Monitor your fleet
The globe is live situational awareness for your constellation: where assets are, how links connect, and how health metrics evolve over time.
Working with the globe
- Navigate — rotate, zoom, and tilt (3D) or switch to 2D under Settings → Display
- Select — click a satellite, ground station, or link for metrics at the current timeline instant
- Delegate to chat — “Select gateway Seattle-1” or “Show the highest-latency ISL”
Link colors encode utilization, SNR, and health from ingested telemetry. After a large time jump on the timeline, pause and play once if derived charts need to resync.
Timeline: live and replay
| Mode | Use when |
|---|---|
| Live | Day-to-day operations; globe tracks incoming telemetry |
| Replay | Incident review, mission rehearsal, or what-if analysis on stored windows |
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| Play / Pause | Advance or freeze the timeline |
| Scrubber | Jump to any instant in the selected window |
| Speed | 1× through 64× for replay |
| UTC inputs | Seek to a specific timestamp |
Defaults—live vs replay on load, speed, clock visibility—are under Settings → Sim.
For gateway contact planning (pass Gantt, AOS/LOS), select a gateway or satellite and open Schedule on the asset card. See Gateway pass operations.
Display preferences
Settings → Display controls 3D/2D, earth styling, labels, fullscreen, and reset camera.
Topology and telemetry
The globe consumes topology snapshots from the Constellation API and applies time-series metrics keyed to nodes and links. Edge collectors and the fleet agent keep telemetry current; topology refreshes on a program-defined cadence or on demand via topology pull.
For automation outside the UI:
node ~/.constellation/fleet-agent.mjs topology pull --out topology.json
See Topology API and Telemetry API.