Changelog

• Area import validation: a boundary VALAR cannot use (an edge spanning more than 90 degrees, a ring enclosing a pole, or an antimeridian crossing) is now rejected with a specific reason that names the offending part, and an area that can never produce overflights now says so instead of showing an empty list.
• Boundary density limits: when a boundary has more vertices or pieces than the ceiling, the refusal now names both your file's count and the limit, so you know whether to trim a few points or reach for a different source.

• Measurement upload: uploading measurements for a spacecraft that cannot be resolved now returns a clear "not found" instead of a misleading "forbidden".
• Conjunctions: a conjunction that disappears while its details are being computed now returns a clean "not found" instead of an error.

• Spacecraft: the list endpoint now accepts NORAD ID, COSPAR ID, name, or an external key as filters, so an integrator holding any of them can resolve a spacecraft's permanent identifier in one call; each spacecraft also carries a settable external key, immutable once set.
• Payloads: a payload can now carry a detector pixel pitch and an optical focal length, both optional, which feed the new modelled ground sample distance readings.

• Public-catalog orbit fallback: when a spacecraft's own precise orbit ages out, VALAR now automatically falls back to its latest public-catalog TLE (from Space-Track or CelesTrak) so passes, plots, overflight, and the rest keep working, clearly flagged as running on a fallback orbit instead of going dark.
• Archived spacecraft stay out of the way: archiving a spacecraft now takes full effect across the workspace. Archived craft drop out of spacecraft pickers and are excluded from orbit determination, overflight, conjunction screening, and alerts, and the spacecraft list defaults to active-only with an Archived badge on the rest.
• Permanently delete a spacecraft: a new danger-zone flow on the spacecraft detail page lets you permanently remove a spacecraft and all of its data. Before anything is deleted, VALAR shows exactly what will be removed and asks you to type the spacecraft's id to confirm.
• Faster with large fleets: the Ground Track and Keplerian Elements pages load noticeably faster when many spacecraft are selected.

• Keplerian Elements: opening the Keplerian Elements page no longer gets stuck in a reload loop; the page loads reliably again.
• Maneuver export: exporting a maneuver plan that contains no maneuvers now produces a valid file instead of an error.

• Configurable attitude export: export attitude ephemeris in your choice of representation (quaternions or Euler angles), rotation convention, and reference frame including the local-orbital (LVLH) frame, or both representations together, in the standard CCSDS Attitude Ephemeris Message (AEM) format.

• Ground-station passes: the elevation-mask radar plot on the stations page and the New Station dialog displays correctly again.
• Spacecraft forms: creating or editing a spacecraft now surfaces validation problems clearly instead of failing without explanation.
• Areas of interest: status and tag filters now also apply to the map, not just the list.

• State Vectors: you can now list state vectors for more than 50 spacecraft in a single request without hitting an error.

• Reorganized spacecraft detail page — the spacecraft detail page has been rebuilt around fidelity tier: Identifiers, the Cannonball drag-and-SRP model, Advanced geometry, and a Danger Zone for destructive actions each live in their own card you can edit independently. Creating a new spacecraft now happens in a dialog you can open from anywhere in the app, with per-field validation as you type.
• Reference frame badges on every plot — every frame-bearing plot — ground tracks, orbital-element plots, ephemeris plots, attitude Euler-angle plots, attitude quaternion components — now carries a small badge next to its title naming the reference frame its axes are drawn in, with a tooltip explanation and a link to the reference-frame catalog. The badge updates in lock-step when a plot lets you switch frames mid-session.
• Spacecraft list performance — listing many spacecraft with detailed advanced-geometry panels is materially faster.

• Maneuver mass calculation — looking up a spacecraft's mass at a maneuver's epoch no longer errors when the spacecraft has no configured dry mass; the lookup returns cleanly instead of crashing the call.
• Spacecraft NORAD ID editing — editing a spacecraft whose NORAD catalog number arrived as a numeric value (for example from an OPM import) no longer crashes the form; the field is normalised to a string before the editor renders.
• Midnight timestamps — labels showing the exact moment 00:00:00 UTC now render their date part correctly in every place a timestamp appears.

• Operator-typed drag and SRP areas — set each spacecraft's atmospheric-drag and solar-radiation-pressure cross-sections directly, in square metres, instead of relying on a single derived effective-area value. The two areas are entered independently on the spacecraft's Platform settings and feed straight into orbit predictions.

• Conjunctions — conjunction cards and the alert timeline no longer break when an alert's miss distance is missing or non-numeric; the value is now omitted cleanly instead of erroring the view.
• State vector import — when an import is rejected, the error notification now shows the specific reason returned by the platform instead of a generic failure message.
• Spacecraft selectors — the spacecraft filter and picker dropdowns now cap their height and scroll on long fleets, and behave consistently everywhere they appear.

• TDM measurement imports — multi-block TDM uploads now correctly preserve the sensor ID declared on each block, so per-block measurements no longer collapse onto the first block's sensor.

• Legacy /api-docs Swagger UI retired — the legacy customer-facing OpenAPI group at /api-docs and its Swagger UI have been removed. The current API reference lives at docs.valar.space/api-reference.

• State vector comparison — place two state vectors side by side on the Keplerian elements page to validate a new orbit determination against a previous solution, sanity-check a freshly imported OPM, or compare your latest fit against a public TLE without leaving the platform.
• Tasks runs page — every scheduled, manual, and event-driven task run reports into a single filterable Runs page in the Tasks section, giving you a top-level audit trail across spacecraft, status, and trigger source.

• Scheduled orbit determinations — orbit determinations triggered by a task now reliably save their resulting orbit solution and state vector, instead of completing silently without writing the result.
• Measurements import — TDM uploads with a mix of valid and invalid entries now correctly surface per-file errors so you can see exactly which entries were rejected and why.
• Orbit solution cleanup — deleting an orbit solution now succeeds in all cases, and OPM imports tolerate a wider range of file formatting.
• Spacecraft pages — restored full-page scrolling on the spacecraft detail and new-spacecraft pages, which had been clipped under the previous fixed-height layout.

Refinements to existing capabilities. New options on existing endpoints, additional fields surfaced in the UI, performance gains, and operator flows that work a little better than they did last week. Anything that tightens existing behaviour without changing its contract.

Bugs caught and corrected. Regressions reverted, latent issues resolved before they reach a customer. We try to be specific about the failure mode so operators can quickly recognise whether a past surprise has been addressed.

Endpoint additions, schema changes, new query parameters, deprecation notices, and any field-level changes that affect API consumers and SDK users. Breaking changes call themselves out explicitly, so anyone integrating with VALAR can spot them at a glance.