> Each day I get compilations of TLEs from Space-Track > and Mike McCants' classfd.zip. What do you find best > to automate these tasks? > > * Login to Space-Track > * Get the whole-catalog zip file (a different name > each day) > * Maybe get the TIP upcoming decayers if there are any > * Logout > * Get Mike McCants' classfd.zip > * Unzip these > * Merge the TLE files into one big TLE compilation > * Run the predictions using Rob Matson's Skymap > > I could do this all using batch files or Perl scripts, > but would welcome any existing solutions! > You mention Perl, are you running linux? I have a batch script that grabs what I want from celestrak.com I just run it whenever I want to update the list. It just uses wget to retrieve the data and dump it in a file. I use gpredict for viewing the predictions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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