Purpose and architecture
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies engineers deployed the CAPELLA warehouse on a hardened Las Vegas server cluster to support the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. The schema featured tables for electromagnetic spectra, physiological biomarkers, location metadata, and scanned archival documents. PostgreSQL with PostGIS extensions enabled geospatial joins between radar tracks and witness surveys.
Data ingestion pipelines
- Defense Intelligence Agency secure FTP delivered classified missile-warning sensor tracks.
- Customs and Border Protection aerostat feeds streamed through a STANAG 4609 ingest node.
- Medical case files from Kit Green's clinical studies arrived as encrypted PDF attachments parsed into FHIR-compliant tables.
By 2010 CAPELLA stored 12 terabytes across 44 million rows, facilitating machine-learning clustering that identified recurring 0.78 GHz carrier emissions during close approaches.1
Legacy and transfer to government custody
After AAWSAP lapsed, a sanitized subset of CAPELLA migrated onto a Navy SIPRNet enclave to seed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force knowledge graph. Remaining proprietary tables remain under Bigelow custody, though Department of Homeland Security KONA BLUE planners seek access.
References
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BAASS System Design Review Minutes, 2009-11-04. ↩