Constellations

File name Constellations.xml
# Date Notes
127 16/08/2024 Added G60-Quianfan constellation
126 09/06/2024 Removed FOSSASAT constellation because all decayed
125 02/12/2023 Added new O3B satellites after launch 2023-175
124 05/11/2023

Added new FOSSASAT satellites from launch 2023-084 and removed others that have decayed.

123 16/10/2023 Added KUIPER constellation
122 05/06/2023 Added TROPICS constellation
121 27/04/2023

Added GHGSAT constellation

Several updates to ONEWEB, SPACEBEE,

120 14/12/2022 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch 2022-166
119 07/12/2022 Added new constellation ASTROCAST
118 27/10/2022 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch 2022-138
117 04/09/2022 Added new FOSSASAT satellites from launch 2022-057
116 05/09/2022 Removed STARLINK constellation, and moved to a new STARLINK scenario
115 25/08/2022 Added new STARLINK satellites following launches up to 2022-099
114 25/06/2022

Added new STARLINK satellites after launch 2022-062

Added new FOSSASAT satellites after launch 2022-057

Added new GLOBALSTAR FM15 satellite after launch 2022-064

113 11/06/2022 Added new SPIRE satellites after their recent launch 2022-057
112 26/05/2022 Added new STARLINK satellites following launch 2022-053
111 21/05/2022 Added new STARLINK satellites following launch 2022-052
110 20/05/2022 Added new STARLINK satellites following launch 2022-051
109 19/05/2022

Removed AURORA INSIGHT, HAWKEYE, NINGXIA and YAOGAN constellations and put in the new SigInt satellites scenario.

Added new STARLINK satellites following launch 2022-049

Removed PLANET FLOCK some decayed satellites

108 05/05/2022 Added new STARLINK satellites following launch 2022-045
107 14/04/2022 Added new HAWKEYE, SPACEBEE and NUSAT satellites after their recent launch
106 12/04/2022

Added MERIDIAN constellation

Added new SPACEBEE and STARLINK satellites

105 11/03/2022 Modified PLANET FLOCK constellation to have yaw steering and a minimum scene duration of 3 seconds
104 25/02/2022 Added FOSSASAT satellites after their launch 2022-002
103 16/02/2022 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch 2022-012
102 01/02/2022 Added new PLANET flock and SPIRE satellites following launch 2022-002
101 21/01/2022 Added new PLANET flock satellites following launch 2022-002
100 20/01/2022 Added Aurora Insight constellation with 3 satellites: ALPHA, BRAVO and CHARLIE
99 13/01/2022 Added new ONEWEB and STARLINK satellites after recent launches
98 19/11/2021

Updated METOP-A orbit

Added new STARLINK satellites

97 17/10/2021 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch
96 22/09/2021 Added new STARLINK satellites
95 18/09/2021 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch
94 26/08/2021 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch
93 09/07/2021 Added new ONEWEB, STARLINK AND SPACEBEE satellites after their recent launch
92 31/05/2021 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch
91 20/05/2021 Added new LEMUR (SPIRE) and STARLINK satellites after their recent launch
90 13/05/2021 Added new YAOGAN-30 and STARLINK satellites after their recent launch
89 28/04/2021 Added new ONEWEB and STARLINK satellites after their recent launch
88 01/04/2021 Added STARLINK, PLANET, ONEWEB, YAOGAN and SPACEBEE new satellites after recent launches
87 08/02/2021 Added new SPIRE, FLOCK, HAWK, SPACEBEE and YAOGAN satellites after their recent launch
86 04/02/2021

Added new SPIRE and STARLINK satellites after their recent launch

Added YAOGAN constellations, presumably for SIGINT

85 23/12/2020 Modified PLANET flock sensors to include PS-1, PS-2 and Super Dove PS sensors according to each different satellite
84 21/12/2020 Added new ONEWEB satellites after their recent launch
83 18/12/2020 Added GONETS 20, 21 and 22 after their recent launch
82 04/12/2020

Added NUSAT constellation

Added new STARLINK satellites to STARLINK constellation after their recent launch

81 05/11/2020

Added new FLOCK satellites to PLANET constellation after their recent launch

Added new STARLINK satellites to STARLINK constellation after their recent launch

80 28/09/2020

Added new SPIRE after their recent launch

79 21/09/2020 Added GONETS constellation
77 27/08/2020 Added SKYSAT constellation
76 26/08/2020 Added new STARLINK satellites
75 18/08/2020 Added new STARLINK satellites
74 19/06/2020 Added new STARLINK satellites
73 15/06/2020 Added new STARLINK satellites
72 12/05/2020

Added new STARLINK satellites

Added 3D Models of STARLINK and ONEWEB

71 02/04/2020 Added new STARLINK and ONEWEB satellites
70 11/02/2020

Added new constellations HAWKEYE, NINGXIA-1, RBSP.

Update of STARLINK, SPIRE constellations.

69 30/12/2019 Added new LEMUR satellites to the SPIRE constellation
68 16/12/2019

Updated METOP-A orbit as Sun Synchronous

Updated METOP-C orbit as not Sun Synchronous

67 07/12/2019 Added new FLOCK satellites after their recent launch
65 18/11/2019 Added new 60 Starlink satellites after their recent launch
64 01/07/2019

Added 3D Model GOES 8

63 01/06/2019 Added Starlink constellation
62 08/04/2019 Added new PLANET and O3B satellites
61 26/03/2019

Added OneWeb constellation

Added O3B constellation

General update of other constellations

60 07/05/2018 Updated PLANET Flock satellites
59 26/02/2018 Added new PLANET and SPIRE satellites
58 04/12/2017

Scenario has been updated to remove Navigation satellites to a new Navigation scenario, and many other optical satellites have been removed because available in the Optical satellites scenario.

57 07/09/2017

SPIRE constellation has been updated after launch of several LEMUR satellites.

FLOCK satellites have been updated

56 02/08/2017

SPIRE constellation has been updated after launch of several LEMUR satellites and decay of one of them.

MOLNIYA 3-51 removed due to decay

FLOCK 2E-8 removed due to decay

Added FLOCK 2K satellties recently launched

55 18/04/2017 Added SPIRE satellites LEMUR-2-JOEL and LEMUR-2-TACHIKOMA
54 10/04/2017

Cosmo-Skymed satellites attitude has been updated to implement minimum time between consecutive acquisitions with different slew side, right or left. The transition time from one slew side to another has been set to 6 minutes.

SPIRE satellites removed due to decay: LEMUR-2 KANE and LEMUR-2 NICK-ALLAIN

53 15/03/2017

Added new LEMUR satellites to SPIRE constellation.

Removed three LEMUR satellites due to decay

Added FLOCK-3 satellites after their recent launch

52 2/12/2016

Added new LEMUR satellites to SPIRE constellation, LEMUR 2 WINGO, LEMUR 2 ANUBHAVTHAKUR, LEMUR 2 SOKOLSKY and LEMUR 2 XIAOQING

Added GOES-R

51 18/09/2016 Added new PLANETLABS FLOCK satellites
50 11/07/2016 EROS A1 removed due to decay on 7/7/2016
49 02/07/2016 Added new PLANETLABS FLOCK and BEIDOU satellites
48 20/06/2016

Added SPIRE satellites (LEMUR series) to S-AIS constellations.

Added new PLANETLABS FLOCK satellites

47 12/02/2016 DMC-3 orbits have been updated to have start and stop numbering at their north crossing instead of at ANX
46 19/10/2015 FLOCK constellation updated to include FLOCK-2 satellites
45 27/08/2015 FLOCK-1 constellation updated
44 14/07/2015 DMC-3 constellation satellites orbits updated to account for recent launch
43 17/06/2015 Cosmo Skymed satellite orbits have been reconfigured with MLST drift = -0.15 seconds per day
42 16/06/2015 Cosmo Skymed satellites have been reconfigured with PERPENDICULAR Z-Pointing attitude, instead of CENTRAL.
41 05/05/2015 Polarization parameters have been added to several SAR sensors.
40 25/03/2015

Removed FLOCK 1B-2 and FLOCK 1B-24 due to decay

Added DMC-3 constellation satellites

39 17/03/2015 Removed FLOCK 1B-8, FLOCK 1B-17 and FLOCK 1B-23 due to decay
38 10/03/2015 Added new FLOCK satellites
37 03/03/2015

Added Flock-1B-27 and FLOCK-1B-28. Removed FLOCK-1B-25 due to decay.

Cosmo Skymed satellites have been reconfigured with Total Zero Doppler steering via pitch steering

36 06/02/2015 Removed FLOCK-1B-7, FLOCK-1B-15 and FLOCK-1B-18 due to decay
35 09/01/2015 Removed FLOCK-1B-1, FLOCK-1B-16 and FLOCK-1B-26 due to decay
34 11/11/2014 RapidEye constellation sensor geometry adjusted after receiving remarks from satellite operator.
33 10/11/2014 Removed additional FLOCKs due to decay.
32 28/10/2014 Added BeiDou constellation
31 21/10/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-20 due to decay
30 12/9/2014 Added Flock-1B 16 and 17
29 01/09/2014 Added new Flock-1B series satellites after recent launch
28 23/7/2014 TLE update web address has been updated with a Taitus alias, friendlier to some firewall settings
27 27/6/2014

Removed additional satellites due to decay.

Added new FLOCK 1C satellites following recent launch (10 new satellites)

26 17/6/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-6, 1-10, 1-11, 1-24 due to decay
25 11/6/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-1 due to decay
24 10/6/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-7, 1-19 and 1-22 due to decay
23 3/6/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-5 and 1-28 due to decay
22 26/5/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-21, 1-8 and 1-2 due to decay
21 23/5/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-15 and 1-17 due to decay
20 19/5/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-3 due to decay on 15th May
19 10/5/2014 Removed FLOCK 1-27 due to decay on 3rd May
18 7/5/2014

Modified TLE source addresses

Update of TLEs

17 31/3/2014

Added FLOCK-1 constellation

Added Skysat candidate constellations, Skysat6 and Skysat24, with 6 and 24 satellites respectively (Constellations scenario)

SWARM constellation updated to account for the recent launch

Update for change in sensor format.

16 20/11/2013

Updated Cosmo-Skymed constellation

15 02/04/2013

Updated Cosmo-Skymed constellation

Updated orbit data and geometry xml format

14 17/10/2012

Globalstar constellation has been updated with additional satellites (M001 to M092)

Updated Meteosat satellites

Updated Molniya satellites

13 06/09/2012

Cosmo Skymed Sensor Modes under ScanSAR (HugeRegion) are renamed from HG-xx to HR-xx

12 26/07/2012

Added Mean Local Solar Time drift parameters to Cosmo-Skymed satellites to stabilize the Sun Synchronous Orbit predictions over long term.

11 30/05/2012

Cosmo-Skymed 1..4 Beams HG-00 and WR-00 are now back to operational (engaged for planning)

10 14/05/2012

Cosmo-Skymed 1..4 ScanSAR (HugeRegion) - Left HG-00 is now disengaged.

9

09/05/2012

Instrument bit rates have been configured on all sensors

8 14/02/2012

Cosmo Skymed: Spotlight mode integration time has been modified from 3.3 seconds to 7.3 seconds to account for actual duration of the spotlight acquisition.

7 14/02/2012

Fixed Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) Medium Resolution Maritime sensor swath width to 350 km width.

Added S-AIS sensor to each the RCM satellite.

6 21/01/2012

Updated GPS, Glonass and Globalstar constellations

5 11/01/2012

Added Pleiades-HR 1 with TLE predictions following recent launch

Updated TLE orbit parameters with latest predictions.

4 28/11/2011

Cosmo-Skymed satellites have now prioritized sensor definitions such that Right looking acquisitions will be preferred over Left looking, reflecting the current CS operational policy.

3 03/11/2011

Cosmo-Skymed satellites SpotLight modes have been configured with the SpotLight constraint configured, activating the new SpotLight handling function (as of SaVoir 4.4.7)

2 20/07/2011

Cosmo-Skymed configuration has been slightly modified to set framing handling with KeepFrameBoundaries = true, Floating Frame = ALIGN AT CENTER. Instrument Beams have been updated so that their names have the same number letters (e.g. H4-01 instead of H4-1).

1 15/07/2011

First release with initial set of constellations.

 

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