Re: generating new TLEs and finding lost satellites...

From: Kevin Fetter (kevin_fetter@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 08:54:35 EDT

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    There is a program called first orb by Rainer Kracht which takes the 
    observations in R.A and Dec and generates a orbit from them.
    
    It can be downloaded off a ftp server
    
    ftp://ftp.satellite.eu.org/pub/sat/programs/ibmpc
    
    Look for something called first.exe
    
    Then you use a program like mike mccants fitelem program, to improve the 
    orbit based on those observations
    
    Fitelem can be found here
    
    http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/programs/index.html
    
    Have fun, I have tried to generate an orbit from observations and fail.
    
    Kevin
    
    
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