Mission Phases

Azure Orbital Ground Station provides easy and secure access to communication products and services required to support all phases of satellite missions.

Pre-launch

• Initiate ground station licensing ahead of launch to ensure you can communicate with your spacecraft.
• Create and authorize a spacecraft resource for your satellite.
• Prepare your network to send and receive data between the spacecraft and Azure Orbital Ground Station.
• Configure a contact profile with links and channels.
• Add a modem configuration file to the contact profile.
• Prepare for launch with RF compatibility testing and enrollment in Launch Window Scheduling (in preview).

Launch and nominal operations

• Schedule contacts with your spacecraft.
• Keep the spacecraft TLE up to date.
• Receive real-time antenna telemetry from ground station passes.
• Use sample queries for Azure Resource Graph.