post<\/a> in January.<\/p>\nMap it out: Now, last time we covered Array, they were focused pretty squarely on 3D mapping\u2014using imagery and radar data from the satellites to create those close-to-real-time maps of the world. But now, they\u2019re thinking even bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the company has matured, as we\u2019ve talked to some of our customers both on defense and the commercial side, it became clear that what we were building could help fulfill a number of different missions and different mission sets,\u201d Robledo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what those mission sets look like now:<\/p>\n
2D imaging: Pretty straightforward. Taking pictures of the Earth. You get it.<\/p>\n
3D mapping: That knitting-together of images and radar data into a 3D map that we mentioned above. This is useful for situational awareness, mission planning and simulation, and helping autonomous and unmanned systems navigate.<\/p>\n
Airborne Moving Target Indication (AMTI): The radar-based effort to detect, track, and target moving objects in the air like aircraft and missiles. This is being spearheaded by the Space Force and would be a key part of a little group project known as the Golden Dome. This is new territory for Array.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur customers are excited about the ability to do more than just 2D imaging,\u201d Robledo said. \u201cThink 2D imagery, 3D radar imaging, AMTI\u2026space domain awareness, and there are other use cases that we will be talking about here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
They\u2019re already working on all of this in the US, but the partnership with Mitsubishi will expand the services into Japan, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re looking at [this raise] as a way to scale the team, and also the ability to go answer certain mission opportunities, whether that\u2019s on IRAD dollars\u2026or on behalf of a customer,\u201d Robledo added. \u201cNow we have the flexibility to pursue some of these other opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, lest you were concerned that the defense tech money tap was getting switched off, fear not. Space-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-548985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}