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Short-bus / pilomar

RaspberryPi based miniature observatory
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Replace hardcoded TLE data for earth satellites #18

Closed Short-bus closed 10 months ago

Short-bus commented 1 year ago

Earth satellites (International Space Station, Chinese Space Station etc) use hardcoded TLE data downloaded manually from the web and updated directly in the source code. Replace this with an automatically updating solution directly from a web feed. Make the selection of earth satellites more standard just like other target types too.

Short-bus commented 1 year ago

Created Celestrak class. This downloads the TLE data from the Celestrak publicly available data and caches locally to reduce demand on their servers. Only refreshes from the live servers every 5 days. This makes a whole list of earth satellites available to the program and removes the hardcoding.

Short-bus commented 10 months ago

Summer2023 update includes this feature.