Earth observation from 525 km
Every placeon Earth.Every day.
Apogee Orbital flies 48 satellites that photograph any place on the planet at 50 cm, up to 12 times a day. Choose a place and watch one get there.
48 satellites · 3 planes · 525 km sun-synchronous
Drag to turn the globe. Select a satellite for its telemetry. Arrow keys turn the globe when it has focus.
Telemetry
-----PLANE -
- Altitude
- ---.-- km
- Velocity
- -.--- km/s
- Ground
- -.--- km/s
- Latitude
- --.----° -
- Longitude
- ---.----° -
- Next pass
- ---T−--:--:--
Sim clock ×60
---------- --:--:-- UTC
02Tasking
Point at a place. Get a picture.
Pick a site, or click anywhere on the globe. The scheduler assigns the first satellite that will pass over it in daylight, leans it toward the target, and sends the capture down. The clock runs fast here, so hours of waiting take seconds.
Preset sites
Or click any point on the globe.
Sim ×60 · --- UTC
Arrow keys turn the globe. Enter tasks the point under the crosshair.
Status
Select a site to task a satellite.
- TargetWaiting
- Assigned---
- Next pass--:--:--
- Imaging---
- Delivered---
Daylight passes, next 24 h
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03Who uses it
For the people who have to know first.
0125.80° N 080.13° W
Insurance
Claims teams see which blocks took the storm surge the morning after landfall, before an adjuster can reach the coast.
0247.02° N 004.82° E
Agriculture
Growers find the vineyard block under water stress in the infrared a week before the leaves show it.
0351.96° N 004.03° E
Maritime
Port operators count ships at berth and container stacks every day instead of every quarter.
0410.18° N 106.42° E
Disaster response
Relief teams map which villages the floodwater has cut off within 90 minutes of the pass.
Working with teams at
04The constellation
From the fairing to first light.
Every satellite takes the same path into service. Scroll to follow one from the launch pad to its first picture.
01 · Launch
A rideshare climbs to a 525 km sun-synchronous orbit, so every pass over a place happens at the same local time.
02 · Deployment
03 · Commissioning
04 · First light
- Mission
- T+00:00:00
- Altitude
- 000.0 km
- Velocity
- 0.36 km/s
- [ OK ] Liftoff
- [ ] Max-Q
- [ ] Stage separation
- [ ] Fairing separation
- [ ] Orbit insertion
01 · LaunchT+00:02:09 · 239 km
A rideshare climbs to a 525 km sun-synchronous orbit, so every pass over a place happens at the same local time.
02 · DeploymentT+00:33:57 · 525 km
The fairing opens and the dispenser releases satellites ten seconds apart; they drift into their slots along the plane.
03 · CommissioningDay 01 · 525 km
Solar arrays unfold, the star tracker locks, and the telescope is focused during three weeks of checkout.
04 · First lightDay 21 · 525 km
The first image comes down on the next pass over Toulouse. From then on the satellite joins the daily schedule.
- Satellites in orbit
- 48
- Resolution
- 50cm
- Revisits a day
- 12
- Capture to delivery
- <90min
05Missions
Next launch
AO-6
T−--d --:--:--
- Date
- 09:42 UTC
- Site
- Andøya, Norway
- Vehicle
- Halyard dedicated
- Payload
- 8 satellites
Eight in-orbit spares, parked 20 km below planes A and B, so a failed satellite is replaced in weeks instead of a launch cycle.
06Samples
Request sample imagery
Tell us where you work. We will send a recent 50 cm capture of your area, with all eight bands, within two business days.
- Cloud-optimized GeoTIFF and a PNG preview
- True color, false color, and a vegetation index
- No account, no card, no follow-up sequence