HawkEye 360 ranks 14 on the Space 100 with a score of 82; Umbra ranks 63 with 70. HawkEye 360 is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, firepower and leverage. Level on technology and positioning. HawkEye 360 is based in Herndon, United States, Umbra in Santa Barbara, United States. HawkEye 360: Public. HawkEye 360 is named in 23 signals and Umbra in 23.
HawkEye 360 operates a commercial RF geolocation satellite constellation and sells radio-frequency intelligence to customers including the National Reconnaissance Office.
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HawkEye 360 is a US RF-geolocation operator with a 30-satellite constellation (clusters of three since 2018; Block 4 angle-of-arrival payloads launching 2027), promoted from watchlist after it went public (ticker HAWK). FY25 revenue was $117.7M with $24.8M EBITDA (international outpacing US), and Lockheed Martin is an investor and integration partner, feeding RF intelligence into the AEGIS weapon system at Valiant Shield 2026; its December 2025 ISA acquisition generalizes emitter identification. The IPO proceeds, Q2 figures, and backlog are the open items.
23 signals name HawkEye 360.
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Umbra builds and operates radar-imaging satellites and sells high-resolution commercial SAR imagery for Earth observation customers.
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Umbra is a US SAR operator with 12+ satellites launched (Umbra-12 in January 2026) at 16cm resolution, the highest commercially available, built at low single-digit-millions cost (the cheapest per performance in the field), plus a satellite-sales line building SAR sats for customers. It holds an NRO triple-anchor: an operational Radar Commercial Augmentation contract (August 2026, one of only three survivors of the five-company CRC evaluation), SCE Stage III, and an RF-products award. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m from NRO and commercial streams.
23 signals name Umbra.
28 facts on file.
HawkEye 360 ranks 14 on the Space 100 with a score of 82; Umbra ranks 63 with 70. HawkEye 360 is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, firepower and leverage. Level on technology and positioning. HawkEye 360 is based in Herndon, United States, Umbra in Santa Barbara, United States. HawkEye 360: Public. HawkEye 360 is named in 23 signals and Umbra in 23.
HawkEye 360 ranks 14 on the Space 100 with a score of 82; Umbra ranks 63 with 70. HawkEye 360 is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, firepower and leverage. Level on technology and positioning. HawkEye 360 is based in Herndon, United States, Umbra in Santa Barbara, United States. HawkEye 360: Public. HawkEye 360 is named in 23 signals and Umbra in 23. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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