Capella Space Corporation of San Francisco is providing high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) (0.5 meter to 1.2 meters) commercial Earth observation data products. For specifications on the Capella Space SAR instruments, please see the Capella Space Commercial Data listing at the bottom of this page.

Authorized Data Use and Users

All members of the U.S. Government and researchers funded by the U.S. Government have access to Capella Space data. All data requests must be approved by NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program.

End User License Agreement

USG EULA

Obtaining Data

• To request access to CSDA-distributed data, complete the CSDA Authorization form. The CSDA team will verify if the user is authorized for data access. Once verified, the user will be notified.
• Search for Capella Space data using the CSDA Satellite Data Explorer (SDX)
• Download direct from the SDX (Earthdata login required) or use the Bulk Download Tool

Copyright

Data products and derivatives for imagery must contain the following copyright markings (YYYY is the year of the image acquisition):

• For data products: “© Capella Space Corporation YYYY. All rights reserved.”
• For derivatives: “Includes copyrighted material of Capella Space Corporation All rights reserved.”
• A joint copyright notice may be used as appropriate

Authorized users should send CSDA a courtesy copy of any publications that include CSDA-provided data.

CSDA Acknowledgment

To help CSDA identify your publications, we request that you include the following acknowledgment when publishing work created using these data:

"This work utilized data made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program."

Evaluation

The Capella Space data evaluation is complete and the data acquired during the evaluation are in the Satellite Data Explorer tool (SDX). The completed Capella Space Principal Investigator Evaluation Summary, and the Capella Space Radiometric & Geometric Quality Assessment Report are available for review.

Constellation

Capella Space has five of their Acadia class satellites in operation, as of August 2025. Orbital planes for each:

• o C11 (Acadia-1): Mid-latitude 53 degrees
• o C13 (Acadia-3): Mid-latitude 53 degrees
• o C14 (Acadia-4): Mid-latitude 45 degrees
• o C15 (Acadia-5): Sun synchronous orbit 98 degrees
• o C17 (Acadia-7): Sun synchronous orbit 98 degrees

In addition, there is archive data for 10 satellites of their previous classes that have reached their end of life. They were in operation between 1 and 4 years.

Imaging modes

Acquisition Mode	Scene Size	Resolution
Spotlight - Ultra	5x5km	0.25m
Spotlight	5x5km	0.5m
Spotlight - Wide	10x20km	1.00m
Stripmap - 20	10x20km	1.20m
Stripmap - 50	10x50km	1.20m
Stripmap - 100	10x100km	1.20m