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US commercial SAR satellite operator and manufacturer of the Capella SAR constellation.

Capella Space describes its work as designing, building and operating satellite systems, alongside synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and automated tasking offerings.^[1] The company lists offices in Louisville, Chantilly and San Francisco.^[1] Its company timeline states that it was acquired by IonQ.^[2]

Capella advertises SAR imagery in collection modes including Spotlight Ultra, Spotlight, Spotlight Wide and Stripmap.^[3] Its automated tasking documentation describes submitting requests through a web console or application programming interface (API), with automated scheduling and notifications of estimated costs and configuration details.^[4]

The company's custom space-system offering covers mission modelling, constellation design, ground architecture, launch integration and on-orbit operations.^[5] Capella also describes manufacturing modular subsystems and complete spacecraft, and lists in-house radar and radio-frequency sensors among its sensor technologies.^[5]^[6]

Its interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) offering describes repeat-pass collections for monitoring an area of interest.^[7] The documented workflow includes defining an area through the console or API, choosing a collection mode, establishing a baseline image stack and selecting a repeat interval before automated scheduling, acquisition and delivery.^[7]

Operates

Capella Space SAR constellationOperational
Launched 2018-12-03 / Commercial SAR constellation; CEOS lists sun-synchronous orbit at about 575 km for Capella X-SAR / 0.25 day revisit

Manufactures

Capella X-band SARSAR
X-band / Operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator

Sources

[1]Capella Space official homepageoperator marketing2026-10-21
[2]Capella mission and company timelineoperator marketing2026-10-21
[3]Capella SAR Dataoperator marketing2026-10-21
[4]Capella Automated Taskingoperator marketing2026-10-21
[5]Capella Space Systemsoperator marketing2026-10-21
[6]Capella Sensor Technologyoperator marketing2026-10-21
[7]Capella InSARoperator marketing2026-10-21

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:capella-space,
  title = {Capella Space},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/capella-space}
}