# Capella Space
*commercial . companies*

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

## Specifications
- **country**: United States
- **website**: https://www.capellaspace.com/
- **operator domains**: ["capellaspace.com"]
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: sw
- **claim status**: unclaimed

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

Capella advertises SAR imagery in collection modes including Spotlight Ultra, Spotlight, Spotlight Wide and Stripmap.[^capella-sar-data] 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.[^capella-tasking]

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

Its interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) offering describes repeat-pass collections for monitoring an area of interest.[^capella-insar] 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.[^capella-insar]

## Supply chain position
- capella-space (missions) --[mission_operator]--> Capella Space

## Sources
- [capella-home] | Capella Space official homepage | https://www.capellaspace.com/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:03:30.325111+00:00
- [capella-space-systems] | Capella Space Systems | https://www.capellaspace.com/solution/space-systems | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:04:28.985896+00:00
- [capella-sensor-technology] | Capella Sensor Technology | https://www.capellaspace.com/solution/sensor-technology | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:04:29.146629+00:00
- [capella-tasking] | Capella Automated Tasking | https://www.capellaspace.com/solution/automated-tasking | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:04:28.912627+00:00
- [capella-insar] | Capella InSAR | https://www.capellaspace.com/solution/insar | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:04:29.210245+00:00
- [capella-sar-data] | Capella SAR Data | https://www.capellaspace.com/solution/sar-data | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:04:28.874585+00:00
- [capella-mission] | Capella mission and company timeline | https://www.capellaspace.com/our-mission | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-10-21T18:04:29.211677+00:00

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