https://spacewatch.global/tag/umbra/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:56:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/umbra/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/04/reflex-aerospace-and-umbra-partner-to-offer-turnkey-sar-capabilities/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=65031 Reflex Aerospace and Umbra are collaborating to provide turnkey synthetic aperture radar (SAR) solutions to Europe. Umbra will customize and build its high-performance SAR solutions for integration by Reflex into a dedicated satellite bus hosting the payload. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/03/umbra-signs-crada-with-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=64609 Umbra has signed a CRADA agreement with the NGA, gaining access to NGA’s research insights to better align its capabilities with mission requirements, while NGA can leverage Umbra’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and RF data products and satellite technology to expand its research and operational capabilities]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/12/maxar-secures-contracts-with-asia-pacific-government-customers/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=63036 Maxar Intelligence has announced that it received a total of $35 million in new tasking contracts from two government customers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Both contracts revolve around a Direct Access Program (DAP) offering and include several "firsts," including the first purchase of direct access to 30 cm class WorldView Legion imagery and the first use of Maxar’s virtual constellation capability in the APAC region to directly task ultra high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from Maxar partner Umbra]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/08/spacex-launches-over-100-satellites-on-transporter-11-mission/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=56626 SpaceX has launched the Transporter-11 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, placing more than 100 satellites in orbit for government and commercial outfits. This mission marked the 12th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission which previously launched SDA-0A, SARah-2, and nine Starlink missions. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/11/transporter-9-launches-payload-for-planet-d-orbit-spacein-and-others/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:00:43 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52252 SpaceX's transporter smallsat rideshare mission has launched more than 100 satellite payloads for various satellite companies in its ninth dedicated mission. The transporter-9 mission lifted from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on November 11, 2023, deploying payload for Planet, D-Orbit, Spire Global, Iceye, Umbra and SpaceIn, among others. The payload also included orbital transfer vehicles that would later deploy their satellites into orbit.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/08/umbra-selected-by-afwerx-for-sbir-phase-ii-contract/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50681 Umbra has announced that AFWERX has selected it for an SBIR Phase II contract in the amount of $1.25 million. Furthermore, the contract focuses on Space-Based Moving Target Indication (MTI) to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). Umbra will consequently leverage its market-leading wide-bandwidth, affordable space systems, uniquely operating in paired flight, to develop and demonstrate Maritime and Ground MTI (MMTI and GMTI) capabilities.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/08/umbra-releases-hi-res-commercial-satellite-image/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 06:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50434 Umbra, a space radar technology company, has announced that it has successfully produced a 16-cm resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image. According to the Company, it is the highest-resolution commercial satellite image ever released. The company also announced that it’s now able to provide customers with the highest-quality data its satellites are capable of capturing — in all formats and resolutions, including complex data better than 25 cm, for the first time.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/02/maxar-secures-dedicated-access-to-umbras-constellation/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 07:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46623 Maxar Technologies and Umbra have announced an agreement to provide Maxar with dedicated capacity from satellites in Umbra’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery constellation. As a result, the data will become available in Maxar’s portfolio of Earth Intelligence products and services.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/01/spacex-successfully-launches-105-spacecraft/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38571 SpaceX successfully launched 105 spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 launch vehicle yesterday during its third dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, Transporter-3. The rideshare program was announced in 2019, offering small satellite operators to launch for a combined price of US $1M. Transporter-3 carried CubeSats, microsats, PocketQubes,]]>