What are Capella's collection types?
Explore Capella’s four collection types—Spotlight Ultra, Spotlight, Spotlight Wide, and Stripmap—designed for diverse mission needs.
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° | +/- 35° |