I love the terminal aspect & theme interpretation of connecting to a distant satellite.
It takes a few runs to get all the controls are running the help pages will just straightaway make the ship burn up.
To really make the terminal vibe grow you could have made it possible to use up arrow to get command history, maybe a | grep feature to prevent a lot of terminal output too.
In the current state it all boils down to use "status, heater & align" , using stuff like the helps & checkdownload just wastes precious time.
I do however see this turn into a bigger "NASA satelite commander" game where you start with a small satellite like this one and build up to bigger & bigger satellites with more to take into account.
I also recorded all of my gameplay, feel free to reach out on Discord if you want to see it; I also do think align command has a bug, when going into the positives you always have a "worse connection" even if your error shows up as 0° or 0.1°, got me confused for a while until I actually started reading the numbers and running some tests.
Still, as a longtime Linux user, doing a lot of cli & ssh based stuff this game was a fun entry to see! :D
99% Signal integrity ftw :P