Capella's third-generation synthetic aperture radar satellite, Acadia, is designed to obtain higher-resolution images with an improved signal-to-noise ratio compared with Capella's Whitney satellites.

The co-founder of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging company Capella Space is stepping down as chief executive as the company seeks to grow its business, particularly with government customers.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...