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brandon-rhodes
python-sgp4
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brandon-rhodes / python-sgp4

python-sgp4

Python version of the SGP4 satellite position library

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Python version of the SGP4 satellite position library

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Observed mentions: 2019-08-26 09:03:47 UTC to 2019-08-26 15:58:40 UTC.

012019-08-26 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 26, 09:002019-08-26 10:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-26 11:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-26 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 26, 12:002019-08-26 13:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-26 14:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-26 15:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-26 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 26, 15:00

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Aug 26, 09:002019-08-26 09:00:00 UTC2019-08-26 10:00:00 UTC101
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Aug 26, 11:002019-08-26 11:00:00 UTC2019-08-26 12:00:00 UTC000
Aug 26, 12:002019-08-26 12:00:00 UTC2019-08-26 13:00:00 UTC000
Aug 26, 13:002019-08-26 13:00:00 UTC2019-08-26 14:00:00 UTC000
Aug 26, 14:002019-08-26 14:00:00 UTC2019-08-26 15:00:00 UTC000
Aug 26, 15:002019-08-26 15:00:00 UTC2019-08-26 16:00:00 UTC101

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Most of the data is typically in a two-line element format [0]. You can grab it here https://www.space-track.org or here https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/ (although I believe the celestrak data comes from space-track, correct me if I'm wrong) The satellite positions are then estimated using an algorithm such as sgp4 implemented in quite a few languages: * https://github.com/joshuaferrara/go-satellite (<-- disclaimer: this is mine) * https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-sgp4 * https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js Check out Dr. Kelso's (he works for AGI now) original work here in Pascal, plus a few links to C++ works: https://celestrak.com/software/tskelso-sw.php [0] https://celestrak.com/columns/v04n03/
In Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer

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