Satellite imagery provider and technology company Capella Space on Tuesday said it has stood up a new subsidiary, Capella Federal, to better serve the federal government, in particular the classified space as demand surges for commercial satellite remote sensing imagery and data. Capella Federal will be led Eric Traupe, who retired in 2022 from the CIA after…

Capella Space on Tuesday said it has raised more than $60 million in new funding it will put toward new expanding its next-generation of radar satellites and new data products as customer demand for satellite Earth imaging continues to grow. The funding round comes from the U.S Innovative Technology Fund and follows a $97 million Series C financing…

L3Harris Technologies on Tuesday closed its $2 billion acquisition of Viasat’s Tactical Data Links (TDL) product line, strengthening its focus on the Defense Department’s efforts to link its systems and sensors into single network. The TDL acquisition was announced in October and had been expected to close months from now, but U.S. and allied partner regulators…

L3Harris Technologies on Tuesday said it has received all U.S. and international regulatory approvals for its pending acquisition of the tactical data link product line from Viasat, with the deal now expected to close by Jan. 3, 2023, months earlier than expected. When L3Harris announced it would acquire the Link 16 network in October for nearly…