Roger wrote: >>Each day I get compilations of TLEs from Space-Track >>and Mike McCants' classfd.zip. What do you find best >>to automate these tasks? >> >>* Login to Space-Track >>* Get the whole-catalog zip file (a different name >>each day) >>* Maybe get the TIP upcoming decayers if there are any >>* Logout >>* Get Mike McCants' classfd.zip >>* Unzip these >>* Merge the TLE files into one big TLE compilation >>* Run the predictions using Rob Matson's Skymap >> >>I could do this all using batch files or Perl scripts, >>but would welcome any existing solutions! >> >> >> > >You mention Perl, are you running linux? >I have a batch script that grabs what I want from celestrak.com I just >run it whenever I want to update the list. It just uses wget to retrieve >the data and dump it in a file. >I use gpredict for viewing the predictions. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > > You might have a look at this perl module: http://search.cpan.org/~wyant/Astro-SpaceTrack-0.013/bin/SpaceTrack ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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