The Latest Status of Our First Demonstration Satellite of the Commercial Small Synthetic Aperture Radar After the Launch

The demand for SAR - Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites that can observe a target area through clouds and during nighttime - is emerging, particularly in Asia, where frequent cloud cover inhibits the satellite monitoring capabilities of optical sensors. Our goal is to build a constellation of small SAR satellites to achieve short-term revisits (less than one day), to make the best use of SAR sensors that can acquire data regardless of weather or time of day. We expect that the development of this constellation will expand the scope of SAR data to business and private decision making, and develop a market for commercial use. We have launched our first demonstrative satellite - StriX-
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- at the end of 2020, are already preparing to build our second satellite, and will go on to make a six-satellite constellation by 2022. Our ultimate goal is to build a constellation - StriX - consisting of 30 satellites. The name StriX was given based on the scientific name for the genus of owls - an allusion to its ability to ‘see’.