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Announcing Arena Magazine Issue 007: For Your Eyes Only. The subject of our seventh magazine was predestined from the time we decided to call the first one “Issue 001.” For Issue 007, we couldn’t not write about spies, intelligence, and espionage. (and yes, James Bond, but don’t tell our lawyers) We went big — galaxy-sized, even. The future of intelligence is not just suits in cubicles but in the sky above us. Arena Issue 007 implores you to take a closer look, both on Earth and in the skies above us. Satellites. Lasers. Radars. Missiles. In the pages of Arena Issue 007, you’ll find it all. It’s shipping to print subscribers this week. Here’s a little taste of what’s coming in the Issue… - Martin Gurri’s reflections on his time at Langley as a CIA analyst - An interview with Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-American former CIA paramilitary operative who had a front row seat to the Bay of Pigs and the capture of Che Guevara - A plan from Pablo Peniche about how we can weaponize space debris to clean up space and keep our enemies at bay - A tour inside the Santa Barbara-based Umbra, a satellite startup giving private and public actors the ability to see the unseen with radar, courtesy of Maxwell Meyer, - Julia S.’s profile of the young hackers behind Jmail, a project to make the life of Jeffrey Epstein — and the secrets of the three-letter agencies — hyper-legibile - A history of industrial espionage from 16th century compasses to EUV lithography from Brian Balkus And that’s just six out of nineteen articles in Arena Issue 007. We’ll be publishing them online over the course of the next few months. At 128 pages, it’s our longest issue yet. We’re pleased to welcome new advertisers like WorkOS. We love great print advertisements — don’t you? — and it makes it possible to publish bigger issues of Arena at the absolute highest quality. Over the last year and half, we’ve heard from so many Arena subscribers who send us pictures of the magazines in their homes and offices. (please, continue to email me those pictures!) It wasn’t obvious at the beginning of this crazy project that a print magazine about American business could make it in this digital age. You have made it possible. So, to our print subscribers, a word of gratitude: it means the world to us, and we’re going to chop down a lot more trees over the coming years. Issue 007 will be in mailboxes soon. We hope you love it. If you aren’t yet a print subscriber, sign up in the comment below!

Every mission is multi-sensor. Starting today, you can task Umbra SAR directly from Vantor Hub without switching gears. WorldView Radar is integrated into Vantor Hub through our partnership with Umbra, bringing high-resolution spotlight SAR into the same environment where you access the industry's most trusted spatial foundation. Vantor's high-resolution data serves as an important reference for interpreting and understanding insights from SAR imagery. Umbra operates one of the most capable commercial SAR constellations in orbit today. Their satellites deliver spotlight collections down to 25 cm resolution, with longer dwell options that improve signal return and reduce speckle. The result is radar imagery that helps analysts detect activity and identify objects even when they’re partially obscured. The goal is simple: keep SAR and EO in the same operational workflow so teams can pivot sensors without changing tools. SAR tasking in Hub is rolling out in beta for select customers; reach out to your Vantor sales rep to get started.   https://lnkd.in/eRCqRwcU