Capella Space
Capella Space operates a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and provides on-demand, high-resolution Earth-observation imagery through a self-service Console and public API. Customers can task the constellation with 15-minute scheduling cycles, search a STAC-based catalog of archive collects, place orders, and download imagery products for defense, intelligence, maritime, energy, insurance, and analytics use cases.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Capella Space the way a machine reads it — 31 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Capella Space scores 46.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Capella Space
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Capella Space. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Capella Space Tasking API
The Capella Tasking API lets customers submit imagery tasking requests against the Capella SAR constellation, configure collect parameters (geometry, resolution, polarization, l...
Capella Space Catalog API
The Capella Catalog API is a STAC-compliant search interface over the archive of SAR collects. Clients query the catalog by geometry, time, product type, resolution, and polariz...
Capella Space Orders API
The Capella Orders API submits and tracks orders for SAR products, manages order lifecycle, and returns signed download URLs for completed imagery via endpoints such as GET /ord...
Capella Space Collects API
The Collects API from Capella Space — 1 operation(s) for collects.
Capella Space Keys API
The Keys API from Capella Space — 1 operation(s) for keys.
Capella Space Orders API
The Orders API from Capella Space — 3 operation(s) for orders.
Capella Space RepeatRequests API
The RepeatRequests API from Capella Space — 4 operation(s) for repeatrequests.
Capella Space Tasking API
The Tasking API from Capella Space — 4 operation(s) for tasking.
Capella Space Tiles API
The Tiles API from Capella Space — 1 operation(s) for tiles.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Capella Space API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Capella Space Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Capella Space Finops
FINOPSFeatures 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
On-Demand SAR Tasking
Self-service tasking of the SAR constellation with 15-minute scheduling cycles and multiple collection tiers.
STAC Catalog
Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) compliant search interface for discovering archive collects.
Orders and Downloads
Order management API for placing, tracking, and downloading SAR imagery products.
All-Weather, Day-Night Imaging
SAR sensors collect through clouds and at night, providing reliable revisit for monitoring use cases.
Sub-0.5m Resolution Products
Spotlight, stripmap, and sliding-spotlight products with sub-meter resolution options.
Vessel Classification Analytics
Analytics products built on top of SAR collects for maritime domain awareness.
AWS Open Data
Subset of Capella imagery is available via the AWS Open Data registry.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Defense and Intelligence
Persistent monitoring of areas of interest for defense and intelligence customers.
Maritime Domain Awareness
Vessel detection, classification, and dark-ship monitoring.
Energy Infrastructure
Monitoring of pipelines, refineries, and energy assets through cloud and darkness.
Disaster Response
Rapid imagery tasking and delivery for floods, earthquakes, and wildfires.
Insurance and Claims
Pre- and post-event imagery for insurance underwriting and claims adjudication.
Integrations 3
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
AWS
Capella distributes imagery via AWS infrastructure and contributes to the AWS Open Data program.
Esri ArcGIS
Capella imagery is available through Esri's geospatial ecosystem.
STAC Ecosystem
Catalog conforms to the STAC specification, integrating with broader STAC tooling.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Capella Space — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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