# Kapta Space raises $24 million, saying it secured classified moving target indication contracts Washington Harbour Partners led the Series A. Kapta's announcement named no buyer or value for the contracts. Published 2026-10-10 by TGOs. Canonical: https://tgos.io/news/2026/10/10/kapta-space-raises-24-million-saying-it-secured-classified/ Kapta Space, a Seattle developer of spaceborne radar payloads, announced the $24 million round on Friday, Oct. 9, with Bison Ventures as co-lead.[1] Kapta says the money will help it scale production to support multiple classified moving target indication (MTI) contracts it secured earlier this year.[1] The round brings its total funding to $30 million.[1] The technology it wants to produce has a public research trail. In July 2023, DARPA funded a $1.7 million Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract for a steerable X-band metasurface antenna.[2][3] The award's abstract set out to develop spaceborne radar imaging and MTI sensor technology.[2] USAspending lists the work, which ended in July 2025, as a "Space Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array," matching the name of Kapta's MESA architecture.[1][3] Conventional radar payloads, Kapta says, have been too costly and complex to deploy across large satellite constellations.[1] MESA is designed to deliver advanced radar performance at significantly lower cost, power and manufacturing complexity than traditional active electronically scanned arrays, the company says.[1] Washington Harbour is a Washington, D.C., private investment firm whose investments run from growth equity to control buyouts.[1] Mina Faltas, its founder and chief executive, said the firm believes MESA's combination of performance, cost and scalability will make Kapta "a foundational supplier to the next generation of U.S. and allied space architectures."[1] ## Why it matters Kapta wants to scale production for contracts it says it has secured while its payload still has to be qualified for flight.[1] The milestone to watch is its first orbital demonstration, which Kapta is preparing for but didn't date in the announcement.[1] ## Sources 1. Kapta Space: Kapta Space Raises $24M Series A, Secures Multiple Classified MTI Contracts (Oct. 9, 2026) 2. SBIR.gov: Steerable X-Band Metasurface Antenna for Spaceborne Radar, Kapta Space Corp. (2023) 3. USAspending: Contract FA237723CB002, Space Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array