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Capella Space has built a 24/7 mission control center.
Capella Space’s Board of Directors includes Matt O’Connell, Operating Partner at Data Collective Venture Capital and former CEO of GeoEye for 12 years.
Capella Space provides 0.5 m x 0.5 m Spotlight or “Spot” synthetic aperture radar (SAR) commercial imagery.
Capella Space vertically designed, built, and operates its SAR satellites with manufacturing facilities in California and Colorado.
Capella Space is an American commercial SAR company that has designed, built, and now operates its satellites domestically.
Capella Space’s 0.5 m x 0.5 m Spot imagery captured retired aircraft and their shadows at Roswell International Air Center in New Mexico with granular details such as cockpit, fuselage, wings, and engines.
Capella Space’s 0.5 m x 0.5 m Spot imagery delivers equal 0.5 m resolution in both ground range and azimuth.
Capella Space’s long-dwell Spot mode produces higher signal-to-noise imagery and reduced speckle compared with typical SAR imagery, enabling clearer images for visual analysis.
Capella Space achieves 0.5 m x 0.5 m imagery by dwelling its satellites over a single area of interest for up to 60 seconds.
Capella Space implemented automated satellite tasking through Inmarsat geostationary satellites and provides cloud-based data processing and data delivery through an API and a web application.
Capella Space plans to upgrade and release higher-resolution imagery down to 0.25 m as regulations permit.
Capella Space has been working to establish a constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites to provide daily global imagery and data to government and commercial customers.
Sequoia is a 100-kilogram radar satellite developed by Capella Space.
Capella Space released radar satellite images on 2020-12-16 with a resolution of 0.5 m by 0.5 m.
Capella Space asserts that a 50-centimeter by 50-centimeter resolution is the highest resolution available from a commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite operator.
Capella Space successfully relayed data on 2020-11-23 between its on-ground operations center and its Sequoia synthetic aperture radar satellite in low Earth orbit.
Capella Space ordered six IDRS terminals under a contract announced at the 2019 International Astronautical Congress.
Capella Space used a geostationary satellite for real-time tasking during the IDRS demonstration.
Inmarsat and Addvalue Innovation relayed data on 2020-11-23 between Capella Space’s operations center on the ground and Capella Space’s Sequoia synthetic aperture radar satellite in low Earth orbit.
Capella Space conducted the first commercial demonstration of the IDRS service on 2020-11-12 by sending tasking orders to its Sequoia satellite through the Inmarsat-4 L-band constellation in geostationary orbit.