What information is included in the Mission Awareness CSV?
Explore the access opportunity metadata fields included in Capella’s Mission Awareness CSV to support repeat task planning.
Users can leverage the Mission Awareness tool to understand potential satellite access opportunities for a specific task and plan the cadence of a repeat task. The Mission Awareness tool generates a Comma Separate Value (CSV) file with the list of potential satellite access times and the associated metadata.
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Column Name |
Description |
Unit |
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Center WGS84 |
Point object for the center point of the access opportunity in the WGS84 coordinate system. |
Point |
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Center ECEF |
Point object for the center point of the access opportunity in the Earth-centered, Earth-fixed (ECEF) coordinate system. |
Point |
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Spacecraft ID |
Capella spacecraft set to perform collection. |
Number |
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Access ID |
A unique identifier for a potential satellite access time. |
String |
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Access Request ID |
A unique identifier for the submission to Mission Awareness. |
String |
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Window Open |
Earliest time when acquisition can occur. Image acquisition can begin any time after the Window Open time up to the Window Close time. |
Datetime |
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Window Close |
Latest time when acquisition can occur. Image acquisition can begin any time after the Window Open time up to the Window Close time. |
Datetime |
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Orbital Plane |
The regular, repeating path of the spacecraft around the Earth. Capella spacecrafts are in mid-latitude (47 degrees and 53 degrees) orbits. |
Number |
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Orbit State |
Whether the spacecraft is on the Ascending (South to North) or Descending (North to South) orbit during image acquisition. |
String |
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Look Direction |
Whether the spacecraft is looking Left or right with respect to its velocity vector during image acquisition. |
String |
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Local Mean Time |
Local time at center of access opportunity in astronomical time (seconds). |
Number [Seconds] |
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Az Open |
Counterclockwise angle with respect to the azimuth open in the topocentric geodetic ENZ coordinate system. |
Number |
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Az Close |
Counterclockwise angle with respect to the azimuth close in the topocentric geodetic ENZ coordinate system. |
Number |
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Elev Min |
Minimum angle between the tangent to the surface and the line of sight of the satellite as seen from center point during the access window. |
Number |
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Elev Max |
Maximum angle between the tangent to the surface and the line of sight of the satellite as seen from center point during the access window. |
Number |
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Off-Nadir Min |
Minimum look angle between the spacecraft’s nadir position and the SAR beam in degrees. |
Number [Degrees] |
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Off-Nadir Max |
Maximum look angle between the spacecraft’s nadir position and the SAR beam in degrees. |
Number [Degrees |