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David Langan is a space-systems engineer who, before founding Umbra, worked as a systems engineer, technical director, and space-mission architect at Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman), where he reported 100% flight success across more than 18 satellite systems. He is an expert in space-mission architecture, remote sensing, and the design and testing of advanced space systems, and invented a large parabolic mesh radar antenna sized for a microsatellite. From 2016 to 2020 he served as a presidential appointee to NOAA's Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing. He co-founded Umbra in 2015 with longtime friend Gabe Dominocielo, bootstrapping the synthetic-aperture-radar company for two years before raising capital, and serves as CEO.
Gabe Dominocielo is a business-focused entrepreneur whose background is largely in commerce and advertising; before Umbra he started a company that coordinated class actions for plaintiffs' lawsuits. A longtime friend of David Langan, he co-founded Umbra in 2015 and, with Langan, bootstrapped the company for roughly two years before raising outside capital. He has helped build Umbra into a leading commercial synthetic-aperture-radar provider — the company published a 16-centimeter-resolution image it called the highest-resolution commercial satellite image ever released — and serves in a senior leadership and strategy role.
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Umbra builds and operates small synthetic-aperture radar satellites that image the ground day or night and through clouds, and in 2023 it released a 16-centimeter-resolution image it called the highest-resolution commercial satellite image ever published. Customers task the constellation for sub-25-centimeter and complex SAR data used in defense, intelligence, and infrastructure monitoring. Because radar actively illuminates targets, Umbra's imagery is unaffected by weather and lighting, giving customers reliable revisit over any location. Its high fidelity has made Umbra a leading commercial alternative to government radar systems.
Umbra's Open Data program publicly releases a growing archive of sample synthetic-aperture radar imagery, including time-series collections over fixed sites, free for anyone to download and use. The goal is to seed an ecosystem of analysts, researchers, and software developers who can build detection and change-monitoring algorithms on real high-resolution SAR data, which has historically been scarce and expensive. By lowering the barrier to experimentation, Umbra aims to expand the overall market for radar analytics and drive demand back to its commercial tasking business.
37 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.
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