When launching my first rocket with the satellite, I get a notification about establishing connection, the game dims, updates are stopped and controls other than the map are disabled. Directions (WASD) do not work in normal or map view, but scrolling does. Any thoughts on how I can continue my run? I looked into mod compatibility and did not see anything that should pose a problem.

Hey, thanks for the report - that sounds very strange! Can you save in this state? Is it reproducible? Perhaps you accidentally pressed Shift+Space to pause the game?

I can save, but on load it's a blank screen. Going back to autosave and launching the satellite again reproduces the problem. Definitely not Shift+Space. You can download the save here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eY7ZOs7wrRGwgumyTTTA0AgboRV3NUjX/view?usp=sharing

Just tried it, and I realise now what you are referring to! https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1238408064193794099/1294329666273804338/Screenshot_2024-10-11_at_17.02.52.png?ex=670a9def&is=67094c6f&hm=1a4711c6b6414790603872814c1c26a8f3de71458be5b18013c0938413a49e6b&

Just press Tab to clear it and you can continue :)

The message did not appear. I still feel like an idiot for not pressing Tab.

I had the ecat same isue and no message appear nor coud i make this go away by pressing tab. The workaraound that worked for me was launsching the game as a multiplayer now it never even froze.

Sorry, forgot to update this after resolving on discord.

I missed a technicality in the docs so the command to show the text window to the player fails if someone else started the game in multiplayer, you played with them, and are now playing alone in singleplayer. It failing is correct, but it freezing instead of showing a script crash is obviously a bug (https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=115881)

Yes, workaround is load the save in multiplayer until you’ve launched a rocket and research “Luna exploration”.