Question about durations/timelines for satellite art/research project

Dear all, I have a probably slightly unusual question which is for a satellite art/research project that I am currently conducting between the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge, UK). For this project, I am currently looking for various “durations” that are required for gathering and processing satellite data.

For this, we are trying to work with durations that are more than 0,5 seconds (mostly for practical purposes), such as the time it takes for specific satellites to orbit the earth, how long it takes to get which satellite image of what size, or the time span of sending the control command to take an image until the image is available on the ground. I would be very grateful and interested in any hints, thanks in advance!

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Hi @LilianK

PlanetScope satellites (SuperDoves) orbit Earth approximately every 90 minutes as mentioned in the PlanetScope documentation.

Skysat: taken from the help center article What is the Expected Time From Capture to Availability for Tasked SkySat Imagery
“Planet's SkySat constellation has a collection to delivery SLA of 24 hours for all tasking customers. We typically deliver well within that time, and in many cases within 6 hours 98% of the time.”

Hope this helps! :)

Hi
@elyhienrich

Thanks so much for your reply to this, that’s very helpful! If there are more durations that come to your mind, I am very open to hearing about them – it can also be small details that can turn out interesting for this project :)