{"id":56418,"date":"2021-10-22T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/capella-space-signs-research-and-development-agreement-with-us-army-smdtc\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T10:58:28","slug":"capella-space-signs-research-and-development-agreement-with-us-army-smdtc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/capella-space-signs-research-and-development-agreement-with-us-army-smdtc\/","title":{"rendered":"Capella Space\u00a0Signs Research and Development Agreement with US Army SMDTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Capella Space <\/b>has signed a research and development agreement with the <b>U.S. Army<\/b><strong> Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC)<\/strong> to use its data from space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Capella announced Oct. 21 that SMDTC will integrate its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data into the U.S. Army\u2019s Payload Development Lab. Capella said the U.S. Army will explore Capella\u2019s SAR technology and other space-based technology concepts in both simulated and test environments. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army SDMTC performs science and technology, research and development, and test and evaluation; manages and operates the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site; and conducts space operations and space domain awareness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSMDTC is looking forward to this partnership with the team at Capella Space,\u201d said Tom&nbsp; Webber, the director for the Technical Center, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. \u201cCapella is the first U.S. company to commercialize SAR and is uniquely positioned to provide mission-critical support to tactical users and advance the Army\u2019s critical mission.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Capella has a number of contracts for its SAR data with U.S. government and military partners including the <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong>, <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>, <strong>National Geospatial Agency<\/strong>, <strong>In-Q-Tel<\/strong>, the <strong>Space Development Agency<\/strong>, and the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capella Space has signed a research and development agreement with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC) to use its data from space.&nbsp; Capella announced Oct. 21 that SMDTC will integrate its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data into the U.S. Army\u2019s Payload Development Lab. Capella said the U.S. Army will explore Capella\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56419,"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-56418","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\/56418"}],"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=56418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}