The seven-year SEQUOIA contract was awarded in September 2023.
The SEQUOIA contract allows the NGA, Defense Department, and broader intelligence community to use Enabled Intelligence's computer vision algorithms to automate tasks such as object detection, tracking, and classification.
Sequoia’s Spotlight mode is designed to dwell over a location for 20 to 60 seconds.
Sequoia is a 100-kilogram radar satellite developed by Capella Space.
Capella Space successfully relayed data on 2020-11-23 between its on-ground operations center and its Sequoia synthetic aperture radar satellite in low Earth orbit.
The first commercial demonstration of an Inter-Satellite Data Relay System was conducted on 2020-11-12 when tasking orders were sent to Sequoia through the Inmarsat-4 L-band constellation in geostationary orbit.
Inmarsat and Addvalue Innovation relayed data on 2020-11-23 between Capella Space’s operations center on the ground and Capella Space’s Sequoia synthetic aperture radar satellite in low Earth orbit.
Capella Space conducted the first commercial demonstration of the IDRS service on 2020-11-12 by sending tasking orders to its Sequoia satellite through the Inmarsat-4 L-band constellation in geostationary orbit.
Sequoia is the first of 36 Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites that Capella Space plans to deploy into a constellation.
Capella Space unveiled images from the Sequoia satellite on 2023-10-06.
Sequoia, Capella Space’s first operational satellite, launched on 2023-08-30 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.
Capella Space launched Sequoia, its first operational synthetic aperture radar satellite, on 2020-08-30 on a Rocket Lab Electron.
First Light was launched as the kick stage of an Electron mission that placed Capella Space’s Sequoia radar imaging satellite into orbit on 2020-08-30.
Sequoia is designed to produce synthetic aperture radar imagery with a resolution as sharp as 0.5 m.
Sequoia is a 100-kilogram-class synthetic aperture radar satellite that follows Capella Space’s demonstration satellite Denali launched in late 2018.
Capella Space previously planned to launch Sequoia as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 launch of Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B in March 2020.
Electron deployed the Sequoia radar imaging satellite about an hour after liftoff into a 500-kilometer orbit at a 45-degree inclination.
Capella Space’s Sequoia satellite was scheduled to launch no earlier than 2020-08-30 at 11:05 p.m. from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand launchpad.
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.
Capella Space delayed commencement of service by eight months to complete and validate Sequoia’s evolved design.