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Data coverage // Constellation status

Sub-meter imagery, revisits measured in hours, coverage that holds up at procurement review.

The Spica constellation revisits 94% of Earth's landmass every four hours at 0.7 m native resolution. Every pass is routed through the Insight pipeline and delivered as analysis-ready change-detection tiles — typically within 78 minutes of acquisition.

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Bringing an area of interest? Mission ops can confirm the next pass window before the call.

Datasheet // Coverage axes

Four measurable axes, one procurement-grade spec sheet.

Every coverage claim below resolves to a number a GIS engineer can paste into a tender response. No adjectives, no qualifiers — just the axes that determine whether the constellation actually services your area of interest.

  1. 01

    Native resolution

    0.7 m

    Sub-meter ground sample distance at nadir, with sharpening on the 0.5 m panchromatic band. Sufficient to distinguish individual vehicles, vessel wakes, and small-scale encroachment on linear infrastructure.

    Panchromatic
    0.50 m
    Multispectral
    2.8 m
    Swath width
    12.4 km
  2. 02

    Revisit frequency

    4 hmedian

    Median time between successive cloud-free opportunities across 94% of Earth's landmass. Worst-case revisit at the equator remains inside 11 hours; high-latitude AOI typically sees six or more passes per day.

    Best case
    47 min
    95th percentile
    9.2 h
    Landmass covered
    94%
  3. 03

    Tasking-to-delivery latency

    78 minmedian

    Wall-clock time from a confirmed tasking request to an analyzed tile landing in your S3 bucket, GCS bucket, or Spica Insight workspace. Independently benchmarked by the Open Geospatial Consortium in Q1 2025.

    P50
    78 min
    P95
    3 h 12 min
    Onboard inference
    22× downlink reduction
  4. 04

    Landmass coverage

    94%of land

    Routine revisit coverage spans every inhabited continent, with the residual 6% concentrated in polar regions and the open Southern Ocean — areas addressable through partner constellations on a 24-hour SLA.

    Continents
    6 / 6
    AOI zones
    380+ in production
    Polar / open ocean
    partner-backed

How the revisit actually holds up

Phasing across planes, not promises across decks.

Spica operates 11 satellites distributed across three orbital planes at 528 km sun-synchronous altitude. Two planes are dedicated to mid-latitude tasking; a third plane carries a dawn-dusk local-time crossing to maintain cadence during eclipse season. Phasing is reviewed quarterly against the published acquisition ledger — we do not move the satellites for marketing screenshots.

Diagram of three orbital planes carrying the 11-satellite Spica constellation
Three orbital planes · 11 active satellites · SSO 528 km · quarterly phase review

The cadence contract is published, not estimated. Every acquisition is timestamped to the millisecond in the open ledger, and every delivered tile carries a verifiable acquisition-to-delivery signature. Procurement teams can audit the latency numbers against their own integration tests during evaluation.

Regional readout

Pick your region. See the cadence before you book the call.

Median figures measured across the trailing 90 days. Cloud-cover strategy reflects the dominant seasonal pattern for that region — every account is supported by a dedicated mission planner who can confirm a specific AOI's window.

NA

North America

Median revisit
3.2 h
Native resolution
0.7 m
Cloud strategy
SAR-fused fallback

Coastal California, Gulf Coast, and the agricultural Midwest see additional passes under the tasking-priority tier.

LATAM

Latin America

Median revisit
4.1 h
Native resolution
0.7 m
Cloud strategy
Tropical mosaic (multi-pass)

Amazon basin and Andean cloud forests reconciled through stacked-pass change detection with sub-pixel registration.

EU·MENA

Europe & MENA

Median revisit
3.6 h
Native resolution
0.7 m
Cloud strategy
Dust & haze compensation

Saharan dust and Mediterranean haze flagged at acquisition; aerosol-corrected tiles ship with a per-pixel confidence band.

APAC

Asia-Pacific

Median revisit
4.8 h
Native resolution
0.7 m
Cloud strategy
Monsoon-aware tasking

Singapore mission ops handles tasking 24/7; typhoon-season acquisition windows are pre-allocated to subscribing customers.

SSA

Sub-Saharan Africa

Median revisit
5.2 h
Native resolution
0.7 m
Cloud strategy
Harmattan windowing

Harmattan haze and ITCZ cloud bands handled via composite-pass scheduling; published partnership with the World Bank on forest-loss monitoring.

OCE

Oceania

Median revisit
4.4 h
Native resolution
0.7 m
Cloud strategy
Marine-cell prioritisation

Great Barrier Reef bleaching monitoring and Pacific maritime domain awareness tasks share a high-cadence maritime tier.

Operations // Throughput

Coverage, measured as the number of tiles that actually shipped.

4.2 M Analyzed tiles served daily Streaming via Spica API and Insight workspace
19,400+ Tasking requests fulfilled (24 mo) 24/7 mission operations centre, Boulder CO
78 min Acquisition-to-delivery median Independently benchmarked by OGC, Q1 2025
99.97% API uptime, trailing 12 months SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001 · FedRAMP Moderate

Next step

Bring your AOI. We'll show you the pass window.

A 30-minute demo with a mission planner — not a slide deck. Drop in a shapefile, a coordinate pair, or a country code, and we will return the next three acquisition windows and the projected delivery timestamps before the call ends.

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  • 30 minutes · screen-shared · no recording
  • Custom AOI validation included
  • Integration endpoints reviewed with your team