A young company in Palo Alto called Capella Space, which announced $12 million in new funding on May 9, has figured out a way to create much smaller, cheaper versions of SAR satellites. If the technology lives up to its billing, it would make this type of imaging available to businesses, not just governments. The idea is that hedge funds, farmers, city planners, and others would buy the pictures to track changes in the world around them. “We’re going after hourly images of anywhere on Earth that people care about,” says Payam Banazadeh, Capella’s co-founder and chief executive officer.
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