New SAR Launches Capella at (7), ICEYE at (14) and Umbra at (2)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 placed more than 100 smallsats into orbit Jan. 13 as the company accelerates the pace of its dedicated rideshare missions. The Falcon 9 lifted off from…
Umbra Awarded $950M IDIQ Contract Following Space-X Launch
Umbra has been awarded a $950,000,000 ceiling indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for the maturation, demonstration, and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software, and algorithm…
SpaceX Transporter #2 Launches Capella, ICEYE and Umbra Satellites
SpaceX has successfully launched the 88-satellite Transporter 2 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket and landed its 1st stage booster. The Transporter-2 payload manifest featured synthetic aperture radar (SAR)…
Umbra Hits “Jackpot” for 15cm Resolution Images
Umbra, a geospatial intelligence data provider, was granted a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite with 1,200 MHz of bandwidth. This…
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Urthecast Bankruptcy Surprises No One.
Urthecast which was moved from the TSX to the OTC pink sheets years ago has finally filed for bankruptcy. In Canada this process it is called "the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act…
Umbra’s antenna gives them a lot to “gain” in the SAR Wars
We were skeptical about Umbra Labs (link) back in 2016, assuming their advertised capability was just too good to be true. We were wrong. Umbra’s patent proves that Umbra built…
Restrictions on SAR Eliminated
The new rules heavily benefit two American companies Maxar a optical imagery provider and Umbra Lab a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery provider both have satellite systems that were being seriously restricted…
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CSA Issues Letter of Interest for SAR Technologies
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a Letter of Interest (LOI) for seven priority technologies the agency wants industry to develop under its Space Technology Development Program. The technologies…
Umbra Expands its Team with Former Deputy Director of Raytheon
Umbra Expands its Team with Former Deputy Director of Raytheon Umbra Lab, Inc. (Umbra) announced the addition of Marcus Chevitarese as Vice President of Engineering. Chevitarese was most recently a…
Umbra is out of Stealth (Finally!)
SANTA BARBARA, CA // UMBRA LAB: Umbra Lab, Inc. has quietly been developing the world’s leading next-generation synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellite. We recently validated our core technology, tripled the…