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Subj: Keplerian Elements Now Available for PDA
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 163.09
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
June 12, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-163.09
For those of you using PocketSat or PocketSat+ satellite tracking
program for PalmOS PDAs, the weekly Keplerian elements bulletins from
AMSAT are now available in PDB format for direct import into the
program. The PDB file will be updated automatically each week,
shortly after the Keplerian elements bulletins go out to the KEPS
mailing list. (This is permitted as a secondary redistribution of the
AMSAT Keps bulletins.)
You can get the weekly PDB file with a web browser from:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/amsat.pdb
... or you can use an FTP program to get them from host
ftp.amsat.org, directory /amsat/keps/current, filename amsat.pdb.
Username "anonymous", and use your email address for the password.
Download in binary mode.
For info on PocketSat and PocketSat+, including instructions on how
to import elements from a PDB file, see the BigFatTail Productions
web site at http://www.bigfattail.com (not affiliated with AMSAT).
For other programs, the same directory contains the elements in three
other formats: AMSAT verbose format and NASA two-line format, both
formatted as packet BBS bulletins, and NASA two-line format stripped
of all extraneous text. Here are the URLs for those formats:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/amsat.all
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt
One of these formats should satisfy most satellite tracking programs.
For more about Keplerian elements in general, see
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/keps.php
[ANS thanks Paul, KB5MU for the above information]
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