Re: [Xplanet-development] TLE Files?

[Phil E. <ph...@li...>]

On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 5:14 am, Mcleod, Ian wrote:
> Where can one get TLE files (Xplanet needs two files?) for satellites, =
etc
> and updated files for Earth quakes, volcanoes and so on..
>

Here's a little shell script that works for me - I grab updated TLE's eac=
h day=20
to feed the copy of Dave Ransoms STSPLUS that I run under dosemu on my=20
Mandrake 9.0 box:

-----begin-----
#!/bin/bash
# get latest TLE data
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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#
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, U=
SA.
#
# Copyright (C)2003 Phil Edwards, ph...@li...

FTPHOST=3Dftp.iastate.edu
REMPATH=3D/pub/stsdata
LOCPATH=3D~/mydos/dosemu/freedos/stsplus/tle

ORIGIN=3D`pwd`

# get the latest files from the FTP server
cd $LOCPATH

cat <<-EOF | ftp -v -i -n $FTPHOST
        user anonymous ph...@li...
        bin
        hash
        cd $REMPATH
        mget tle*.zip
        bye
EOF

# unzip the files we just downloaded
for i in *.zip; do
        unzip $i
        rm -f $i
done

# and sort out which is the newest
for i in `ls -1rt *.TXT`; do
        mv -f $i tle-new.txt
done

cd $ORIGIN
------end------

You'll probably need to pull out just the TLE sets for the satellites you=
're=20
interested in - I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader!

> I'm behind a corporate firewall and would like all this really interest=
ing
> stuff on my desktop to make my day in my cubicle a little more
> interesting..
>

:-)


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Regards

Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK