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How did you track the locations of the satellites live?
by RspecMAuthortah 6y ago
How did you track the locations of the satellites live?
- toomuchtodo 6y ago> NORAD maintains general perturbation element sets on all resident space objects. These element sets are periodically refined so as to maintain a reasonable prediction capability on all space objects. In turn, these element sets are provided to users. The purpose of this report is to provide the user with a means of propagating these element sets in time to obtain a position and velocity of the space object. [1] For the curious, here is the wikipedia page [2] with details on the US Space Surveillance Network used to obtain this data (30+ ground-based radars and optical telescopes worldwide, plus 6 satellites in orbit). [1] https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/ https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/ (didn't link directly to the starlink txt file on purpose, link for reference only, please don't hug the site to death) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillan...
- gpm 6y agoExactly this. I grabbed a set of TLEs from celestrak (which I'm serving from my site), and then I propagate them forward with satellite-js [1] to the current date 6 times a second. [1] https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js