Asked why the satellite dropdown exists when the passes are on the right, and
the honest answer was that the table was incomplete. Three kinds of satellite
never appeared in it: QO-100, which has no pass because it never sets; one whose
elements have not arrived, which cannot be predicted at all; and one whose next
pass falls beyond the prediction window. Following a satellite and not finding it
in the list reads as OpsLog having lost it.
They are listed at the end now, each saying which of the three it is, and
clicking one selects it exactly like a pass row. The table stops being "what is
coming" and becomes "what you follow, soonest first" — which is what an operator
was scanning it for anyway.
The dropdown stays, and now for one reason rather than by default: it is the
only selector left when the readout column is hidden, which is what an operator
does when they want the map full width during a pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
rouggyandClaude Opus 5
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