Space-based Maritime Intelligence Solutions

Horizon Technologies’ Amber™ constellation provides subscribers with powerful space-based maritime domain awareness intelligence information. Amber™ detects and defines RF emissions from vessels, such as L-band phones and Iridium communication and tracking devices and maritime radars. The Amber™ constellation provides commercial signals intelligence from these emitters; not merely “RF mapping”.

Our Amber-2 Phoenix Mission is sponsored by the UK Space Agency.

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Million Sq/Km covered at all times
3-12
Looks Per Day (LPD) with 1 Amber™ CubeSat
24
Total number of planned satellites for the Amber constellation
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Horizon’s Amber™ SIGINT CubeSat Payload, developed under the UK Government’s IOD-3 Programme, provides non-ITAR data designed for Government and Commercial users. Amber™ does not require tasking, it collects data 24/7 around the globe and provides a large footprint of 2.6% of the Earth’s surface per satellite allowing end users to specify regional, EEZ or even global data sets.



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Horizon Technologies’ Amber provides space-based maritime domain Intelligence solutions for any user, and any environment.

  • Piracy blue

    Creation of a commercial dark vessel database
    Allows Agencies to identify “dark ships” associations including Sat Phones, Iridium tracking and comms devices and Navigation radar signatures.

  • Signal blue

    Illegal Operators
    Drug smuggling, illegal migrants, ship to ship transfers and illegal fishing rely on Sat Phones to communicate. Amber™ provides near real time data to detect and track their use at sea.

  • Target blue

    Illegal immigrant rescue and interdiction
    Refugees are often given Sat Phones when they undertake illegal journeys by sea. Amber™ provides real time location of their Sat Phones to agencies to help rescue these people.

Horizon Technologies provides solutions for any user, and any environment.

Our BlackFish™ and legacy FlyingFish™ systems are deployed in the air, on land (vehicle mount), on towers, and on vessels. Even better, they can be networked into a single integrated system for geolocating and monitoring L-band Sat Phone traffic.

Our Amber™ space-based maritime intelligence data network provides geolocations and demodulated data from maritime L-band Sat Phones and datalinks, X and S band maritime radars, and AIS.

Typical Amber Network