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Capella Space is a San Francisco-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operator that manufactures and flies its own high-resolution X-band imaging spacecraft. Founded in 2016, the company was acquired by trapped-ion quantum computing leader IonQ in July 2025 to become the space backbone of IonQ's quantum communications and analytics push.
Capella's constellation captures sub-meter resolution SAR imagery on demand for defense, intelligence, insurance and disaster-response customers. Under IonQ, the platform is now also being used as a source of real-world radar data for quantum machine-learning research including change detection with quantum generative models.