The investment round was led by Catapult Ventures. Also participating was Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC, Y Combinator, and Maiora Ventures. It will be used to to scale its engineering, expand production capacity, and, ultimately, launch a formation-flying radar satellite cluster.
The raise brings Array Lab’s total funding to $35 million since going through the Y Combinator accelerator.
Architecture
The company says it is building the first radar architecture suitable of being mass-manufacturing. This is using techniques borrowed from consumer electronics and telecommunications, it says, lowering costs.
“The radar satellite industry today looks like space launch before SpaceX: dominated by legacy defense contractors building bespoke, expensive systems one at a time,” said Andrew Peterson, cofounder and CEO of Array Labs.
“We’ve assembled a team from the most innovative technology companies in Silicon Valley to do something different: build radar that can be produced at scale, at commercial price points, without sacrificing capability.”
Lines
Having doubled the size of its team in 2025, Array Labs now operates three business lines.
First, radar payloads. Standalone instruments for satellite bus providers seeking high-power, low-cost radar systems.
Second, sovereign satellite systems. In other words, integrated spacecraft for customers wanting to own and operate their own assets for high-resolution ISR (incoherent scatter radar).
Third, data products. To provide 3D imagery and analytics from Array’s owned and operated satellite constellation.
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In the last two years, Array Labs highlights it has won contracts with the U.S. military, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). For example, working on high-power antenna architectures and high-bandwidth communications links.
It currently has two prototype satellites in orbit, since 2024. And it with plans to launch another demonstration mission this year.
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