Areas of Interest and advanced spacecraft components
Areas of Interest
Track the places that matter to your mission. Areas of Interest is a new way to define geographic regions (draw them on the map, enter coordinates, or upload a GeoJSON file) and see exactly when each of your spacecraft can observe them. Overflight predictions use your payload's actual sensor field of view instead of a fixed elevation cutoff, so the access windows reflect what each instrument can genuinely see, and every event flags when the Sun or Moon intrudes into that field of view, calling out the blinded interval so you can filter down to the windows you can actually use.
Advanced spacecraft components
The Advanced geometry page now lets you build a far more faithful spacecraft model. Add the onboard payloads your craft carries (each sensor with its mounting direction and field-of-view shape), pick a regular-prism bus shape, and configure each solar panel independently (size, mounting, orientation, single- or double-sided). Every change is reflected live in the 3D viewer, and a payload's field of view feeds directly into your overflight predictions.
Improvements
- 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.
Fixes
- 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.
API
- State Vectors: you can now list state vectors for more than 50 spacecraft in a single request without hitting an error.
