Orbitra mission view, GRA, Ilorin
Eyes and ears over Africa, run from Ilorin.
Satellite imagery, broadband and tracking for farms, cities, pipelines and fleets, from the ground station in the middle of Nigeria. Watch ORB-2 pass over it right now.
ORB-2 polar orbit, about 540 km
Nigeria Ilorin ground station
Animated view of the Orbitra satellite ORB-2 orbiting over a dot map of Africa, with a beam to the ground station in Ilorin when it passes overhead.
Over
9.1° N, 4.2° EWest AfricaAltitude
540 km7.59 km/sIlorin link
Lockedelevation 62°Next imaging pass
14:32ORB-1 over KanoLive
- Next pass over Ilorin: ORB-2 in 14 min
- Network uptime 99.94% this month
- 3,412 broadband terminals online
- 1,180 km² imaged over Nigeria today
- 18,240 trackers reporting
- Ilorin ground station: 3 of 3 antennas ready
Updated from the COVORN apps (example data)
What we run
Five services, one console
Every service reports into the same Orbitra console, so a farm manager, a fleet controller and a city planner see the same live picture.
Earth observation
1,180 km²imaged over Nigeria today, exampleOrder imagerySatellite broadband
99.94%network uptime this monthPlans and speedsAsset tracking
18,240trackers reporting, exampleHow tracking worksGround station
114passes handled yesterdayBook pass timeOrbitra Insight
92%crop type accuracy on validated fields, exampleSee the analyticsBy industry
The same satellites, four different jobs
Agriculture
Field by field crop health, planted area, flood and drought risk for out grower programmes, lenders, insurers and large farms across the savanna and the south.
Built from earth observation, orbitra insight analytics, satellite broadband.
Explore agricultureFields monitored
212,000exampleHectares
1.4munder weekly watchAlert to visit
3 daysaverage, exampleEnergy and mining
Watch pipelines, power lines, solar farms and mine sites from orbit, and keep remote camps online with broadband that does not depend on the nearest mast.
Built from earth observation, orbitra insight analytics, asset and iot tracking, satellite broadband.
Explore energy and miningPipeline watched
2,800 kmexampleEncroachment alerts
Weeklyor on every passCamp uptime
99.9%business planGovernment and cities
Flood maps within hours, building counts for planning and revenue, school and clinic connectivity, and evidence for every project milestone, for state ministries and local governments.
Built from earth observation, orbitra insight analytics, satellite broadband.
Explore government and citiesFlood map
Within 6 hof a radar captureBuildings mapped
4.1macross 9 states, exampleSchools online
640exampleLogistics and maritime
Track trucks across the long northern routes, boats on the Niger and containers in yards, with fuel sensors, geofences and broadband for depots and ports.
Built from asset and iot tracking, satellite broadband, orbitra insight analytics.
Explore logistics and maritimeVehicles tracked
11,600exampleFuel loss reduced
38%average after 6 months, exampleReport rate
5 minon moving assetsCoverage
Is your site covered?
Pick a town to see the broadband speed, latency and imaging revisit you can expect. Every town in Nigeria is covered; speeds vary by beam.
Results show here: beam, speed, latency and revisit.
Today over Nigeria
Pass schedule, 5 November
Contact windows for our satellites and partners over the Ilorin ground station. Example schedule.
- ORB-1Imaging pass, Kwara and Nigermax elevation 74°
- ORB-2Downlink to Ilorin, 38 GBmax elevation 88°
- PartnerRadar capture, Benue flood plainmax elevation 61°
- ORB-2Imaging pass, Lagos and Ogunmax elevation 69°
- ORB-1Imaging pass, Kanomax elevation 82°
- ORB-3Student cubesat, UHF downlinkmax elevation 45°
- ORB-2Night radar, Niger Deltamax elevation 57°
- ORB-1Downlink to Ilorin, 41 GBmax elevation 90°
3,412broadband terminals online
212,000farm fields monitored
2,800 kmof pipeline watched weekly
36states and the FCT served
Example figures for this demo.
Any hour
A person, a chat or a phone that never sleeps
Quote and order in the chat
Vablus can price a broadband plan for your site or an imagery order for your area, take the deposit through Receivly and send the receipt.
Open the chatNetwork operations, day and night
Our Ilorin operations room watches every terminal and pass. See the same live view the team uses.
Live mission viewCustomers
What changes when you can see it
Example clients for this demo.
We checked 41 project sites across Kwara in one week without sending a single vehicle. The before and after images went straight into the board report.
Our 12 rural clinics now upload test results the same day. Before, a driver carried them to Ilorin every Friday.
Fuel theft on our Ilorin to Kano route fell by more than half in the first quarter. We see every stop now.
During the September floods our emergency team had ward level maps on their phones by lunchtime.
Insights
From the analysts in Ilorin
Mapping a flood in six hours
How radar sees through rainy season cloud, step by step.
Reading a dry spell from orbit
What vegetation indices showed across Kwara in July.
All insightsGuides, notes and the monthly pass report
Plain language notes on imagery, connectivity and tracking in Nigeria.
See allSee your own site from orbit
Send us a location and we will send a recent image and a coverage report within one working day, free.