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Umbra

Santa Barbara SAR satellite company providing high-resolution radar imagery for national-security, commercial and civil missions.

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Umbra
Space / SARUSPrivate
Santa Barbara SAR satellite company providing high-resolution radar imagery for national-security, commercial and civil missions.
Founded
2015
HQ
Santa Barbara, CA
Headcount
Undisclosed
Total raised
Undisclosed in captured sources
Valuation
Undisclosed
Stage
Private

Background

Umbra was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Barbara, California. The captured company row lists David Langan as CEO, and Umbra's about page describes leadership backgrounds in national-security space systems.

The company designs, builds, operates and sells access to a commercial synthetic-aperture-radar satellite constellation.

SAR imagery is useful because it can collect at night and through cloud cover, supporting national-security, maritime, disaster-response and commercial monitoring missions.

Umbra is a space and SAR profile. Its defense relevance is high-resolution remote sensing, not platform autonomy or munitions.

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