Re: Provision of Orbital Data

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At 10:43 18/06/98 -0500, Mike McCants wrote:
>I have discovered that the full 8000+ tle elsets are available
>in the STK ftp area.  Apparently this "database" is updated
>once a week.  
>
>The "PC" path is:
>
>ftp://ftp.stk.com/dist/satdb/stkAllTLE40.ZIP
I queried Analytic Graphics about the source of the database,
and got this reply

>Dear Mr. Beresford,

>The database information Analytical Graphics uses is updated from a source
>that has a contract with Norad.
So one can assume they have permission to distribute,
and I do have STK on my machine.
incidentally web page actually says its updated 3 times a week.
Tony Beresford

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