{"id":101151,"date":"2020-01-21T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/capella-space-reveals-new-satellite-design-for-real-time-control-of-high-resolution-earth-imaging"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:07:27","slug":"capella-space-reveals-new-satellite-design-for-real-time-control-of-high-resolution-earth-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/capella-space-reveals-new-satellite-design-for-real-time-control-of-high-resolution-earth-imaging","title":{"rendered":"Capella Space reveals new satellite design for real-time control of high-resolution Earth imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/day11hxuyKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Satellite and Earth observation startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capellaspace.com\">Capella Space<\/a> has unveiled a new design for its satellite technology, which improves upon its existing testbed hardware platform to deliver high-resolution imaging capable of providing detail at less than 0.5 meters (1.6 feet). Its new satellite, code-named \u201cSequoia,\u201d also will be able to provide real-time tasking, meaning Capella\u2019s clients will be able to get imaging from these satellites of a desired area basically on demand.<\/p>\n<p>Capella\u2019s satellites are \u201csynthetic aperture radar\u201d (SAR for short) imaging satellites, which means they\u2019re able to provide 2D images of the Earth\u2019s surface even through cloud cover, or when the area being imaged is on the night side of the planet. SAR imaging resolution is typically much higher than the 0.5-meter range that Capella\u2019s new design will enable \u2014 and it\u2019s especially challenging to get that kind of performance from small satellites, which is what Sequoia will be.<\/p>\n<p>The new satellite design is a \u201cdirect result of customer feedback,\u201d Capella says, and includes advancements like an improved solar array for faster charging and quicker recycling; better thermals to allow it to image for longer stretches at a time; a much more agile targeting array, which means it can switch targets much more quickly in response to customer needs; and a higher bandwidth downlink, meaning it can transfer more data per orbital pass than any other SAR system from a commercial company in its size class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite and Earth observation startup Capella Space has unveiled a new design for its satellite technology, which improves upon its existing testbed hardware platform to deliver high-resolution imaging capable of providing detail at less than 0.5 meters (1.6 feet). Its new satellite, code-named \u201cSequoia,\u201d also will be able to provide real-time tasking, meaning Capella\u2019s clients [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}