The Honeybee satellites are planned to be launched in 2026. The sensors on these satellites are equipped to provide hyperspectral imagery of 260 bands in the 470–2500 nm range at a 5-meter GSD.
Mission Characteristics
| Parameters | Honeybee Constellation |
| Ground Spatial Distance (GSD) | 5 meters |
| Swath |
10 km SWIR 30 km VNIR |
| Wavelength range | 470 - 2500 nm |
| Total available bands | ~160 VNIR, ~100 SWIR |
| Total selectable bands |
Total: 72 VNIR - 46, SWIR - 26 |
| Orbit | Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), 97.45° inclination |
| Altitude | 550 km (TBD) |
| Equator Crossing Time | 10 - 11 AM |
| Off-nadir angle (ONA)/slew | +/- 20° (+/-10° recommended) |
| Revisit time | 1 - 4 days |
| Cloud cover thresholds | <20% |
| Imagery bit depth | 10 bits of dynamic range, stretched to fill a 16-bit container |
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