Good morning Late last night ( mine) I got an email from Spacetrack - as Im sure all contributors to the SeeSat discussion got - about this new category and tried it. Probably I did not do something exactly correct and initially could not find the file that I had downloaded. It was obvious something had happened but where had it gone? After some hunting I found it and it was about 11 Mbytes in size. Examination of the file shows its full of data with the elements given in two formats and apparently as one enormous long string. As it stands its not much use so a program will have to be written to extract the data required by looking for and retaining every occurance of data for TLE_LINE1 and TLE_LINE2 for each satellite. I believe I can write such a program with my limited knowledge of programing but I am interested to know if any other users of this new category have the same problem of file location and a long string or are my "problems" caused by something I did wrong ? (most probably) For example the location of my file was found in: C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\local settings\ApplicationData\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles\ef64bj0m.default\Cache\9'\C9 (probably typed that with an error or two but not that important as others will probably have something different) so it stored it in the cache apparently. Im quite happy to write a program for myself to extract the required data but Im sure the more proficient programmers could do it a lot simpler than I could do and a much better job. (Hint Simone ? :-))))))) I am using Windows XP/Firefox . Once Ive had my breakfast I will look at the file and see if there are any carriage returns and line feeds that will make extraction easier. I would appreciate it very much if any others who have tried this had an experience different to mine. It looks like it contains what we need- so I appreciate what Spacetrack is doing and welcome the addition of the three line format in due course -- again one could add the satellite identification (common name etc) with software to the current system but Im sure it would be better if it was done at SpaceTrack. I anticipate only downloading the file once every few days. Now to go and wake my wife up and tell her its breakfast time... Cheers Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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