Overview of operational SAR satellite missions.
Company Name / Satellite Mission | Country | Band | Best Resolution | Importat Notes |
AirBus (TerraSAR) | Germany | X-Band | 72cm | |
e-Geos (CosmoSkyMed) | Italy | X-Band | 1 meter | |
Capella Space | USA | X-Band | 50 cm | |
MDA (RCM) | Canada | C-Band | 3 meter | |
ICEYE | Finland | X-Band | 50cm | |
Umbra Space | USA | X-Band | 16cm | |
Synspective | Japan | X-Band | 1 meter | |
iQPS | Japan | X-Band | 75cm | |
Spacety | China | C-Band | 3 meter | |
China’s L-SAR 01 | China | L-Band | ? | |
China Siwei Survey and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd | China | | ? | |
Huanjing Juanjing | China | S-Band | ? | |
Coming Soon?
Company Name / Satellite Mission | Funding | Launch Date | Note |
Array Labs | $5M | ? | https://spacenews.com/introducing-array-labs/ |
Dead/Failed/No Updates
Mission | Status | Note |
Terran Orbital (LLAP) “PredaSAR” | Discontinued | “PredaSAR” was officially discontinued Nov 2022 (source) |
Athena | Bankrupt | Failed to raise funding |
R2 Space | Discontinued | Founder, partnership issues |
Alpha Insights | Failure | Failed to raise funding |
UrtheCast “Opti-SAR” | Bankrupt | urthecast.com |
XpressSAR | No Updates | last update in 2018 |
Trident Space | Acquired | No updates |
MetaSensing StarSAR-X | Discontinued | Seems to only be doing a “payload” now (source) |