{"id":58070,"date":"2021-02-17T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/synspective-releases-its-first-sar-image-from-space\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:11:11","slug":"synspective-releases-its-first-sar-image-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/synspective-releases-its-first-sar-image-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Synspective Releases its First SAR Image From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Synspective<\/b> has acquired its first image from its debut Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, marking the first commercial SAR image from a Japanese company. The satellite, dubbed striX-\u03b1, was launched on a dedicated <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> Electron mission in mid-December. Synspective released the image, collected on Feb. 8 in South Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Synspective is one of Japan\u2019s highest-funded startups, and has raised just under $100 million. The company is working to build a constellation of six satellites by 2023, and 30 satellites by the late 2020s. Its second demonstration satellite, striX-\u03b2, will demonstrate Interferometric SAR (InSAR) technology, a SAR analytics technique to detect millimeter-level displacements on the ground surface. That satellite is set to be launched later this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cFor a satellite data solution company, the most difficult but the most crucial milestone is the acquisition of data from an own-built satellite,\u201d said Dr. Motoyuki Arai, founder and CEO of Synspective. \u201cNow, we are proceeding with preparations for data sales [and] we are planning to release more solution services using our own data.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Synspective is a concrete example of how the Japanese government has fostered innovation in its space industry. The came out of a high-risk R&amp;D government program called imPACT, through the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation. Synspective\u2019s payload technology is owned by <strong>JAXA<\/strong>, and bus-related technology is owned by the <strong>University of Tokyo<\/strong>. Synspective has a mission to implement these technologies, and is making them available under a joint R&amp;D agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synspective has acquired its first image from its debut Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, marking the first commercial SAR image from a Japanese company. The satellite, dubbed striX-\u03b1, was launched on a dedicated Rocket Lab Electron mission in mid-December. Synspective released the image, collected on Feb. 8 in South Florida.&nbsp; Synspective is one of Japan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58072,"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-58070","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\/58070"}],"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=58070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}