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Capella Space plans to launch Sequoia, its first operational satellite, by the end of 2019.

The first Capella satellite in the 2020 launches, named Sequoia, will launch from Cape Canaveral in March into a polar sun-synchronous orbit on a SpaceX rocket.

Electron deployed the Sequoia radar imaging satellite about an hour after liftoff into a 500-kilometer orbit at a 45-degree inclination.

Sequoia is a 100-kilogram-class synthetic aperture radar satellite that follows Capella Space’s demonstration satellite Denali launched in late 2018.

Sequoia is designed to produce synthetic aperture radar imagery with a resolution as sharp as 0.5 m.

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.

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.

Capella Space launched Sequoia, its first operational synthetic aperture radar satellite, on 2020-08-30 on a Rocket Lab Electron.

Capella Space unveiled images from the Sequoia satellite on 2023-10-06.

Sequoia is the first of 36 Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites that Capella Space plans to deploy into a constellation.