Example missions
Each mission opens in the workstation with its analyses, plots, report and saved views, from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.
- Moon
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
LRO about the Moon, its passes over the IM-1 landing site and the DSN’s view of it.
- Moon
- 24 Feb 2024, 1 day
- 1 spacecraft
- 3 stations
- 29 checks
- Sun
Cruise to Mars
The 2026 Earth-to-Mars opportunity about the Sun, beside a Hohmann transfer.
- Sun
- 30 Oct 2026, 293 days
- 2 spacecraft
- 33 checks
- Earth
LEO downlink
An imaging satellite’s X-band downlink to Svalbard and Wallops, with adaptive coding and modulation set against one fixed rate.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 1 spacecraft
- 2 stations
- 35 checks
- Earth
Walker coverage
A 24-satellite Walker constellation and its coverage, gaps and revisit over a day.
- Earth
- 5 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 24 spacecraft
- 43 checks
- Earth
Ground contacts
A day of ISS passes over three Deep Space Network antennas, each pass checked by brute force.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 2 spacecraft
- 3 stations
- 44 checks
- Earth
Sun-synchronous imaging
A Sentinel-2 orbit over its 10-day repeat cycle, imaging six calibration sites in daylight.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 10 days
- 1 spacecraft
- 15 checks
- Earth
Orbit raising
A transfer from a 300 km parking orbit to geostationary orbit, with both burns solved by targeting.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 1 spacecraft
- 6 checks
- Earth
GEO station-keeping
Two satellites sharing one slot through the equinox eclipse season, with east and west burns.
- Earth
- 28 Aug 2026, 51 days
- 2 spacecraft
- 22 checks
- Earth
Rendezvous
An inspector on a safety ellipse and a phasing deputy, seen from the chief.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 6 spacecraft
- 21 checks
- Earth
Relay operations
A relay satellite, a geostationary relay, three stations, an imager and a burn in one day.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 3 spacecraft
- 3 stations
- 65 checks
- Earth
Ephemeris interchange
Trajectories written as CCSDS OEM, STK .e and SPICE files, read back and compared.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 8 spacecraft
- 36 checks
- Earth
Quickstart
One sun-synchronous satellite and NASA’s Svalbard antenna: contacts, lighting, a plot and a report.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 1 spacecraft
- 1 station
- 20 checks
- Earth
Altitude trade study
A Python script sweeps an orbit from 400 to 2,000 km and writes a CSV and a plot.
- Earth
- 5 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 1 spacecraft
- 1 station
- 19 checks
- Earth
LEO operations
Landsat 9 and the ISS among 19,369 catalogued objects, with 12 ground stations and close-approach screening.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 3 days
- 19,369 catalogued objects
- 2 spacecraft
- 12 stations
- 22 checks
- Earth
Starlink population
11,100 Starlink satellites as one catalog, with its shells and one member promoted to a spacecraft.
- Earth
- 14 Oct 2026, 1 day
- 11,100 catalogued objects
- 2 spacecraft
- 1 station
- 27 checks
