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Schedule a contact

Schedule a contact with your satellite for data retrieval and delivery on Azure Orbital Ground Station. At the scheduled time, the selected ground station will contact the spacecraft and start data retrieval/delivery using the designated contact profile. Learn more about contact resources.

Contacts are created on a per-pass and per-site basis. If you already know the pass timings for your spacecraft and desired ground station, you can directly proceed to schedule the pass with these times. The service will succeed in creating the contact resource if the window is available and fail if the window is unavailable.

If you don't know your spacecraft's pass timings or which ground station sites are available, you can use the Azure portal or Azure Orbital Ground Station API to query for available contact opportunities and use the results to schedule your passes accordingly.

Method List available contacts Schedule contacts Notes
Portal Yes Yes Custom pass timings aren't supported. You must use the results from the query.
API Yes Yes Custom pass timings are supported.

Prerequisites

Azure portal method

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal - Orbital.

  2. In the Azure portal search box, enter Spacecraft. Select Spacecraft in the search results.

  3. In the Spacecraft page, select the spacecraft for the contact.

  4. Select Schedule contact on the top bar of the spacecraft’s overview.

    Schedule a contact at spacecraft resource page

  5. In the Schedule contact page, specify this information from the top of the page:

    Field Value
    Contact profile Specify the contact profile to be used for the contact
    Ground station Specify the ground station(s) to be used for the contact
    Start time Identify a start time for the contact availability window
    End time Identify an end time for the contact availability window

    Search for available contact schedules page

  6. Select Search to view available contact times.

  7. Select one or more contact windows and select Schedule.

    Select an available contact schedule page

  8. View scheduled contacts by selecting the spacecraft page, and navigating to Contacts.

    View scheduled contacts page

Note

The new contact resource includes two properties: Provisioning State and Contact Status.

Provisioning state is the current state of the resource's creation, deletion, or modification in Azure.

Contact Status is the execution status of the contact resource. Values include scheduled, cancelled, providerCancelled, succeeded, and failed.

The value of these properties can be found under the Essentials section of the contact overview page.

API method

Use the Contacts REST Operation Group to create a contact with the Azure Orbital Ground Station API.

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