Capella Space Corp announced that two of its Acadia satellites, Acadia-4 and Acadia-5 will launch with SpaceX in 2024.
SpaceX will launch Acadia-4 to a 45-degree mid-inclination orbit (MIO) in April 2024 with SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 mission. On the other hand, the Acadia-5 satellite aims to launch before June 2024 to 97-degree sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) during SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission.
The second satellite mission will be accompanied by Exolaunch for mission management and integration services.
“Working with SpaceX to launch our Acadia satellites into a variety of orbits is a huge win for Capella and will enhance our ability to bring greater coverage and higher revisits over key areas of interest across our customer spectrum,” said Frank Backes, CEO of Capella Space.
Source – Capella Space
Capella Space said it is one of the earliest to take advantage of SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare program, which offers missions as low as $275k. However, SpaceX is scheduled to start the rideshare program in April 2024.
Capella Space, known for its data and satellite solutions for government and commercial use, looking to enhance its capability to collect imagery at irregular times with these two satellites.
In addition to SpaceX, Capella confirmed that it will continue to launch satellites into orbit with Rocket Lab.
(source – Capella Space)