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- No information on signal strength is provided until a signal is resolved.
- No info on resolution progress is provided in a way accessible to logic automation. This is likely because resolution progress rate could be used to estimate contact angle indirectly resulting in resolution exploits.
- Once resolution is complete, the signal strength value is updated from -1 to the angle between the dish and its contact in degrees. Unlike pre-terrain-update guides, lower signal strength values after resolution result in faster resolution times.
- Contacts move (slowly) in the sky. Restarting a resolution process under the same dish angle will result in different contact angles being returned.
- Contact celestial positions can be triangulated by taking scans from different orientations:
   - 1 resolution constrains the target's position at a given timeframe to a circumference in the sky.
   - 2 resolutions from different orientations constrain the target's position to 2 points in the sky (assuming the circumferences from both resolutions intersect).
   - 3 resolutions from different orientations constrain the target's position to a point in the sky (assuming resolution orientations are not coplanar).

Math can be used to track down those points. Our goal is to calculate the celestial angles at which the circumferences intersect, and point the dish at them. Even though the contact moves, as the error gets smaller resolutions can be made faster.