Your payload in Very Low Earth Orbits

LEARN HOW YOUR PAYLOAD CAN OPERATE FROM VLEO

BENEFITS OF VLEO

01

LOW-COST

  • low cosmic radiation in VLEOs enables the use of commercial off-the-shelf components
  • small satellites are more cost-efficient to launch and operate

02

PERFORMANCE

  • shifting from LEO to VLEO results in significant improvements in the resolution of Earth observation data, signal-to-noise ratio (STNR), latency, and transmission rates
  • for example a 4x better STNR for optical earth observation, a 16x better STNR for SAR applications, double the resolution for earth observation, and half the latency time for communication can be achieved

03

CLEAN

  • there is no danger of space debris
  • after its lifetime, Captis satellites will disintegrate in the earth’s atmosphere

04

RESPONSIVE

  • available commercial-off-the-shelf components, small satellites, and high agility predestine VLEO CubeSats for responsive use
  • the system is based on the CubeSat standard, which enables versatile applications
  • widely available rideshare-launches enables short from-earth-to-orbit times

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What is captis

Hi! We are Captis Space Systems, a small team of young engineers with the vision to bring a piece of Dresden’s engineering art into space. Space has become an invisible but indispensable part of our everyday life. Just as invisible, however, is the space debris that poses a constant threat to our space infrastructure. Striving for a sustainable solution, we have set ourselves the goal of designing CubeSats for Very Low Earth Orbit, a previously unused orbit.
Our satellite is therefore not a normal spacecraft, but enables a variety of new applications, limited only by your own imagination.

Who is captis

Ulrich Brinker

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Valentin Petzold

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Max Trenkner

ELECTRONICS DEVELOPMENT

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