Re: Sophisticated questions concerning satellite tracking

From: Chris Kuethe via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:16:55 -0700
I don't know of an existing open source program that will tell you,
for a particular place and time, which spy satellites you need to be
worried about.

You could write one in python in a couple of hours. Fetching TLEs and
calculating satellites visible from a place at a time using urllib and
pyEphem takes less than 80 lines. Figuring out FOV will probably be
another 100 lines or so.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:56 PM, James Lloyd via Seesat-l
<seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the German magazine "Der Spiegel" reports about sovjet activities in syria by comparing satellite images taken on Sept,4th & Sept, 15th .  Using Heavens-Above.com by try & error I guess the images on both Sept, 4th & 15th were taken with Lacrosse5.
>
> However thie teadious work puts up the question whether there is any software available to answer such sophisticated questions like "Which satellite out of a certain set had a certain FoV concerning a certain position within a certain timespam" without having to go manually through all possible candidates ?"
>
> Kind Regards,
> J.
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