STM's Mission Planning Software is a web-based application that can be used to plan operations for missions consisting of one or more satellites, subject to constraints and resources. The Mission Planning Software performs high-accuracy computation of mission parameters, enabling engineers to explore opportunities to maximize benefit from their satellite system.

Key features include:

• Automatic planning without user intervention
• Ability to create image requests through the map application with utilities such as distance measurement on the map
• Feasibility analysis at the entry of an image request using satellite dynamics and image geometry
• Satellite power and memory management
• Support for different imaging request types:
  • Spot
  • Strip (both parallel to orbit and inclined)
  • Periodic image acquisition
  • Single Pass Stereo
  • Wide Area Slicing
  • Border Line Slicing
• More than 10 different image / target guidance methods, which differs in steering modes including special imaging techniques such as constant GSD