming they can get big government contracts once this becomes a big enough problem. Lockheed Martin has Space Fence (https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.ht...) which was presumably funded by a government contract