{"id":103243,"date":"2020-03-04T03:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/predasar-raises-25-million-for-radar-satellite-constellation"},"modified":"2020-03-04T03:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:04:41","slug":"predasar-raises-25-million-for-radar-satellite-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/predasar-raises-25-million-for-radar-satellite-constellation","title":{"rendered":"PredaSAR raises $25 million for radar satellite constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/predasar-raises-25-million-for-radar-satellite-constellation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 PredaSAR, a Florida startup led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, raised $25 million in seed funding for its plan to build a constellation of at least 44 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Defense Department has been after a space-based radar solution for many years,\u201d Teague told <em>SpaceNews<\/em>. \u201cThere\u2019s a need for a SAR moving-target indicator\u2026 I believe there is going to be strong market demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PredaSAR was founded in 2019 by Marc Bell, an entrepreneur and investor who is the chairman and co-founder of Terran Orbital, which owns Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. Bell now serves as PredaSAR\u2019s chairman. Before closing the seed funding round, PredaSAR hired Tyvak to build its first two satellites, Bell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 PredaSAR, a Florida startup led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, raised $25 million in seed funding for its plan to build a constellation of at least 44 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. \u201cThe Defense Department has been after a space-based radar solution for many years,\u201d Teague told SpaceNews. \u201cThere\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}