i2k Military Inflatables Case Study
THE SITUATION The U.S. Armed Force is constantly looking for new ways to train their operatives in the detection of enemy vehicles and aircraft. One technique that they use is…
ICEYE Raises €74m for 12 Satellites
ICEYE, a SAR data provider, today announced the closing of a larger than planned for $87M Series C funding, led by the return investor True Ventures, with a substantial investment…
Argentina Launches SAOCOM-1B Satellite into Polar Orbit
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Argentina’s SAOCOM-1B satellite into polar orbit, a flight path quite different from most vehicles launched from the East Coast of the U.S. which normally head…
Successful Deployment SAOCOM1B Satellite
Successful deployment of Argentina's #SAOCOM1B satellite! This radar sat will be measuring soil moisture content, an important indicator for agriculture. https://twitter.com/tanyaofmars/status/1300215843977134081?s=20
NRO Needs More SAR
AI need for NRO’s efforts to use large constellations of small satellites in the future to fill the huge appetite within the Intelligence Community and the military services for remote…
Capella Gets a NGA CRADA
Capella Space announced that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The CRADA gives Capella access to NGA researchers for deeper…
Sequoia Launch: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical!
Sequoia Launch: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical! WRITTEN BY PAYAM BANAZADEH, CEO AND FOUNDER OF CAPELLA SPACE ON AUGUST 24, 2020. POSTED IN CAPELLA SPACE. When I founded Capella…
John C. Trinder: Applications of SAR for Land Cover Analysis
“Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Land Cover Analysis” John C. Trinder School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; [email protected]…
DARPA Looking for SAR Algorithms
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the following technical areas: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); SAR processing and algorithms; and ground moving target detection, geolocation,…
COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Acquires 2 Images at Once
Second-generation maximizes COSMO-SkyMed system capabilities COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) is the first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite system in the world able to acquire two images simultaneously. Launched on December…