Orbital bearing almanac Carrier lock · 047°

Every pass, kept on the record.

Meridian is the tracking floor's bulletin: bearings, drift, and corrections logged in the order they happened — instrument-precise, plainly written, made to be read on the night shift.

Slant range36 471 km Carrier−112 dBm Window07:42
BRG 000° · WHAT IT DOES

Three stations, one heading

Meridian docks everything on a bearing — relay traffic, orbital geometry, anything live — so a reader always knows where on the dial they are.

BRG 047° · RELAY

Downlink log

Carrier strength, band, and handover times for every relay overhead — printed as it happens, never smoothed into a chart.

BRG 132° · GEOMETRY

Orbit board

Slant range, elevation, and closing rate plotted against the bearing dial so the geometry reads at a glance.

BRG 214° · LIVE

Anomaly beacon

Rose is reserved for the live and the unexpected — a dropout, a drift, a contact off its predicted track. It always reads as urgent.

BRG 000° · THE MECHANIC

Heading, not hierarchy

There are no rows to scan and no left rail to follow. A module's bearing places it on the dial and tells you what it tracks. Carry the same heading across the almanac, the live board, and the archive, and a reader never loses the plot.

  • Degree scale is the index — no page numbers, no breadcrumbs.
  • Colour keyed to role: amber relay, cyan orbit, rose live.
  • Recolours cleanly on a palette swap — the heading stays, the hue changes.
BRG 270° · COVERAGE

What a night looks like

BRG 047°214passes logged tonight
BRG 132°36 471km mean slant range
BRG 214°99.4%carrier-lock uptime
BRG 301°3anomalies flagged live

Open the almanac.

Bring your ground station onto the dial. Meridian keeps the record so your next shift never starts cold.