Umbra launched its Umbra-04 and Umbra-05 microsatellites on Januonboard SpaceX’s Transporter 6 Rideshare Mission.Umbra-06 offers imagery at a spatial resolution of 25 cm over a 16 sq km area. Umbra now has six satellites in orbit and expects to deploy two more by the end of 2023. Umbra-06 builds on the existing constellation of five satellites, which delivers the highest resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery commercially available from orbit. Umbra launched its Umbra-06 microsatellite on the SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, on Apat 06:48 UTC.Launches of Umbra satellites (in reverse order) The company has posted job openings in engineering, product, software, operations and marketing in its Santa Barbara and Austin, Texas facilities. Umbra is building multiple satellites and preparing to expand its 45-person staff. Umbra plans to offer customers free satellite tasking and direct satellite access. "Our proprietary technology improves satellite performance, data quality and can collect many areas of interest in high resolution, which allows us to offer lower prices." "When we embarked on the commercial business it was clear – Umbra needed to invent something new to create value for our customers," Umbra Co-Founder Gabe Dominocielo said in a statement. Umbra seeks to reduce the cost of SAR data by bringing prices in line with those of electro-optical imagery. Many companies are building SAR microsatellites to provide imagery and data during the day, at night and through clouds. 9 that it was granted a patent for an antenna designed to stow compactly for launch and expand in orbit with a series of ribs attached to a central hub covered in a flexible reflective material. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) awarded Umbra a license in 2018 to sell 25 cm resolution imagery commercially from a satellite constellation in 515 km circular sun synchronous orbit. prime aerospace and defense company that Umbra declines to name.īecause of that early backing from a prime contractor, Umbra had "an advantage with the United States government and primes, ultimately allowing us to win important contracts critical to future space architectures," Umbra CEO David Langan said in a statement. Umbra was established in 2015 based on a contract awarded by a U.S. Figure 1: Umbra CEO David Langan inspects an Umbra satellite antenna (image credit: Umbra)
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