Quick start
Ten minutes from a blank browser tab to a fleet on the globe, three answered operational questions, an uploaded satellite, and a generated report. No account is required to start.
1. Open the console (1 minute)
Two hosted consoles are available:
| Console | URL | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Production | console.constellation.space/app/ | Operating a real tenant |
| Development | dev-console.constellation.space/app/ | The latest merged features, wired to seeded sandbox data |
Either works for this walkthrough. See Environments for how they differ.
Guest or signed in? You can proceed as a guest with no account: the full globe, timeline, imports, and deterministic analytics all work, and you get 10 assistant queries to spend. Signing in unlocks unlimited queries on a paid plan, live API access, and prediction tiers; see Plans and billing.
2. Get a fleet on the globe (1 minute)
If you sign in with an empty scene, the fleet setup wizard offers four paths: upload files, connect live telemetry, load the demo, or generate a synthetic constellation. For a first session, choose Load the demo: one click loads a realistic operator constellation with gateways, feeder links, and a stored telemetry window.
Once loaded, click any satellite or ground station. The entity card opens on the right with overview, orbit, and network detail for the instant on the timeline. Press play on the timeline transport at the bottom to watch the fleet move; scrub to any instant and every metric re-evaluates there.
3. Ask the assistant three real questions (4 minutes)
Open the chat composer at the bottom. Every answer is computed by a deterministic engine or a named prediction model, never improvised, and analytical answers arrive as insight cards with their scope, method, and calculation attached.
Try these three, in order:
- A fleet read: "What is fleet utilization right now, broken down by constellation?" The assistant runs the deterministic fleet-statistics engine over the scene you are looking at and charts the result.
- A design question: "Create a Walker constellation, 24 satellites in 6 planes at 550 km." Real TLEs are synthesized and injected through the same propagation pipeline as everything else; the new satellites animate on the globe, permanently labeled synthetic.
- A what-if: "Simulate losing our highest-traffic gateway." The outage engine re-derives feeder access from the surviving gateways and reports re-homed satellites, orphaned satellites, and before/after fleet statistics.
The assistant can also drive the UI: select assets, fly the camera, toggle catalog constellations, and seek the timeline. See AI assistant and the agentic docs.
4. Upload a TLE (2 minutes)
Open the Assets panel from the left rail and import a TLE file, or paste two-line elements directly. Validation is per record: a bad line is rejected with the offending text quoted, and checksum mismatches warn without blocking. Your satellite lands on the globe with the same SGP4 propagation and smooth interpolation as the operator fleet.
Re-importing the same TLE later updates the existing asset instead of creating a duplicate. Full details: Uploads and TLE ingestion and the first upload tutorial.
5. Generate a report (2 minutes)
Any analytical answer in chat can be captured into a report, or you can run a workflow template (for example Daily fleet health) to generate one end to end: posture, degraded assets, and utilization trends, each number carrying the tool run that produced it. Reports are editable documents with regenerable charts and export to Markdown, HTML, and PDF. See Reports and the reports tutorial.
Where next
| Your goal | Next page |
|---|---|
| Understand what the platform is | Platform overview |
| Compare plans and prediction tiers | Plans and billing |
| Pick the right environment | Environments |
| Work through guided exercises | Tutorials |
| Wire real telemetry in | Connect telemetry |
| Call the API directly | API overview |