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Capella Space Corp., an American space tech company that offers data and satellite solutions for government and commercial applications, announced its selection to participate in the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) another transaction authority (OTA) procurement vehicle. This acquisition approach will enable Capella Space to bid on prototype orders to build satellite systems for the Space Development Agency (SDA).<\/p>\n
Capella Space owns a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, wholly designed, manufactured, and operated in-house. This constellation has been in commercial operation since January 2021, delivering high-quality SAR data to end-users and mission partners worldwide. Capella\u2019s SAR data has been used operationally across the globe in many applications, including oil spill detection, border monitoring, forest management, and the support of national defense missions.<\/p>\n
Capella was the first US company to demonstrate end-to-end, fully automated operation of a SAR constellation. They were also the first to use an Inmarsat Data Relay System, first to deliver 30-second multi-look imagery (dwell), first to partner with AWS on a cloud-native SAR platform, and to deploy a 3.5m mesh-based reflector from a small-sat.<\/p>\n
Capella\u2019s speed to delivery, end-to-end mission capability, mature manufacturing capability, and proven on-orbit track record are key ingredients for enabling future HALO missions.<\/p>\n
\u201cOwning and operating our satellite constellation enables us to quickly launch new satellites, deploy new capabilities, and offer actionable solutions tailored to meet diverse mission needs,\u201d said Frank Backes, CEO of Capella Space<\/strong>. \u201cWe have built a platform around agility in design, quality in manufacturing, and speed in operation through automation \u2013 all of it enabled by a world-class team. We look forward to leveraging all of that in support of the SDA\u2019s unique missions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSDA is proud to welcome 19 vendors into the first-ever HALO pool,\u201d said SDA Director Derek Tournear<\/strong>. \u201cThis creative award solution enables SDA to quickly compete, build, and fly demonstration missions to burn down risk for the future of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. We also hope, through the HALO pool, to build a broader base of vendors that can compete for work on operational layers of future tranches.\u201d<\/p>\n HALO enables Capella Space to also compete for Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System (T2DES) and other SDA demonstration projects. This award builds on the strong partnerships Capella Space has developed with other US government agencies including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Capella Space Corp., an American space tech company that offers data and satellite solutions for government and commercial applications, announced its selection to participate in the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) another transaction authority (OTA) procurement vehicle. This acquisition approach will enable Capella Space to bid on prototype orders to build satellite systems for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,38,20],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403"}],"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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}