koansys / isat

Satellite Orbit Tracker: implement most-current SGP models and algorithms in JavaScript, then use to visualize hundreds of satellites with any browser
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Change info on details panel #138

Open shentonfreude opened 11 years ago

shentonfreude commented 11 years ago

The satellite-centric X,Y,Z are useless, remove them.

We do want lat/lon and Altitude (Km and miles(?)), Velocity (Km and miles/sec(?))

Change ID to "NORAD ID". Add "International Designator" from TLE Add "Inclination" from TLE Add "Eccentricity" from TLE (will have to add in decimal point, research where) Orbits per day: from TLE: Mean Motion Revolution Number: from TLE

Compare what we're showing to what N2YO provides, for example.

See this excellent color coded resource http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/SSOP_Help/tle_def.html

Would be nice if we could get the satellite full-name but we'd need more data than provided by the TLEs. If we're gonna ask a service like Science or NSSDC, let's do that later and also grab an image of the satellite; don't worry about it now. We also can't get phase (operating, past) from TLE.