Radar imagery and data customers in government agencies and companies have complained of delays in transmitting Earth observation tasking orders, making SAR constellations a promising application for IDRS.

At 7:27 PM EST or 00:27 UTC NASA and SpaceX launched the Dragon 2 capsule named Resilience from Cape Kennedy into a successful orbit heading to the ISS later on Monday with three NASA astronauts and one Japanese JAXA astronaut on Sunday 11-15-20.