EO·Atlas
Preview build / EO·Atlas v0.9, content still landing
EO·Atlas / Buses / Dragonfly-C
Bus · products

Dragonfly-C

Compiled from public sources. Not independently verified by Dragonfly Aerospace.

Work at Dragonfly Aerospace? This page is unclaimed. Claim it free to keep it accurate and add your links. What operators can do →

Claim this page

Dragonfly Aerospace platform variant pairing the Dragonfly Bus with a C-band synthetic aperture radar payload. Total mass 350 kg: bus dry mass 163 kg, SAR-C payload mass 176 kg. Deployable phased array antenna. Imaging modes: Stripmap (20-44 km swath), Spotlight (10 km swath), ScanSAR (100 km swath), VideoSAR. Range bandwidth 300-600 MHz. X-Band data downlink up to 2.5 Gbps (1 Gbps average). Onboard processing for real-time SAR image formation, ground moving target identification (GMTI), and object detection and tracking. Status: in production (not yet launched as of 2026-05-28).

Dragonfly-C is a Dragonfly-family platform product integrated with a C-band synthetic aperture radar payload.[1] SatCatalog gives a 350 kg total satellite mass, with 163 kg bus dry mass and 176 kg payload mass; platform-only dry mass is therefore reported separately from total integrated mass.[1]

The SAR payload uses a deployable phased-array antenna and supports Stripmap, Spotlight, ScanSAR, and VideoSAR imaging modes.[1] Published swath figures are 20-44 km for Stripmap, 10 km for Spotlight, and 100 km for ScanSAR.[1] The specification gives 300-600 MHz range bandwidth, X-band data downlink up to 2.5 Gbps peak and 1 Gbps average, plus onboard processing for real-time SAR image formation, ground moving target indication, and object detection and tracking.[1]

SatCatalog describes Dragonfly-C as in production.[1]

Operator pricing

Pricing not publicly listed by operator

Sources
Cite https://eo-atlas.org/products/bus/dragonfly-c Markdown twin → Field definitions → Suggest a correction →
How to cite this page

Plain text

Dragonfly-C. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/products/bus/dragonfly-c (CC BY 4.0)

BibTeX

@misc{eoatlas:products:bus:dragonfly-c,
  title = {Dragonfly-C},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/bus/dragonfly-c}
}