Payam Banazadeh, founder and CEO of Capella Space, has said the U.S. government needs to strike a balance between addressing national security concerns and ensuring private sector competitiveness in the global market, TechCrunch reported Monday.

Capella Space has agreed to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency access to imagery from the company's synthetic aperture radar satellites under a cooperative research and development agreement.

The Department of Defense has selected Capella Space to provide the U.S. Navy with synthetic aperture radar data under a new contract.

Capella Space and Rocket Lab entered into an agreement to launch a synthetic aperture radar satellite that will work to optimize the monitoring of key regions across the globe.

Capella Space has updated the design of its Sequoia radar satellite ahead of plans to establish an operational constellation over the next two years, Forbes magazine reported Friday.

Capella Space, an Earth observation information firm, has secured a contract to help the National Reconnaissance Office study the use of synthetic aperture radar.

Capella Space and the Air Force Research Laboratory will test the ability of the company’s constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites to facilitate imagery collection and data downloads under a $750K contract, Breaking Defense reported Monday.

Capella Space has secured a contract of undisclosed sum to integrate synthetic aperture radar data into virtual reality software used by the U.S. Air Force.

Capella Space has partnered with SpaceNet to help grow the nonprofit organization’s geospatial open source research initiative via the adoption of synthetic aperture radar data.

Capella Space has appointed three new vice presidents to lead the company’s product engineering, go-to-market and business strategy and U.S. government services. Scott Soenen, a 15-year veteran in geospatial intelligence, joined the aerospace company as VP of product engineering, Capella said Thursday.
 

SpaceX has sent its Falcon 9 launch vehicle to orbit carrying 143 spacecraft including 10 small satellites that will serve as part of the company’s Starlink broadband constellation, CNBC reported Sunday.

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s space vehicles directorate has chosen eight companies to participate in its collaborative Catalyst Space Accelerator program, which seeks to rapidly develop commercial technologies for space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

Inmarsat and Singapore-based communications firm Addvalue Innovation have introduced a service to facilitate data transfer between low-Earth orbit small satellites and ground stations. The partnership commissioned the Inter-satellite Data Relay System service Nov. 12 on Sequoia, a Capella Space synthetic aperture radar microsatellite, and launched the IDRS offering after completion of a live data connectivity demonstration, Inmarsat said Monday.

Rocket Lab's first in-house built satellite launched into orbit Monday as part of its 14th Electron mission that took off from a launch complex in New Zealand and fielded a microsatellite for Capella Space.

Amazon Web Services is offering AWS Ground Station, a new service that gives customers expanded access to satellite data through a network of ground stations around the world.