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Capella Space Signs SAR Data Contract with U.S. Navy

By Rachel Jewett

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

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Capella Space Signs SAR Data Contract with U.S. Navy

Artist impression of Capella SAR satellite. Background image courtesy NASA. Photo: Capella Space

Capella Space has signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to provide Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the U.S. Navy, through the Defense Innovation Unit’s Commercial Solutions Opening. Capella said Wednesday that it will provide the DoD with SAR data collected by an airborne collection campaign using Capella’s synthetic radar flown on board a specially equipped and outfitted airplane, and also provide its in-house analytics services. SAR data differs from optical data in that the images can be taken at…

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