Capella offers four carefully curated collection type to meet specific mission needs. Each collection type has a predefined set of imaging acquisition parameters, including the collect mode, to provide the optimal performance of the Capella constellation during new tasking requests.
- Spotlight Ultra - Extra fine details like motion and obscured manmade objects.
- Spotlight - Classify objects, detect change, and capture more targets than ever with very high-resolution, high-quality imagery optimized for volume and speed.
- Spotlight Wide - See more than ever with large-area, medium resolution spotlight imager. Monitor vessel movements, discover illegal mining, or track lava flows.
- Stripmap - Get the most coverage over your target area of interest for broader land use monitoring and baseline mapping. Available in three lengths - 20km, 50km, and 100km.
Technical specifications
| Spotlight Ultra | Spotlight | Spotlight Wide | Stripmap | |
| Look Angle | 15° - 50° | |||
| Grazing Angle | 73.5° - 33° | |||
| Scene Size | 5 x 5 | 10 x 20 | 5 - 10 x 20 / 50/ 100 | |
| Slant Range Resolution (m) | 0.25 / 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.75 | |
| Ground Range Resolution (m) | 0.38 to 1.34 | 0.76 x 2.23 | 1.13 x 3.37 | |
| Azimuth Resolution (m) | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 |
| Squint Angle Range | +/- 30° | +/- 0° | ||