SANTA BARBARA, CA – The NRO has selected Umbra for the first Focus Area—Commercial Radar—under the agency’s new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Strategic Commercial Enhancements effort. Focused on commercial imagery and data, this initiative
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Space Technology for the internet age
We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring.
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What would happen if we could monitor the Earth as easily as we monitor web traffic?
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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
Read MoreUmbra launched their first commercial radar satellite with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capabilities. Umbra’s satellite has a unique imaging payload which can see though clouds, smoke and total darkness with industry leading resolution down to
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