ONYXSPACE

Concept · built for OnyX Space

From orbit to your screen

Follow one tasking across the sky: an order, a satellite, a ground station, and Thung Talay Luang landing on a tablet.

Follow the mission

01 · Task

Order a place, not a satellite

A customer drops a pin on Sukhothai, Thailand. The request goes to whichever satellite can see it soonest, within 35° of straight down and with the sun high enough to light it.

Fleet shown: 6 satellites in two sun-synchronous planes at 550 km, one lap every 95.5 minutes. It is a stand-in; the real satellites depend on which operator you task.

02 · Collect

A ten-second window

The satellite crosses the sky at 7.6 km/s and rolls to point at the target. For about ten seconds the heart-shaped lake is in frame, in morning light at 10:30 local time.

Orbit, timing and sun angle are computed, not animated. Scrub the mission bar to check.

04 · Deliver

On the screen

Corrected, tiled and delivered. Drag the tablet anywhere, tap the image, and read any spot as a 3 × 3 m cell.

Addressa · your turn

Every cell, an address

Pick any spot on Earth. Task the fleet, or fly your own satellite over it, and watch the image come down through Singapore. Addressa turns what lands into 3 × 3 m cells with a code you can hand to a courier.

Explore Addressa ↗Fleet, orbits and station are illustrative. Passes, roll limits, daylight and station visibility are computed.

Tasking standing by

Scroll here to take the controls

Place or click the globe

Task the fleet

Or fly your own

Earth: NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble, NASA GIBS (Earth Observatory / VIIRS).

Thailand 250 m: VIIRS via NASA GIBS. Close-up 10 m: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data.

Image on the tablet: supplied by OnyX Space for this concept. Cell IDs on the tablet are an illustrative hash, not Addressa’s algorithm.

About the OnyX Space simulation

Satellite tasking, from order to screen, simulated

Orbit
550 km sun-synchronous, 95.5 min per lap
Fleet shown
6 satellites, 2 planes (illustrative)
Target
Thung Talay Luang, 17.05°N 99.79°E
Sensor roll limit
35° off-nadir (illustrative)
Ground station
Singapore, 10° mask (placeholder)
Order to screen
about 27 minutes (illustrative)
Grid
3 × 3 m cells (Addressa)

A live, scroll-driven simulation of one Earth-observation tasking. A customer drops a pin on Thung Talay Luang (Sukhothai, Thailand); the request goes to the satellite that can see it soonest; it rolls to point, images the target in a ten-second window, downlinks to a ground station and the corrected image lands on a tablet. The orbit, the sun and the ground-station geometry are computed, not animated; the fleet, station and processing times are labelled illustrative.

Questions

Does OnyX Space operate these satellites?+

No. OnyX Space resells and aggregates imagery from other operators, so the fleet drawn here is a generic stand-in. The demo shows how a tasking flows, not whose satellite flies it.

What is real and what is illustrative?+

The orbit geometry, the sun position, Earth rotation and the ground-station visibility are computed. The fleet size, the Singapore station, the sensor roll limit and every processing duration are illustrative and labelled so on the page.

Where does the imagery come from?+

The Earth is NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble via NASA GIBS; the 250 m regional view is VIIRS via GIBS; the 10 m close-up contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data. The image on the tablet was supplied by OnyX Space.

Can I run the numbers myself?+

Yes. The headless terminal at /kit/onyx/cli answers questions like when a point on Earth is next in reach of a satellite, how often, and how that changes with fleet size.