Argentina’s space agency CONAE delayed the 2020-03-30 launch of its SAOCOM 1B satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 because COVID-19 restrictions raised questions about the agency’s ability to support the launch and on-orbit commissioning.
Capella's first operational satellite, Sequoia, is scheduled to launch into sun-synchronous orbit in late March alongside Saocom 1B on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
The first use of the Florida polar trajectory was expected in about a month when a Falcon 9 would launch Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B radar imaging satellite from SLC-40 on 2020-03-30.
Sequoia, Capella Space’s first operational satellite, is scheduled to launch in late March on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket alongside Argentina’s Saocom-1B synthetic aperture radar satellite.