We love a cheeky raise to kick off the new year. 

This morning, space-based radar company Array Labs announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic that it’s raised a $20M Series A led by Catapult Ventures, with participation from Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC, and others, including Y Combinator. 

The startup—which builds powerful, more affordable radar satellites designed to 3D-map the Earth—says it will use the new cash money to build out its team and gear up for a four-satellite commercial launch planned for later this year. They plan to get another 16 into orbit in 2027.

“We’re building radars that are much higher power and much lower cost than traditional systems,” co-founder and CEO Andrew Peterson told Tectonic. “They have the ability to operate as a mesh or as a swarm to image locations and capture them in 3D, which is a really neat trick.”