SatOps Dashboard
Manage and oversee operations for a constellation of satellites.
SatOps is an internal dashboard Umbra Space's satellite operations team uses to manage and oversee a constellation of satellites in real time.
Users
Umbra Space's internal satellite operations team of 10 operators.
Problem
Operating a satellite constellation requires monitoring many moving parts at once: coverage, collection status, and communications. There was no single view built for that workflow.
Goals
Design a dashboard that gives the operations team a clear, real-time view of the constellation and the tools to manage collection tasks and communications from one place.
Impact
Scaling from constellation to satellite
Operators needed to move fluidly between two very different jobs: watching the health of the whole constellation at a glance, and drilling into a single satellite's status when something needed attention. I designed one map-based view with four zoom tiers, from the full constellation down to individual satellite detail, so operators never lose context switching between the two.
Surfacing blackout state
Satellites regularly go offline for scheduled maintenance, unavailable for both ground communication and imaging collection during that window. Operators shouldn't have to guess whether a satellite is down for a known reason or something's actually wrong, so I designed a distinct blackout treatment that reads clearly at every zoom level, from the full constellation view down to a single satellite.
Managing collection tasks
A "collect" is a tasking action: pointing a satellite to capture imagery of a target. At the most zoomed-out view of the operations timeline, individual collects sit too close together in time to tell apart, so I designed a cluster treatment that groups them and lets operators drill in to see and manage the individual tasks underneath.
Communications panel
The comm panel surfaces everything an operator needs to know about an upcoming ground station contact window, including monitoring data as it uplinks and downlinks in real time.
