LeoLabs Australia is best known for its pioneering work tracking tens of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit.

In this episode, the company's president and managing director, Terry van Haren, discusses its recently opened West Australian Space Radar (WASR), which monitors 80 per cent of LEO traffic.

He tells host Adam Thorn why giving everyone, not just governments, access to space situational awareness is important and how he believes countries should tackle the space junk problem.

Plus, he talks about his extraordinary career that saw him move from the Air Force to embracing a new role in space.