The overview
What it does.
A field workspace for maritime technical operations. VSG OPS brings satellite alignment, fleet awareness, link planning, and network troubleshooting onto iPhone. Cached data and offline calculations support use on board with limited connectivity.
Under the hood
The details matter.
- 01
A 3D fleet map combines live vessel positions, satellite footprints, signal estimates, and optional weather layers.
- 02
Rank satellite choices for a ship, calculate antenna pointing, and account for surveyed obstructions at the current heading.
- 03
Project coverage and satellite handovers along a 72-hour dead-reckoned voyage, with times and coverage gaps made explicit.
- 04
Calculate ship-side and provider-side solar outage windows using offline geometry.
- 05
Separate gateway, DNS, TLS, captive-portal, and throughput problems with focused network diagnostics.
- 06
Record antenna trims with photos and history, and keep operational credentials in a local-first encrypted vault.
- 07
Shared team places and cached operational data remain useful when connectivity at sea is limited.
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