A Sky Full Of SARs

Rocket Lab launched a dedicated mission for Capella Space, a provider of SAR imagery data and solutions for government and commercial applications.

‘A Sky Full of SARs’ was Rocket Lab’s fifth launch overall for Capella Space across multiple launch contracts beginning from 2020. The mission deployed Capella’s Acadia-3 SAR satellite, a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Earth imagery and observation, to a mid-inclination 615km circular orbit to add to Capella’s existing SAR satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.