Re: [Gpredict-discussion] no dragon in satellite list
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From: Charles S. <ham...@gm...> - 2012-10-11 01:20:48
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Celestrak appears to have caught up and the human name is now associated with the ID. If it does not work after a tle update, restart gpredict with a --clean-tle flag and the update the tle's over the network and the name should correct Good luck. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Patrick Strasser <oe...@wi...> wrote: > Am 10.10.2012 09:24, schrieb loprets: >> Thanks Charles, >> >> I guess that's it! Good to know NASA (or whoever maintains the data) >> do not always assign a human-readable name but something like a launch >> sequence number (?). The A thru F in my current sat data set appear to >> be artefacts of thruster utilizations, each creating a new trajectory >> for dragon on its way up to the station. However, [A-F] do not seem to >> be in chronological order as E has an altitude of 314 while writing >> this and F is at 123. So it's a little like chasing a fata morgana >> approaching iss, what a mess!!! > > Maybe it's rocket bodies (2nd, 3rd stage) or fairing cover, or just > random debris. They decay within days, months or years. > > The bigger part of space objects are these. Every satellite leaves at > least one upper stage in orbit. > > Regards > > Patrick > >> 2012/10/10, Charles Suprin <ham...@gm...>: >>> Howdy >>> >>> It is probably one of the 2012-54 [abcdef] elements. Which one would take >>> some more digging? >>> >>> Charles >>> On Oct 9, 2012 5:55 PM, "loprets" <lo...@gm...> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everybody, I have been trying to add the spacex dragon crs-1 >>>> freighter to the satellite list to watch its approach to iss from time >>>> to time. Updating the satellite data via network did not help, maybe >>>> dragon is not in the sources that gpredict polls - or I couldn't >>>> figure out the satellite's name in the list. I found it for the cots2+ >>>> flight last may so I I hope the data is there somewhere - does anybody >>>> have a suggestion? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM > Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly > what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app > Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Gpredict-discussion mailing list > Gpr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gpredict-discussion |