Array Labs Secures $20M Series A to Industrialize Space-Based Radar and Advance Toward First Launch

Array Labs has closed a $20 million Series A round to accelerate the industrial-scale manufacturing of high-power radar systems and move closer to launching its first formation-flying radar satellite cluster. The round was led by Catapult Ventures, with participation from Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC, and a broad syndicate of new and existing investors, including Y Combinator, Maiora Ventures, SuperOrganism, Gaingels, Hexagon, Animal Capital, Aera VC, Cultivation Capital, and Clearance Ventures.

With this raise, Array’s total funding reaches $35 million since emerging from Y Combinator, building on a $5 million seed round in 2022 and a $10 million follow-on round in 2024.

Rewriting the Cost and Performance Equation for Radar

Array Labs is tackling one of the most entrenched challenges in the space and defense ecosystem: expensive radar systems, bespoke, and slow to produce. The company has developed what it describes as the first radar architecture designed from the ground up for mass manufacturing, borrowing proven techniques from consumer electronics and telecommunications.

This approach fundamentally reshapes radar economics, collapsing traditional cost structures while dramatically increasing performance.

“The radar satellite industry today looks like space launch before SpaceX, dominated by legacy defense contractors building one-off, extremely expensive systems,” said Andrew Peterson, Co-Founder and CEO of Array Labs. “We’ve taken a different path: building radar that can be manufactured at scale, at commercial price points, without compromising capability.”

Momentum Across Commercial and Government Markets

Array’s progress over the past year underscores growing market demand for scalable, high-power radar. In 2025 alone, the company doubled its workforce, completed the design of its satellite bus, launched two new product lines, and grew commercial bookings to nine-figure contracted revenue.

On the public sector side, Array has secured approximately half a dozen competitive awards over the last 24 months across the U.S. armed services, the intelligence community, and key combatant commands, validating both its technical credibility and mission relevance.

From Selling Images to Selling Radar

Array initially set out to build cooperative clusters of small satellites capable of generating real-time, three-dimensional maps of Earth. As the technology matured, customer demand revealed a clearer opportunity: the radar instruments themselves.

That realization drove a strategic pivot. Today, Array operates as a radar-first platform company with three integrated business lines:

• Radar payloads: Standalone, high-power radar instruments for satellite bus providers and defense primes, designed for low-cost, high-volume production and integration with a wide range of spacecraft.

• Sovereign satellite systems: Fully integrated satellites and dedicated clusters for customers seeking sovereign control over wide-area, high-resolution ISR and multi-domain target identification.

• Data products: 3D imagery and analytics derived from Array’s own satellite constellation, delivered to commercial and civil customers.

At the core of all three is Array’s breakthrough radar family, systems capable of delivering up to 100× the power of legacy solutions at roughly 1% of the cost, packaged for compatibility with everything from small satellites to next-generation platforms designed for super-heavy launch vehicles.

Deep Traction Across the Radar Value Chain

Array’s technology is gaining traction across both government and commercial ecosystems. Multiple U.S. defense organizations have selected the company to advance high-power antenna architectures, high-bandwidth communications, and 3D reconstruction algorithms.

Commercially, Array has signed multi-year capacity agreements with global leaders in mining, infrastructure, and embodied AI. These customers are leveraging persistent 3D radar data to monitor high-value assets, protect critical infrastructure, and provide reliable ground truth for autonomous systems, workloads that prioritize continuous capacity over episodic imagery.

At the same time, demand for turnkey radar payloads is accelerating rapidly, with further updates on production scale-up and payload sales expected in the coming months.

Why Radar, and Why Now

Array’s thesis is clear: radar is becoming foundational to next-generation security, resilience, and autonomy. By combining consumer electronics, communications technology, advanced signal processing, and AI-driven software, the company has developed radar systems that are not only significantly more affordable but also powerful enough for global detection and tracking missions.

Rather than delivering static images, Array’s software stack converts raw radar signals into actionable, three-dimensional intelligence, designed for real operational decision-making.

With its Series A capital, Array Labs will expand engineering and go-to-market teams, scale production of its radar panels, complete flight qualification, and ultimately deploy what it aims to be the world’s first formation-flying radar satellite cluster.