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British startup Horizon Technologies, Luxembourg-based Kleos Space, and France’s Unseenlabs plan to deploy satellites in the near term to build out maritime surveillance capabilities.
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.
Horizon Technologies plans to launch Amber-1 later 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.