Moving ground track
Real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction
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#36 Moving ground track
Currently you have to wait for the satellite object to reach the end of the orbit or ground track line for it to re-draw. Is it possible to get the ground track to re-draw in real time. Go forward half an orbit and back half an orbit. Make the ground track update in real time.
It is possible but it will require some non-trivial rewrite of the code to do it properly. The calculation is quite CPU intensive so doing it in real time would be a bad idea.
Note that you can chose to show the ground track for more than one orbit in which case it will not wait until the end of the orbit.