For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt.The Timeline visualizes computed passes for the spacecraft and ground stations you select, laid out on a shared time axis with one lane per station. Route:
/passes/timeline
Open the page via the Timeline tab in the Passes area’s tab bar, alongside the Table, Stations, and Coverage Map tabs.
Every Requested Station Gets a Lane
Every station you select gets its own lane on the timeline — always, whether or not it has any passes to show. A lane is never dropped just because a station has nothing to report, because “nothing to report” is not one situation; it is three different ones, and the timeline tells you which:An excluded station’s message describes the station’s own configuration problem rather than a generic failure, so it names what to fix instead of just saying something went wrong. If the message doesn’t make sense, re-check the station’s elevation mask on the Stations page.
Why This Distinction Matters
Before this, a station that returned nothing looked the same whether it genuinely had a clear sky or its configuration was broken — there was no way to tell, from the timeline alone, whether to do nothing or to fix something. Because every requested station now always gets a lane and a stated outcome, a clear result and a broken one never look the same.Related Pages
- Passes Overview — how the Passes area’s pages fit together.
- Elevation Masks — what a station’s elevation mask is and how it combines with its minimum elevation.
- Ground Stations — upload or replace a station’s elevation-mask survey.