{"id":53300,"date":"2023-06-09T21:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/capella-space-wins-five-year-sar-imagery-purchase-deal-from-nasa\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:12:01","slug":"capella-space-wins-five-year-sar-imagery-purchase-deal-from-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/capella-space-wins-five-year-sar-imagery-purchase-deal-from-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Capella Space Wins Five-Year SAR Imagery Purchase Deal from NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provider <strong>Capella Space<\/strong> has been awarded a five year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Earth Science Division for high-resolution SAR imagery. The agreement will facilitate fixed price call-off contracts valued up to $7 million per call, effective for five years from the date of the agreement, Capella confirmed in an announcement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The sole-source agreement provides NASA with access to Capella\u2019s commercial SAR image products ranging from 0.5 to 1.2 meter ground resolution.<\/p>\n<p>This BPA is funded by the Earth Science Division of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in support of NASA\u2019s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Imagery procured under this agreement will provide NASA\u2019s Earth Science Division with additional perspective for scientific research of Earth\u2019s interconnected systems, enhancing existing NASA datasets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA is excited for the opportunity to evaluate high resolution SAR data from Capella Space in the context of our Earth Science research, analysis and applications portfolios,\u201d NASA CSDA Program Scientist Dr. Will McCarty said in a statement. \u201cWith the advent of SAR from commercial sources like Capella Space, we are interested how these small satellite constellations can supplement our existing NASA datasets and capabilities. Ultimately, we aim to leverage these data to provide new perspectives on the scientific priorities of the Earth Science Division.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provider Capella Space has been awarded a five year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by NASA\u2018s Earth Science Division for high-resolution SAR imagery. The agreement will facilitate fixed price call-off contracts valued up to $7 million per call, effective for five years from the date of the agreement, Capella confirmed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}