Beta 0.1.0¶
First Evaluation Build · 4 October 2026
First Evaluation Build. This is the opening public cut of ASTROLAB as a Digital Mission Engineering platform: one mission tree, system-level analyses, live 3D, and ReportGraph — on Web and Desktop, sharing the .astrolab document.
Evaluate it on a Web Trial (no credit card) or on Desktop. Start with Create your first mission, then LEO optical mission.
Catalogue of all trains: Release notes.
Highlights¶
- Shared mission model across Desktop and Web
- Web workspace: Design, Dashboard (Reporting), Engineering Portal, compact shell on tablet / phone
- Cloud missions with plan entitlements on the API
- Portable
.astrolabcontainer (import / export) - First analysis catalogue for coverage, links, networks, latency, power, lifetime, and station-keeping envelopes
Platforms¶
| Host | In 0.1.0 |
|---|---|
| Web | astrolab.stellor.space — Trial, cloud library, analyses in STELLOR cloud |
| Desktop | Native workspace, analyses on your machine, same tree and file |
Side-by-side: Desktop vs web.
In this build¶
Mission and assets. Scenario, orbit design wizard, attitude, constraints, Walker constellations, facilities, vehicles, AOIs, sensors, antennas, transmitters / receivers, solar arrays, batteries. Propulsion is documented as a preview only — not in Beta 0.1.0.
Analyses (each page states its 0.1.0 depth):
| Analysis | What 0.1.0 delivers |
|---|---|
| Coverage | Continuous grid, Discrete demand (in the area of interest or facility tasking), Static sites. Facility tasking measures tasking delay and look delay. The command can go direct, or by ISL with CGR earliest delivery |
| Link | Access windows; optional RF budget |
| Connection network | Operational mesh (ground and ISL edges) and access cache. A laser or a dump antenna on the mesh is a sensor on its parent spacecraft |
| Routing / Path | Best route from one source to the best of several targets, at each time step. Criteria: shortest path, fewest hops, fastest file, and earliest delivery with store-and-forward (CGR) on an idle network |
| Latency | From acquisition to a gateway: scan, EO, radar, IoT packets, and live sessions. Direct downlink, or ISL relay with CGR earliest delivery. Coverage command routing and the file dump are chosen separately |
| Power | First energy-balance cut: arrays, packs, scheduled loads |
| Lifetime | Uncontrolled decay to re-entry (DSST, scalar ballistic coefficient) |
| Station keeping | Analytical Budget: LEO altitude deadband + GEO EW/NS |
| Dashboard plots | Charts and tables from a completed run |
Documentation. This site (MkDocs) is the user-facing reference for 0.1.0. Flight dynamics kernel: Orekit 13.1 — Flight dynamics. Licenses: Open source. What comes next: Development Roadmap.
Web plan caps (scenario length, Discrete N, constellation size, …) apply as in Plans and entitlements. Hitting a cap is not a product defect.
Feedback¶
This is an evaluation build. Send issues, scope questions, and feature requests via STELLOR contact (topic: ASTROLAB). Include the version Beta 0.1.0, host (Web or Desktop), and the analysis or asset involved.