Flight dynamics software for modern spacecraft operations.

Our orbit-raise algorithm compares minimum-fuel and fastest options for reaching a higher target orbit. Set the target, planning window, and propellant budget, then compare duration, propellant use, and the remaining reserve before choosing a plan. Review the trajectory and thrust/coast schedule alongside the result, with clear feedback when the target or spacecraft constraints prevent approval.

Every overflight opportunity's detail page now includes a map view: your spacecraft's real ground track and its payload's actual field-of-view footprint, playable across the whole opportunity window or shown as one accumulated shape. Off-nadir access is now genuinely computed, not approximated: declare how far off-nadir a payload may be pointed, independently along two directions, and opportunities a straight-down-only view would miss now appear. Every opportunity's detail tells you exactly which direction, or both, made it reachable, and flags plainly when your payload's optics can't yet be combined across both.

Every AOI overflight opportunity now shows what the acquisition will actually be like, not only when it happens. A new imaging-quality view brings three readings together: the sun-glint angle (how close your viewing direction sits to the Sun's mirror reflection off the target), the Sun at the target (its elevation, bearing, apparent local solar time, and whether the ground was in day, twilight, or night), and the modelled ground sample distance (the size on the ground a single pixel spans, with the full curve and both footprint dimensions). Together they let you weigh lighting and resolution before you task an opportunity. The ground sample distance reading appears once you record a payload's pixel pitch and focal length.

Every VALAR product that runs on a spacecraft's orbit (ground-station passes, ground-track and Keplerian plots, area-of-interest overflight, orbital events, attitude, and maneuver planning) now shares one view of how fresh that orbit is. Each spacecraft carries a single orbit-age status (nominal, degraded, or stale), computed the same way everywhere against a staleness threshold you set once in Settings. When an orbit ages past it, products no longer refuse to run: they warn you and let you proceed consciously, or explain plainly why they cannot. When no fresh precise orbit is available, VALAR falls back to the latest public-catalog orbit and says so. A persistent orbit-data-age footer, a cheatsheet status badge, and proactive status-change alerts keep the fleet's trustworthiness visible.