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Umbra has agreements to deliver data to the United States government and to commercial geospatial intelligence firms.
Umbra is expanding its team to approximately 45 people and has new job openings in engineering, product, software, operations, and marketing at its Santa Barbara, California and new Austin, Texas facilities.
Umbra was granted a patent on 2021-01-09 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.
Umbra has agreements to deliver data to United States government customers and commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) firms.
Umbra is expanding its team to approximately 45 people and has job openings in engineering, product, software, operations, and marketing in Santa Barbara, California and Austin, Texas.
Umbra plans to continue manufacturing spacecraft and begin launching satellites for its commercial missions in 2025.
Umbra raised $32,000,000 in equity financing led by the family office venture fund of John Burbank, founder of Passport Capital.
Umbra views analytics firms offering SAR data as mission partners and believes in mutual success with them.
Umbra believes that a smaller team and more capable satellites will provide lower cost, higher quality products to support the growth of the commercial Earth Observation market.
The satellite intelligence company has rebranded itself as Umbra.
Umbra's simplified name reflects its evolution from a research and development laboratory to a commercial satellite constellation operator.
Umbra's antenna, combined with its 1200MHz bandwidth radar, allows the company to collect imagery with a below 25 centimeter impulse response (IPR).
Umbra has been expanding its staff and intends to continue growing throughout next year.
Umbra's small team focuses on building a cloud-enabled commercial remote sensing system to offer data as a service.
Umbra's autonomous cloud-based tasking allows customers to access Umbra satellites without complex contracts or human interaction.
Umbra's rebranding signifies the company's preparation for its first commercial satellite launches throughout 2021.
The United States Patent Office has issued Umbra a patent for a next generation small satellite antenna that enables its satellites to capture imagery through clouds, day or night.
Umbra has concentrated on testing its antenna technology over the past few years.
Umbra is developing infrastructure necessary for operating a satellite constellation, including automated satellite tasking, cloud-based image processing and delivery, billing, and customer service.
Umbra's cloud-based ground architecture enables customers to download data directly from Amazon Web Services.