Capella Space is an American space technology company and the first U.S. company to commercialize Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. They design, manufacture, and operate a constellation of SAR satellites to provide high-resolution, all-weather Earth observation imagery and geospatial solutions for government and commercial customers. Capella's key products include SAR imagery with industry-leading resolution, and they partner with organizations like NASA, SkyWatch, LiveEO and Floodbase to deliver advanced analytics and data.
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Capella Space unveiled images from the Sequoia satellite on 2023-10-06.
Capella Space developed a fully American designed, built, and operated commercial SAR capability.
When Capella Space was started in 2016, several European providers were operating and building commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and the United States had no commercial SAR operator.
Sequoia, Capella Space’s first operational satellite, launched on 2023-08-30 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.
Capella Space plans to establish a constellation of 36 satellites to obtain synthetic aperture radar imagery with a resolution of 0.5 m updated within an hour.
Capella Space anticipated launching a total of seven satellites in 2020 but stopped publicizing launch plans months ahead of time after the COVID-19 pandemic slowed flights.
Capella Space has raised more than $80,000,000 since its establishment in 2016.
Capella Space launched Sequoia, its first operational synthetic aperture radar satellite, on 2020-08-30 on a Rocket Lab Electron.
First Light was launched as the kick stage of an Electron mission that placed Capella Space’s Sequoia radar imaging satellite into orbit on 2020-08-30.
Sequoia is a 100-kilogram-class synthetic aperture radar satellite that follows Capella Space’s demonstration satellite Denali launched in late 2018.
Capella Space previously planned to launch Sequoia as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 launch of Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B in March 2020.
Rocket Lab successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for Capella Space on 2020-08-30.
Capella Space’s Sequoia satellite was scheduled to launch no earlier than 2020-08-30 at 11:05 p.m. from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand launchpad.
For its sixth challenge, SpaceNet created an open-source dataset that combined Capella Space synthetic aperture radar imagery with Maxar WorldView-2 electro-optical imagery and asked competitors to automatically identify building footprints.
Capella launched its first satellite, a technology demonstration, in 2018.
Capella Space is the first U.S. commercial synthetic aperture radar satellite company to announce a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with NGA.
Capella plans to launch its Whitney constellation satellites on rockets flown by Rocket Lab, SpaceX and other providers.
Capella Space and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement on 2020-06-25.
Capella builds synthetic aperture radar satellites in-house, enabling the company to modify satellite components to address specific customer problems.
Capella doubled the size of its satellites and redesigned the reflector antenna for its Whitney constellation of seven satellites scheduled to begin launching 2020 on rockets flown by Rocket Lab, SpaceX and others.