Using geostationary orbit (satellites that are stationed in a fixed position over the Earth) for our service, AstroVision will provide continuous coverage of the area viewed by the satellite. Our product represents a significant leap forward in delivering immediate critical information regarding the weather and the Earth’s environment. The AstroVision sensors will provide the best global and local weather and Earth observation imagery data in the world.

The AVStar-1 and AVStar-2 satellites will each carry seven sensors.

AVStar-1 and AVStar-2

One Wide Field Camera (WFC):

• Up to one frame per second with 2.75 km resolution.
• An overview of the Earth and its systems, the WFC provides context for the Narrow Field Cameras to focus on significant events.

• One frame per second, 1,000km x 1,000km framed, 250m resolution.
• One NFC will assist in refreshing information on local weather in major metropolitan areas once every 10 seconds. (There are approximately 10 one thousand kilometer grids in the U.S., and with the ability to produce an image every second, we will be refreshing the higher resolution, local view approximately 6 times a minute).
• The other NFC camera will be available to dwell, point, and track special events (such as tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires, volcano eruptions), as identified by the WFC.

• Up to one frame per second, 1,000km x 1,000km framed, 250m resolution.
• The spectral bands being detected will include three Near Infrared, five visible, and two Near Ultraviolet, and will monitor a variety of ongoing processes.

• Up to one frame per second with the same field of view and resolution as the NFC.
• This will be used to observe light sources and events on the night side.

• 8 km per pixel.
• This will deliver total lightning event notification (both cloud to ground and intracloud lightning) as well as an indication of turbulence within clouds and storms.

• 9 km per pixel (4.5 km per pixel with half pixel stepping of the gymbal) at up to two frames per second.
• This will deliver the vertical evolution of clouds and storms, a means to monitor clouds at night and surface temperatures where there are no clouds.