Problem

Earth-observation customers often have to trade off resolution, coverage, revisit rate, weather resilience, and cost. Conventional satellite approaches can struggle to produce high-resolution three-dimensional data at scale, while 3D mapping has traditionally relied on lidar collected by fixed-wing aircraft—an approach that is difficult to deploy frequently and comprehensively. The economic pain is especially acute for customers that need persistent, reliable coverage rather than one-off imagery.

The primary use cases are defense and geospatial intelligence, including monitoring high-value industrial sites, planning and protecting critical infrastructure, detecting and tracking moving objects, and supplying better ground truth for autonomous systems. Array’s broader ambition is to make high-quality 3D information available rapidly for any location on Earth, including in conditions where optical imagery is limited by darkness or weather.

Product / Service

Array Labs is developing a coordinated fleet of formation-flying satellites that use distributed, multistatic radar. Multiple cooperative satellites observe the same location simultaneously from different angles, allowing the company to generate native, high-resolution 3D imagery in seconds. Its distributed radar clusters are designed to provide greater power, sensitivity, flexibility, and real-time moving-target-imaging capability than conventional radar architectures.

The planned delivery model is primarily geospatial data and analytics from an owned and operated satellite constellation, delivered to commercial, civil, and government customers. Array is also engaging early customers through a Launch Partnership Program that provides early API access, technical integration support, roadmap influence, and opportunities to develop specialized applications. The company launched two demonstration satellites in 2024, plans another demonstration mission in 2026, and expects its first production cluster of four satellites to cover millions of square kilometers annually.

Market

Array competes in space-based radar, synthetic-aperture-radar Earth observation, 3D mapping, and geospatial intelligence, with an aerospace-and-defense customer base. Its competitive set includes Planet, ICEYE, and Capella Space, while Umbra and other high-resolution radar-imaging providers are adjacent players. Array’s differentiation is its emphasis on formation-flying, multistatic radar designed to produce 3D imagery rather than primarily two-dimensional radar imagery; it is also partnering with companies including Maxar, Umbra, and Raytheon to accelerate products and customer adoption.

Array is not merely pre-revenue: the company reported nine-figure commercial bookings in contracted revenue in 2025, roughly half a dozen government awards over the prior 24 months, and a $1.25 million U.S. Air Force contract for 3D radar-imaging algorithms. It raised a $20 million Series A in January 2026 and an additional $21 million strategic round anchored by Mitsubishi Electric in July 2026. However, its first production cluster has not yet been deployed, so the company remains in the scale-up and constellation-commercialization phase rather than operating a mature global service.