Capella Space raised $20 million for its space radar
The origami practice takes place at a facility in Boulder, Colorado, but Capella is based in a corner of San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood.
It’s there that the antenna will be attached to a 36-kilogram satellite; that’s light for a satellite, and that matters in this business.
The small spacecraft can be built and launched at a cost in the millions of dollars, an order of magnitude cheaper than the current generation of radar satellites.
This technology is called Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and if it works, Capella will be the first US company to deploy it in space.
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