Getting started
Who this section is for. Mission designers and engineers who have not used this tool before. It assumes you can run commands in a terminal. It does not assume Rust, orbital mechanics, or RF experience.
Work through it in order the first time. After that, jump straight to the Reference for exact behavior, or Learn for the physics behind a number you do not recognize.
Available now
From an empty machine to a 60-satellite constellation animating on a globe.
Link budgetsWhy a link closes or does not, and what the tool computes on your behalf.
Accuracy and limitationsWhat these models are and are not suitable for. Read before a design review.
Not yet published
The following pages are authored in Phase 2 and are deliberately absent rather than published as stubs: Installation, Your first analysis, the non-technical walkthrough, and the remaining Core Concepts pages covering constellations and orbits, time and coordinate frames, propagation fidelity, coverage and revisit, and units and conventions.
A note on naming
The product is Varaha Constellation Designer. The Rust workspace, its
crates, and the command-line binary all use the identifier orbitforge. When
you see orbitforge in a command, that is the same software.
main (pre-release)