New SAR Launches Capella at (7), ICEYE at (14) and Umbra at (2)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 placed more than 100 smallsats into orbit Jan. 13 as the company accelerates the pace of its dedicated rideshare missions. The Falcon 9 lifted off from…
SpaceX Transporter #2 Launches Capella, ICEYE and Umbra Satellites
SpaceX has successfully launched the 88-satellite Transporter 2 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket and landed its 1st stage booster. The Transporter-2 payload manifest featured synthetic aperture radar (SAR)…
TechCrunch Features SAR “New Space” CEO’s
At TC Sessions: Space this December 16 & 17, we’ll be discussing what’s ahead for the market with some of the industry’s leading founders, including Payam Banazadeh, the chief executive…
Capella Space and East View Geospatial Announce Partnership
East View Geospatial EVG is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices in Russia, Kenya, China and Ukraine. Partners with Capella Space, headquartered in San Francisco, California with officers in Boulder, Colorado. East View maintains thousands of supplier/publisher relationships…
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Urthecast Bankruptcy Surprises No One.
Urthecast which was moved from the TSX to the OTC pink sheets years ago has finally filed for bankruptcy. In Canada this process it is called "the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act…
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…
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…
SAR Valuations SOAR in Space Race
According to various sources, total funding for space companies reached close to US$6 billion in 2019, raking in hundreds of millions from VC funds over the years. Once considered to…
Data fusion provides a 55% increase over training on SAR data alone.
Jacob Shermeyer, Daniel Hogan, Jason Brown, Adam Van Etten, Nicholas Weir, Fabio Pacifici, Ronny Haensch, Alexei Bastidas, Scott Soenen, Todd Bacastow, Ryan Lewis "We find that state-of-the-art segmentation models trained with multiple modalities outperform those trained with only a single…