With $97M in new capital, Capella offers ‘change detection’ analytics

With $97M in new capital, Capella offers ‘change detection’ analytics
With $97M in new capital, Capella offers ‘change detection’ analytics

How many satellites Capella eventually launches depends on customer demand for faster and faster revisit rates, Capella CEO Payam Banazadeh told Breaking Defense.

Exclusive: Amid national security concerns, US slaps overhead time limits on satellites

Exclusive: Amid national security concerns, US slaps overhead time limits on satellites
Exclusive: Amid national security concerns, US slaps overhead time limits on satellites

“These restrictions would severely hurt commercial companies’ ability to operate high resolution constellations and is counter to the efforts of the past two years to make NOAA regs streamlined and enable US companies to compete internationally,” one industry rep said.

As BlackSky Tees Up Hourly Imagery, NRO Extends Contract

As BlackSky Tees Up Hourly Imagery, NRO Extends Contract
As BlackSky Tees Up Hourly Imagery, NRO Extends Contract

“We really view ourselves, not as a space company, not as a satellite company, but as a geospatial intelligence company,” says BlackSky’s Chief Technical Officer Peter Wegner.

NGA Gears Up For All Domain Ops

NGA Gears Up For All Domain Ops
NGA Gears Up For All Domain Ops

NGA is tapping industry for new capabilities, such as “persistent change detection” and “geolocation” of potential targets such as an adversary’s ships.

NGA Taps Maxar To Do Land Use Change Detection

NGA Taps Maxar To Do Land Use Change Detection
NGA Taps Maxar To Do Land Use Change Detection

Maxar will provide updates and enhancements using “its sophisticated change detection model and deliver land cover and classification solutions.”

Air Force To Test Capella’s Rapid Sat Tasking

Air Force To Test Capella’s Rapid Sat Tasking
Air Force To Test Capella’s Rapid Sat Tasking

AFRL will test Capella’s SAR satellites ability to provide “object identification, change detection, and tip and cueing with other military systems,” says Capella’s Dan Brophy.

Air Force Seeks Out NASCAR For Video Data Mining Lessons

PENTAGON CITY: Hungry for answers on how to make more effective use of the tens of thousands of hours of video gathered by Predators, Global Hawks and other military eyes in the sky, Air Force officials recently visited NASCAR, the car racing people, to learn better and faster ways of mining video data. “We have…