> IMHO...you can annotate the TLE all you want. If you match the FOUO TLE, > you > better have calcs ready for presentation and expect to be booted from the > Space-Track website. Since we have no knowledge of why the restrictions are being imposed, we can only go on what seems generally reasonable(*). If the powers that be at Space Track decide to cut off someone's access for any reason or none, that's their business and they owe no explanation to anyone. It should be pointed out that the US government, first through OIG and now at Space Track, has been and is being extraordinarily generous in sharing such information. No other government or entity (other than the amateurs) has made even the first step in such a direction(**) . (*) As an archivist, I would hope that Space Track would permit free use and dissemination of TLEs of more than a certain age. What "a certain age" might be depends on their unknown goals and desires, but I'd suggest a year or two old might be reasonable. (**) Most regrettably, IMO. It would be good if Russia or, soon, France were to be as enlightened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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