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Capella Space previously won an $11,000,000 contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit.
Capella Space plans to build a constellation of the world’s smallest commercial radar satellites.
Capella is signing customers for demonstrations and pilot experiments for its second satellite, which is slated to launch on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in early 2019.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Capella a license to send two X-band SAR satellites into polar orbits between 450 and 600 km with a 97.5-degree inclination.
Capella was founded in 2016 and has raised more than $15,000,000 in private investment since its founding.
Capella plans to launch six additional satellites into two orbital planes later in 2019 to offer customers a maximum revisit rate of six hours.
Capella raised $12,000,000 in 2017 through a Series A investment round led by Nabeel Hyatt of Spark Capital.
Customers have signed tens of millions of dollars in contracts for data from Capella’s satellites planned for 2019.
The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental awarded Capella an additional $10,000,000 in 2017 and issued a stop-work order in October 2017 due to a lack of funding; the stop-work order was later lifted and Capella resumed its DIUX work.
Capella will launch four satellites per Rocket Lab Electron and deploy them into different orbital planes to build a multi-plane constellation with reduced operational and deployment complexity.