Mission Two is a working Earth-observation flight over two tasking regions, run at four times speed across a much longer window, with four ground stations coming into view and leaving it again. Nothing is scripted to go wrong here either. The difficulty is the pass itself: short windows, real tasking, and a product at the end that somebody downstream will act on.

Mission Two is a working Earth-observation flight over two tasking regions, with four ground stations coming into view and leaving again. Nothing is scripted to go wrong, so every role is judged on discipline rather than on reaction. Click a role to see what it holds this mission.

MISSION LEADFocus: the pass, start to finish.▪ SELECTEDSATELLITE OPERATIONSFocus: acquisition to loss of signal.▸ WHAT IT HOLDSPAYLOAD OPERATIONSFocus: capture, verify, release.▸ WHAT IT HOLDS

▷ MISSION LEAD

You run the pass. You open it, you hold the thresholds, and you close it.

Focus: the pass, start to finish.

• · Confirm contact, the pass timeline and the ground station at the start of every pass
• · Approve safe-mode entry or a spacecraft reset personally, never by delegation
• · Review whether primary tasking completed and whether anomalies occurred, the moment the pass ends
• · Set the escalation thresholds the two operators work to

A contact window is short and it does not pause. Crews that improvise inside one lose it. The lifecycle gives every phase of the pass a fixed job, so the crew is deciding what to do about the vehicle rather than deciding what to do next. Click a step for the reasoning behind it.

Zendir, the digital twin and mission simulation platform Kestrel procured, replicates your satellite operations center. Everything you rehearsed here you now do for real inside it: one mission objective and ten scored questions. The ten questions land on the pass lifecycle you just walked. Run it in three steps: take your assigned consoles, fly the one objective and answer the ten questions in platform where they are scored, then note the score and come back here for the debrief. Your facilitator provides Zendir access, and two things must be true before you fly.

Zendir scored your mission out of 100 toward the Top SCOR Team standings. Note where you landed, then run the debrief while it is fresh. Work these three questions in order; the last one is the one that becomes an engineering update in the quarterly SCOR exercise.