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Managing Reservations

Reservations are times when the satellite operator has access to the ground station.

Creating a Reservation

All StellarStation interfaces provide a way to create a reservation in an available time slot for contracted ground stations. First, check the availability and then create the reservation with the appropriate availability information.

Checking Reservation Information

All StellarStation interfaces provide a way to check reservation information. This information includes a plan ID, start/stop times, channel sets used, etc.

Updating Reservations

All StellarStation interfaces, except legacy versions, provide a way to update reservations.

When using a legacy version of StellarStation, updates are done by canceling the reservation and reserving it again.

Note that TLE updates may cause changes to reservations.

Canceling a Reservation

All StellarStation interfaces provide a way to cancel a reservation. Simply use the reservation's plan ID to cancel the reservation up to 10 minutes before the start of the reservation.

Once canceled, the time slot may later appear again as available.

Note that a reservation may be canceled automatically in the following circumstances:

  1. A TLE shifts the reservation into an unavailable time slot.
  2. A ground station operator may cancel the reservation due to higher priority reservations, emergency operations, or outages.
  3. An Infostellar staff member may cancel the reservation due to emergency operations.

Statuses

There are six reservation statuses:

  1. RESERVED - The plan is reserved
  2. CONFLICTING - This plan is conflicting with another and action must be taken by the satellite operator
  3. DRIFTED - This plan has drifted too much and action must be taken by the satellite operator
  4. PREPARING - Services are preparing to execute for this plan
  5. EXECUTING - The plan is currently in progress
  6. COMPLETED - The plan executed without issue
  7. FAILED - The plan executed with issue
  8. CANCELLED - The plan is canceled and will not execute

Determining Success

COMPLETED statuses do not necessarily mean everything went perfectly well. Some issues may not be automatically detected. In the end, if something doesn't look quite right with the pass, please open a ticket to report the issue.