which may be provided by the invention relate to the status of life support communications mechanical and propulsion systems as well as any other on board system whose operational status may be of interest to personnel on the ground the present invention is also a business method which provides telemetered information in either raw or processed form to users over for example an internet website preferably for a fee these and other features of the invention will be described in greater detail in the discussion which follows referring to fig2 a first embodiment of the system of the present invention monitors the operational performance of a spacecraft which for convenience purposes will hereinafter be referred to as a satellite the system includes a storage device 10 a processor unit 11 and a communications module 12 for connecting to a network 13 the network may be the world wide web accessible through the internet a virtual private network or any other type of network known the processor unit may be a personal computer controlled by a standard operating system such as microsoft windows a workstation running unix a mainframe computer or any other type of processing system a particular example of the processor unit of the invention will be described in connection with the second embodiment however the invention is not intended to be limited by this disclosure the storage device may be any device capable of storing telemetry data derived from the satellite which is illustratively shown by reference numeral 15 preferably the storage device is the heart system which includes an internal computer.