Kapta Space builds metasurface-based spaceborne radar payloads that give U.S. defense and intelligence missions persistent moving-target tracking at lower cost.
Space-based radar must hold custody of moving targets, yet conventional payloads are costly, power-hungry, and slow to build. Kapta Space supplies U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and their satellite mission partners with software-defined radar payloads built on its Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array. The modular design steers beams electronically for wide field-of-regard surveillance and tracking.
Unlike the large AESA payloads built by defense primes, these metasurface arrays cut cost, power, and manufacturing complexity while keeping rapid beam steering. They also differ from SAR satellite operators such as Capella Space, which sell imagery from their own spacecraft rather than supplying payloads to others. Kapta positions itself as a payload provider scaling affordable radar for constellation-scale intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and tracking.
