Satellite start-up Capella Space aims to tap $60 billion intelligence market with new imagery

Video caption: This video shows the Capella-3 satellite’s reflector deployment, using its boom as a “selfie stick”. The reflector is folded and compact as it reaches space and expands to a 3.5 meter diameter object. Capella Space. Article by Michael Sheetz. CNBC – March 18, 2021.

• Satellite imagery specialist Capella Space released the first images captured by its two spacecrafts launched in January.

• The images show the Rybachiy nuclear submarine base in western Russia, the “Temple of Heaven” buildings in Beijing and the “India Gate” in New Delhi.

• Capella aims to tap part of an Earth intelligence market it estimates is worth about $60 billion.

Satellite imagery specialist Capella Space on Thursday released the first images captured by its two latest spacecraft launched in January.

The firm is trying to tap part of an Earth intelligence market it estimates is worth about $60 billion.

Capella’s business is based on combining a special type of imagery with a small, inexpensive spacecraft. The company is building a network of satellites that can capture images of places on Earth multiple times a day. […]

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