1. Capella Space
We are providing low-cost SAR imagery satellite constellation with a high revisit rate.
Payam Banazadeh
Aerospace/Business
Timon Ruban
Machine Learning
Isaac Matthews
Aerospace
Jose Ignacio del Villar
Business
# interviews
this week:
6 users
0 buyers
4 experts
# total
interviews:
60
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5. USCG SAR Mission Archetype
Command
Duty Officer
Law
Enforcement
Duty Officer
Intelligence
Analyst
Watch Officer
SAR Duty
Officer
SAR
Mission
Commander
Emergency
Notification RFI
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6. Experiment #1 - Understanding the scope of USCG’s problem
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
There is a major economic need for the USCG to adopt more detailed reconnaissance
systems
Visited the USCG’s 11th district command center in Alameda, and talked to many
other members of the USCG
Through our conversations it did not seem clear to us that providing more detailed
reconnaissance systems to the USCG is a pressing need for them. Even though they
might benefit from having that system, the economic gains are not perceived to be
large enough to support our thesis.
We will try to keep in contact with the USCG to dig deeper on the problems they
have, but we won’t make it our priority.
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7. Back-of-the-
envelope
calculationS&R (Search and Rescue)
cases in District 11:
17 000
Potential cases with
insufficient intelligence:
350
Cases that lead to assets
being deployed:
75
Typical duration of
deployment:
6-8 hours
Cost of asset (helicopter +
crew) per hour:
$10,000
Costs per year:
75 * 8 * $10,000 =
$6,000,000
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8. Experiment #2 - Exploring commercial double-use for Port Authorities
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
Using satellite imagery to monitor waterborne traffic can add value to the Port
Authorities
Cold-called Wharfingers and Pilot Stations at the Port of Oakland and Port of Los
Angeles/Long Beach
There seems to be no gap in capability as far as monitoring ship traffic in ports is
concerned.
They use AIS (Automatic Identification System) to keep track of all ships entering
ports. Ships that purposefully turn off AIS are not a problem.
Ports don’t need much satellite imagery to provide security and management. Ports
are important because you can estimate economic activities
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9. Experiment #3- NGA wants raw data
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
NGA would prefer to have raw data in order to aggregate with other sources
Talked to 2 NGA contacts (need more). One researches and another dev lead
Depending on who you talk you will get a different answer. NGA is going to the
direction of NOT wanting raw images and want processed analytics (object
classification, etc)
We need more data points and more NGA contacts
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10. What were our biggest hypothesis ?
People care about getting hourly images
What “events” can happen within an hour or less?
Cars move
Ships move
Construction doesn’t happen that fast
Disaster doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s important to get intelligence ASAP
Which one of these customers have a big enough problem (in terms of $$$) to cover cost of
launching 40 satellites ($150M)
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11. Areas of focus:
Commercial focus:
Patterns of life
Oil/Gas
Mining
Disaster relief
Maritime Domain Awareness?
City planning?
Agriculture?
Construction?
DOD focus:
NGA
Coast Guard - Maritime Domain
Awareness?
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12. • Deploy 1 to 3 satellites
and sell the images by
September 2017.
• Finish the deployment
of 40 satellites by
2020.
• Construction of
payload for testing
• Development of image
analysis algorithms
• Construction of
satellite under
required constraints
• Data Analytics
providers (Orbital
Insight, Omni Earth,
etc)
• Sponsors (military and
commercial)
• Satellite structure
providers
• Satellite component
providers
• Orbital
communication
providers
• Satellite launch
providers
• Get a customer in a country in the Equatorial orbit
(Government)
• Get commercial customers interested enough in our tech
• The DHS and other government departments adopt our
technology:
• - USCG: to thwart drug trafficking from Ecuador and Colombia
• Summer ground demonstration: $50k
• First satellite: $6 million (including operations)
• Subsequent satellites: $3 million each
• Final constellation: $150 million total over 3 years
• Funding to perform
payload test during
Summer 2016
• Government advocacy
for our technology:
DHS
• Contacts in the
Equatorial countries’
government agencies.
Beneficiaries
Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Commercial
Satellite imagery resellers
Illegal fishing in Indonesia
Oil tankering in Nigeria
Stop pirating at sea in
Somalia
Key Partners
USCG
Law Enforcement DO
Information Watch Officer
USCG
- Stop more boats carrying
drugs from
Ecuador/Colombia
- Reduce the cost of drug
intervention operations
NGA
Provide better intelligence
to other agencies/services
Commercial
Satellite Imagery Resellers:
they can offer better and
more diverse products
Illegal fishing: tracking of
ships that are doing
suspicious activities at sea.
Better law enforcement.
NGA
Intelligence Analysts
Services in the DoD??
SOCOM
Government sector driving
demand (Indonesia, Nigeria,
Ecuador, Colombia)
Coast Guard Deputy
Commandant for
Operations (CG-DCO)
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13. Products
& Services
Run counter-drug
Operations
Catch “bad guys on
boats”
Customer
Jobs
- “The sea is vast”
-Low budget (=> cannot
deploy to many resources)
-Hard to know where to
look/patrol
Gains
Pains
Gain
Creators
Pain
Relievers
-Information on where boats are
in patrol area lets duty officers
deploy assets more
strategically and more
efficiently
-High revisit rate enables duty
officers to see smugglers even
on quick runs (3-5h)
- Stop more boats carrying drugs
from Ecuador/Colombia
- Reduce the cost of drug
intervention operations
Value Proposition Canvas - USCG Law Enforcement DO
-provide locations of
boats without AIS in
desired area (extracted
from SAR images)
-web-based UI
-modern machine
learning/computer vision
techniques can scan many
images for boats and cover
vast areas
-locations of boats without
AIS can queue where to
send patrol vessels/aircrafts
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14. Products
& Services
Deliver geospatial
intelligence to,
warfighters, intelligence
professionals and first
responders
Customer
Jobs
- Insufficient
knowledge (images)
of areas interesting for
DoD services
- Over-tasking of analysts
- Backlog of un-extruded
data
Gains
Pains
Gain
Creators
Pain
Relievers
- Global Coverage
- On-Demand SAR images
made possible by a high
revisit rate
- Data conditioning
alleviates analyst
tasking
- Extrusions may align
with current tagging
practices
-Receive high-resolution imagery
from arbitrary places on-demand
to make it easy to deliver insight
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Value Proposition Canvas - NGA
-radar satellites
-high-resolution
SAR and InSAR
images
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15. Products
& Services
-Efficient exploration and
production and delivery
of fossil fuels
Customer
Jobs
-Temporal and spatial resolution
not sufficient
-high cost while oil is cheap
Gains
Pains
Gain
Creators
Pain
Relievers
-Inform oil production per well
-Predict future surface changes based
on historical data
-Detect oil spills before they become a
huge problem
-Reduce maintenance cost of
tiltmeters
-Reduce manpower needed to
maintain tiltmeters
-Able to provide long term
predictions/analysis
-Precise surface deformation
analysis to estimate well
productivity
-Efficient resource allocation
directly to trouble spots
(oil spills)
Value Proposition Canvas - Commercial - Hedge Fund
Investors, Oil/Mining, Agriculture
-radar satellites
-image analysis
software
-web-based UI
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