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EO & GEOINT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-07-28

Capella Space

Active EO & GEOINT Private HQ: San Francisco, California Founded 2016

SAR operator. All-weather day-night imagery, sub-50cm resolution. Strong defense/intel base.

45.6
ARI Composite
High Risk
#11 of 31
Peer Rank
Eo Data cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

45.6
ARI composite · High Risk
Peer rank#11 of 31
Peer groupEo Data
Data coverage82%
Tracked gov contracts$10.0M across 1 awards

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital
$10.0M lifetime tracked obligations across 1 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($10.0M) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

SCHEDULE CREDIBILITY

How well this operator historically meets its own projected dates — launch NETs, company-announced roadmap milestones, and forward-dated facility plans. 100 = says what it does. Discount forward guidance accordingly.

INSUFFICIENT HISTORY
SCI · Insufficient history · 1 dated commitment
Behavioral read
insufficient history — 1 dated commitment tracked (score requires ≥5)
Source Events Late (share) Median slip Median slip, late only Sub-score On-time allowance
Roadmap milestones 1 0 (0%) 0 d 100.0 30 d

SCI = 100 × Σ(event credit) ÷ N over the trailing 36 months (2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28). Event credit = 1.0 when the commitment met its announced date (launches: net NET slip < 1 day; roadmap milestones & facility plans: within 30 days of the announced target window — month/year-precision targets count the whole period as on-time), else 30 ÷ (30 + days late beyond that allowance). Sources are pooled, so each source weighs by its event count. Sources: launch NET-change log (LL2 ingest, tracked since 2026-04-17; flown launches in coverage + not-yet-flown launches already slipped ≥1 day; cancelled launches excluded), roadmap registry milestones (company-announced targets, verified provenance only; open milestones past target count as late by days-overdue), facility_plans rows with target_date after announced_at (filing-dated rows excluded). Confidence: high ≥20 events, medium ≥8, low ≥5; no score below 5 events. 100 = says what it does.

Window: 2023-07-29 → 2026-07-28 (36 months) · launch NET log live since 2026-04-17

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorEO & GEOINT
Rank within sector#11 of 31
Tracked peers31

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Jun 25, 2026 Via Satellite Capella Validates Mynaric Optical Terminal on Latest SAR Satellite

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameCapella Space Corp.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
CountryUS
Founded2016
FounderPayam Banazadeh
CEOPayam Banazadeh
AliasesCapella Space, Capella
Key programsSAR constellation
Gov customersNGA, NRO, DoD
Last fundingSeries D, $60M
IPO statusPre-IPO

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Capella Space corporate homepage — operator confirmation for SAR EO constellation and All-Weather Earth Intelligence products.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against primary-source filings and operator investigation reports.