Capabilities

Capabilities are analysis workflows that consume mission assets and produce structured results. In ASTROLAB, most capabilities are represented by analysis assets. Each analysis asset stores configuration, dependency GUIDs, execution status, results, summaries, and report/plot payloads.

Analysis Architecture

flowchart TD
    UI["Analysis Dialog"] --> AS["Analysis Asset"]
    AS --> V["Validate Configuration"]
    V --> S["Analysis Service"]
    S --> R["Structured Results"]
    R --> P["Plots"]
    R --> T["Reports"]
    R --> L["Viewer Layers"]
    R --> SAVE["Project Save"]

Capability Overview

Capability	Main inputs	Main outputs
Coverage Analysis	Spacecraft/sensors, AOI/grid, timeline, constraints	Access intervals per point, scalar coverage field, heat-map data.
Coverage Metric	Coverage analysis results and selected metric definition	Derived scalar values for reporting and plotting.
Link Analysis	Primary asset, secondary assets, optional RF chain	Contact intervals, geometry, link budget metrics.
Power Analysis	Spacecraft, solar arrays, batteries, loads	Solar power, load power, net power, SOC, deficit.
Lifetime Analysis	Spacecraft, atmosphere, drag properties, solar activity	Altitude evolution, lifetime estimate, density, F10.7 series.
Path Analysis	Network connections, source/target, max hops	Candidate strands, active paths, hop metrics.
Reports and Visualization	Analysis payloads and templates	Tables, time series plots, heat maps, exported documents.

Result Model

Most analysis assets follow this structure:

Key	Description
results["summary"]	Compact statistics and headline values.
results["payload"]	Detailed data used by plots, reports, and other services.
results["artifacts"]	Generated geometry or auxiliary products.

This lets ASTROLAB treat analyses as persistent mission assets rather than temporary calculations.