Array Labs collects $20M to ramp up imagery satellite production

Array Labs, a maker of small satellites for use in Earth observation, has fetched $20 million in Series A capital from investors to support its push into national security and commercial industries.

Founded in 2019, Array Labs is designing its radar-based satellites to fly in clusters and work together on collecting imagery in order to help create a three-dimensional rendering of Earth. The company believes it can apply the same manufacturing techniques seen in consumer electronics and telecommunications for mass production of its satellites.

Catapult Ventures led the round announced Monday that also involved new and existing investors such as Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC, Y Combinator, Maiora Capital, Animal Capital, Aera VC, Cultivation Capital and Clearance Ventures.

"The radar satellite industry today looks like space launch before SpaceX: dominated by legacy defense contractors building bespoke, expensive systems one at a time," Andrew Peterson, co-founder and chief executive of Array Labs, said in a release. "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."

Much of the newfound capital will go toward efforts to expand engineering and production capacity, wrap up flight qualification of the radar panels, and preparation work ahead of the first cluster becoming operational.

Array Labs doubled the size of its team in 2025 while also completing the design of its satellite bus, forming two new product lines and increasing its commercial contract inventory. The company also touts a “half dozen” contracts with the U.S. military service branches, combatant commands and intelligence agencies.

Array Labs operates across three primary business lines:

• Radar payloads bought by other satellite manufacturers and larger defense primes.
• Sovereign satellite systems, which includes fully-integrated spacecraft and dedicated clusters for customers that want to own and operate their own spacecraft.
• Data products, which includes 3D imagery and analytics from Array’s own constellation.