Datum mounts live antenna telemetry into editorial pacing — narrative lede, factual rail, instrumented modules on one baseline — so an operator reads each pass instead of scanning identical cards.
Telemetry, annotations, and operator notes are typeset against the same horizontal rules, so nothing floats free and nothing loses its context.
Every pane carries an inset top rule and a bottom metadata strip — telemetry mounted like a page in a mission report, not dropped into a look-alike tile.
Curves ride a faint gridline-and-scanline scaffold with crosshair ticks. Data reads as measured, never as cartoon sci-fi chrome.
A literary serif leads; a disciplined grotesk summarises; a tabular mono carries the numbers. Authored, sequenced, legible.
Datum kept the margin chart and the operator's notes on the same baseline, so the story and the numbers never drifted apart. Every recovered frame had a caption; every gap had a footnote.
Aggregate carrier lock across the active array, last 24 hours.
Mean bit-error rate after forward error correction.
Combined downlink sustained across seven online stations.