CAPELLA SPACE CORP

San Francisco, CA · Founded 2016 · Aerospace · Acquired by IonQ (2025)

High-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging system

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · capellaspace.com

Sector: Aerospace
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2016
Latest Form D: $29.4M, Dec 2019
Total capital: $106M

Federal grants: $12.7M; 4 awards · 2019–2024; Rank in peer group#14 of 89
Private capital raised: $76.8M; 4 Form D · last Dec 2019; 83 months since last filing
Federal contracts: $16.7M; 17 awards · Interior, Defense, Environmental Prot; Rank in Aerospace#171 of 1335
Granted patents: None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

Latest events

Dec 2025Federal contractDefense · Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (shield) Initial Order.$500
Nov 2025Federal contractNASA · Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (csda) Program. Task Order For Disaster Response Satellite Data$209K
Sep 2025Federal contractNASA · Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (csda) Program. Task Order For Synthetic Aperture RADAR Tasking Data.$808K
Sep 2024Federal contractNASA · Csda Program: Capella Evaluation Task$287K
Sep 2024Federal contractDefense · Synthetic Aperture RADAR For Government Operations (sargo)$10M
Jul 2024Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Synthetic Aperture RADAR For Government Operations (sargo)$10M
Jun 2024Federal contractDefense · Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III Purchase Of Twelve Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar) Images For The Contingency Location Operations Rehearsal (clor) Exercise In Support Of Acc A3/A35X.$49K
Dec 2019Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 4th filing$29.4M
Apr 2019Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$13.7M
Sep 2018Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$18.8M
May 2017Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$14.9M

Show 14 earlier federal awards

Oct 2023Federal contractNASA · Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (csda) Program, Multiple Award Idiq Contract - Delivery Of Metadata For Archive$500
Jun 2023Federal contractNASA · Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (csda) Program - High Resolution Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar) Imagery Data Products At The Usg Eula Level For Evaluation.$1.5M
Apr 2023Federal contractNASA · TASKING-STRIP-1DAY-SCENE$65K
Sep 2022Federal grantDefense · Phase I · U.S. Commercial SAR Scatterometry for OSVW and TCI Data Collection$250K
Jul 2022Federal contractDefense · Advanced Battle Management System$2K
Jan 2022Federal contractNASA · Ot : Imagery : 4200788551$10K
Dec 2021Federal contractEnvironmental Prot · Specialized Satellite Imagery Data For Sar Mapping Of Urban Floods (see Quote: Q-00348)$13K
Aug 2021Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Integrated Space & Airborne ISR$1.7M
Jun 2021Federal contractDefense · Capella Space Corporation U.S. Commercial Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar) Optical Inter-satellite Link (oisl) To Sda Tranche 0 Transport Layer Demo.$3M
Apr 2021Federal contractDefense · Integrated Space And Air Surveillance Architecture Using U.S. Commercial Space Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar)$50K
Nov 2019Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need$753K
Nov 2019Federal contractDefense · Data Tool$700K
Aug 2019Federal contractDefense · Innovative Defense-related Dual-purpose Technologies/solutions$50K
Aug 2019Federal contractInterior · Rapid Space Capability, Synthetic Aperture RADAR, Launch, Air Launch, Small Satellite, Strategic Reserve$49K

Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.

Standing among 89 peers

Line = median

Aerospace · Satellite · System

Federal grants#14 · top 16%

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Founders and team

From SEC Form D filings

Chris BoshuizenDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Nabeel HyattDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Payam BanazadehExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
William WoodsDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Will WoodsExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings

What it has protected

No granted patents are on record.

USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.

Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026

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Regulatory activity · Aerospace

Sector-level, not company-level

06 Jul 2026Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of NASA-Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964National Aeronautics and Space Administration
01 Jul 2026Special Conditions: AMAC Aerospace, The Boeing Company Model 747- 8 Airplane; Side-Facing SeatsFederal Aviation Administration
26 Jun 2026Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures; Miscellaneous AmendmentsFederal Aviation Administration
23 Jun 2026Operating Limitations at John F. Kennedy International AirportFederal Aviation Administration
23 Jun 2026Operating Limitations at New York LaGuardia AirportFederal Aviation Administration
18 Jun 2026Special Conditions: Honeywell Aerospace US LLC, Dassault Aviation Model Falcon 900EX Airplane; Electronic System Security Protection From Unauthorized External AccessFederal Aviation Administration

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Sources

Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.

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Data freshness

SEC Form D filings through Oct 23, 2026. SBIR and STTR awards through Oct 21, 2026.