Alec Muffett (alecm@crypto.dircon.co.uk) wrote: > 1) Can someone please tell me what the favoured reference manual > for satellite prediction algorithms is nowadays? I'm venturing here into things whereof I know not, but anyway ... on Mike McCants' Web site there's a link to Alex Sergejew's Web site, which has an HTML version of "Spacetrack Report Number 3 from NORAD" (which is on Celestrak in *.pdf and LaTeX). Sergejew says that it "is a vital exposition of the mathematics behind satellite orbital prediction and the application of Keplerian elements. For example, most amateur satellite tracking programs use one or more of the models described in this report or simplified variants of these." Here's the URL: http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/metsat/spacetrk.html I believe there's been some discussion here on SeeSat in the past couple of years about at least a couple of mistakes in some of the models.... No ETS 6 for us here in Austin last night due to rain. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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