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The Operations Tracker is under heavy ongoing development! Please take a moment to also read the Known Issues and report any bugs that you come across during your usage. If you want to know of any changes or additions made to the Wiki check the Change Log in the ReadMe.
The Operations Tracker gives you the ability to visualize the planets, moons, asteroids, vessels and crew that exist in the Kerbal Space Agency universe. Instead of having to be told constantly what is happening at any given time, you can come here and see for yourself! Think of it as live streaming, but all the time.
The real-time views of the Operations Tracker work similar to how Kerbal Space Program works. Keplerian orbital elements are saved for the vessel/body/asteroid/etc at a given state and the position, altitude and velocity are all extrapolated based on the current time since that data was stored. There is no server-side KSP game running all the time, you're simply seeing various states projected out to real time. This image will provide an example of how the Operation Tracker's calculations match up to what is happening at that same point in time during the game:
In addition to letting you know where a vessel or body is or what a crew member is currently doing, the Operations Tracker also provides additional information to help keep track of missions and generally help you to stay on top of what's going on in the Kerbol System (and beyond?)
For more on how KSA operations work, see our About page.
For every page in the Ops Tracker you will see a black tag icon to the right of the title. This will let you click to load content with the tags associated with the page in the KSA website (left-click) or images on flickr (right-click). Pressing the middle-mouse button will open both. You can use these references to dig even deeper into associated KSA history.
For system Orbital Views, using the tag icon will also look for references to any moons in orbit around the body. If you only want to see things from the central body, use the Body Information Dialog.
To the right of the footer is a blue link icon you can click to save a permalink to share with others. It is important to use this when sharing links to the website rather than copying what is in the URL address bar as future updates to the site could break these links. Left-clicking will save the URL as-is while right-clicking will ensure that a ut parameter is added to the URL with the current time shown on the Clock.
If you are on a mobile touchscreen device the Ops Tracker does its best to accommodate by detecting this and altering inputs accordingly. Most things that require a cursor hover can be interacted with via a tap to display and a tap to hide, while clicking and dragging can be emulated with swipes. Some devices support a two-finger tap for a right click.
The Ops Tracker no longer uses cookies and instead saves data to local storage. This data is used to track when you last visited and recall your social platform preference. It also keeps tabs on what vessels/crew you have visited so it can tell whether there is updated data it should notify you about. There is absolutely no personal or sensitive information used by the Ops Tracker at all let alone kept in local storage.
The Ops Tracker allows your system to cache any of the data that is downloaded to display information on vessels/crew/ATN catalog/etc but it does attach a date to each fetch call so at most you will be re-downloading files from the server once per day. This is to ensure you have the latest data updates.