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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Rocket Lab’s Electron suffered a stage separation anomaly on 2023-09-19 that prevented the Capella Space payload from reaching orbit.
Capella Space’s Acadia-4 synthetic aperture radar satellite flew as a payload on Bandwagon-1.
Bandwagon-1 passenger satellites include Capella Space’s Acadia-4, HawkEye 360’s clusters 8 and 9 totaling six satellites, and iQPS’s QPS-SAR-7 (Tsukuyomi-2).
Capella Space plans to launch four to five more satellites 2024.
Capella Space currently operates a constellation of three to four synthetic aperture radar satellites at any given time and regularly refreshes its orbiting fleet.
Capella Space builds and operates synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites to image the Earth.
Capella Space partnered with TCarta to add high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery to TCarta’s coastal monitoring and shoreline feature extraction solutions.
Capella Space provides 24/7, all-weather SAR imagery and automated tasking capabilities for coastal monitoring applications.
Capella Space partnered with Floodbase to provide high-resolution SAR satellite data to Floodbase’s end-to-end solution for parametric flood insurance.
The 2023-12-14 launch was Rocket Lab’s first Electron flight since a 2023-09-19 failure during a launch for Capella Space.
Capella Space’s system design provides up to 5x more on-orbit imaging time per satellite relative to other commercial SAR providers.
Capella Space will continue working with Rocket Lab to launch satellites into orbit.
Capella Space will launch two Acadia satellites, Acadia-4 and Acadia-5, with SpaceX in 2024.
Capella Space will continue working with Rocket Lab to launch satellites into orbit but has not disclosed dates for those launches.
Electron rockets launched earlier versions of Capella radar imaging satellites in August 2020 and March 2023.
Capella Space will launch two Acadia radar imaging satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions in the first half of 2024.
Capella Space signed a contract in February 2023 with Rocket Lab for four launches of its new line of Acadia satellites.
NorthStar pivoted to Rocket Lab for a fall launch but faced a delay after Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket failed in September 2023 to deploy an imaging satellite for Capella Space.
Capella Space will continue working with Rocket Lab to launch satellites into orbit.
Capella Space’s system design provides up to 5x more on-orbit imaging time per satellite relative to other commercial synthetic-aperture radar providers.