IonQ: It captures the movement of the ground with a satellite radar. $IONQ

IonQ: It captures the movement of the ground with a satellite radar. $IONQ

You know IonQ, right?

The company, known for its quantum computing stocks.

The company that I couldn’t buy because I didn’t have money…

The company acquired Capella Space last year.

Capella is a SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite operator.
It’s a company that takes pictures of the Earth with radar.

And this time, IonQ launched a new data service using that satellite.

It’s called InSAR.

Normal satellite images show ‘what this area looks like now’?

InSAR photographs the same location more than once at a time interval, and then analyzes the phase difference of the radar signal to calculate how much the ground has moved.

The precision is in millimeters.

I can’t see it with my eyes, I can’t see it with a drone, but I can see satellite radar

It’s a technology that’s used a lot more than you think

If ground subsidence occurs in energy and mining oil fields, pipelines, and mining sites, there is a risk of infrastructure collapse.

It can be detected early with InSAR.

It is also used to track how much civil engineering, construction bridges, railroads, and buildings lean or sink over time to timing maintenance.

Immediately after the disaster response earthquake, the surface deformation pattern can be quickly mapped to capture the initial signal of volcanic activity

Flood risk can be assessed in advance by tracking the ground subsidence in flood and coastal management low-lying cities.

InSAR technology itself is not new.

However, so far, it has taken time to manually collect data from several satellites and process it by experts.

It should be noted that IonQ has automated this with software and processing technology!

Customers can direct the satellite to the console or API directly and receive the processed data.

I didn’t even develop a new satellite and shoot it.

It’s using Capella’s SAR satellite, which is already in orbit.

It was actually verified in Mexico City in 2025.

I collected 18 radar images for 7 weeks and measured the ground deformation, and I caught a section that subsides more than 70cm per year.

It would have taken months to make this much data set in the old way.

IONQ is simply moving from a quantum company to a space company