The Amber™ Program will consist of Amber™ CubeSats in multiple orbital planes providing global Maritime Domain Awareness data to the UK Joint Maritime Security Centre led by the Royal Navy.
Horizon Technologies will launch the first AMBER™ commercial SIGINT smallsat in 2022 as part of a public/private partnership with the UK Government to provide a Maritime Intelligence Data Service based in space.
The AAC Clyde Space order is a follow-on from the Satellite Applications Catapult IOD program (IOD-3 AMBER), for which AAC Clyde Space will deliver a 6U cubesat to the International Space Station for deployment in 2021.
Horizon Space Technologies is the prime contractor for the UK Government’s Amber™ program, which will consist of Amber™ cubesats in multiple orbital planes to provide global Maritime Domain Awareness data to the National Maritime Information Centre led by the Royal Navy.
The two satellites contracted from AAC Clyde Space will become part of Horizon Space Technologies’ Amber™ constellation dedicated to delivering Maritime Domain Awareness intelligence data.
The two smallsats procured by Horizon Space Technologies from AAC Clyde Space will become part of the Amber™ constellation dedicated to delivering Maritime Domain Awareness intelligence data.
The order from Horizon Space Technologies is a follow-on from the Satellite Applications Catapult IOD program (IOD-3 AMBER) for which AAC will deliver a 6U cubesat to the International Space Station in 2021 for deployment to orbit.
The two additional satellites will join Amber IOD-3, which AAC Clyde Space is building for deployment from the International Space Station this summer.
Horizon’s Series A funding will enable the company to hire new personnel and cover research and development for expanded features, including supporting software payload upgrades for Amber IOD-3.
Horizon Technologies plans to launch Amber-1 later 2021.
Horizon Technologies’ AMBER Maritime Domain Awareness Intelligence system was featured on the UK Government’s stand at IDEX 2021.
Horizon Technologies plans to launch the first AMBER™ Maritime Intelligence CubeSat into orbit in mid-2021 and to launch additional AMBER™ CubeSats in 2022.
COVID-related launch delays gave Horizon Technologies time to implement major improvements in AMBER™’s expanded dataset.
The AMBER™ constellation will provide demodulated, detailed datasets of collected RF signals in addition to geolocations.
For maritime targets of interest, customers require extracted GPS locations, specific radar ID data, and L‑Band metadata/content from emitters, and AMBER™ provides this level of detail.