Using the SatVu platform, you can task SatVu’s satellite to collect new data for your area of interest. The platform takes care of the whole tasking process for both standard and assured priority tasking products.

• Feasibility checks - check whether the satellite can collect data that satisfies the constraints provided for the Standard priority tasking product and retrieve available passes information for the Assured priority tasking product.
• Price estimation - check the price of the tasking order before placing it.
• Ordering data - submit the order.
• Retrieving order information - track the status of the order.
• Downloading data - data and metadata can be readily integrated into your application and remain available to you in the platform.
• Cancelling order - cancel the order before the satellite collects data.

The whole flow is available via RESTful API and the web app.

Key Concepts

Tasking product represents a set of future data acquisition parameters designed to fulfil different use cases. SatVu platform has two tasking products: Standard priority and Assured priority. Standard priority tasking product focuses on collecting an image with explicitly provided parameters: desired cloud coverage, ground sample distance or off-nadir angle, etc. Assured priority tasking product enables selecting the exact pass of the satellite over the target while other tasking parameters cannot be customised.

Feasibility check is the process of evaluating if the tasking order with provided parameters can be captured. Operating a satellite, we will always have constraints in collecting data globally due to the revisit rate, swath width, etc. Feasibility check enables you to better plan acquisitions since we evaluate the current satellite position, its orbit, weather conditions and other forms of data to inform you if the tasking order will likely be successful.

Tasking order represents a single data acquisition request that will happen in the future. The order defines the tasking parameters but also provides information about the current status of the tasking request.

Order status is a representation of where the tasking order is in its lifecycle. You will see a few intermediate statuses, such as staged or committed, as well as final statuses, such as fulfilled, that indicate that the order has been successfully delivered.