01 · Product name

Capella Space

A commercial SAR operator with a console and an API for tasking.

Published by Capella Space.

In short

Capella Space operates a synthetic-aperture radar constellation and describes a cloud console and API for tasking, collection, and delivery. The homepage says scheduling cycles are 15 minutes and that collection is sold as data-as-a-service, alongside spacecraft work that is a different offer. Access starts with an inquiry. A community open-data URL returned HTTP 404 on 16 Oct 2026, so this listing does not treat a public catalog as available. A SAR frame is an all-weather observation. It is not a photograph of a person.

Website

Product pricing strategy

Premium

The Capella homepage opened on 16 Oct 2026 does not print a per-scene price or a square-kilometre rate. It describes data-as-a-service through a console and an API, reached by an inquiry. Do not copy an Umbra or SkyFi SAR price onto Capella. The open-data path that used to be cited returned 404, so there is no free-catalog price to quote either. Get the tier from Capella.

Utility and features

capellaspace.com says Capella designs and operates satellites and delivers SAR through a tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination system. It names a cloud platform, a self-service console, an API, 15-minute scheduling cycles, and flexible collection tiers. The contact path on that page is an inquiry: data-as-a-service, space systems, or a partnership. The team then says whether SAR fits.

Console and API. The homepage says tasking and delivery run through a self-service console and an API.
Inquiry first. The page asks what you need, then says Capella decides whether SAR is the fit.
No open catalog from here. The community open-data URL returned 404 on 16 Oct 2026.

A URL that third parties still cite for a Capella open-data program, under the site's community path, returned HTTP 404 on 16 Oct 2026. This listing does not describe scenes from a catalog it could not open, and it does not invent a Creative Commons grant. Commercial prices were not printed on the homepage. SAR is useful when clouds or darkness block an optical pass. The return is still a radar product with a mode, a resolution class, and a time. It does not become an identification because the optical image was cloudy.

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Start from capellaspace.com and submit the inquiry if you need a contract. Do not use the 404 community URL.
2
Say the product is SAR when you brief it. Do not pair it with an optical caption.
3
Keep the collect time and the mode with the file.
4
Use Umbra or ICEYE open data when you need a public SAR scene you can download without a Capella login.

Caveats

SAR sees through cloud and at night in the sense the vendor claims for radar, and it does not show a face the way an optical frame can. Do not describe a bright radar return as a vehicle unless the product's resolution and your own reading of the frame support that, and say it is a radar detection.

The console was not opened. Fifteen-minute scheduling is the homepage's claim about the system, not a promise that your order will collect in fifteen minutes. A 404 on the old open-data path means you cannot tell a reader to download a Capella open scene from that URL.

Potential use cases

An optical collect failed for cloud or darkness and a Capella contract exists. Call the file SAR in the caption, and keep the collect time and the mode. The homepage describes a console and an API reached through an inquiry, with 15-minute scheduling cycles as the vendor's claim about the system. That claim is not a promise your order collected in fifteen minutes. Attach the delivery notice before you brief the timing.
A citation still points at Capella's community open-data path. Open it. On 16 Oct 2026 that URL returned HTTP 404. Do not describe scenes from a catalog you cannot open, and do not invent a Creative Commons grant. Use Umbra's open-data page or ICEYE's public map when the job allows a free SAR scene. Use Capella when the contract is the point.
A proposal mixes spacecraft sales with a data order. The homepage splits data-as-a-service from space systems and partnerships. Say which inquiry you sent. A satellite the customer would own is not the same document as a scene you download. Neither one had a public price on the homepage.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

A bright radar return is called a vehicle

SAR is not a photograph of a face, and a bright pixel is not a vehicle until the product's resolution and your reading of the frame support that, and you say it is a radar detection. The console was not opened for this listing, so there is no mode menu here to quote. If the delivery package names the mode and the resolution class, use those words. If it does not, stop at 'SAR collect' and the time.

Questions

Is Capella Space free?

The homepage describes contracted data access. An old open-data URL returned 404 on 16 Oct 2026. No free catalog was opened.

Is Capella optical imagery?

No. The homepage describes synthetic-aperture radar, a console, and an API.

Citations

Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.

Product
Capella Space homepage
https://www.capellaspace.com/