pvtmakela@cc.helsinki.fi (11/22/90)
Archive-name: traksat/21-Nov-90 Original-posting-by: pvtmakela@cc.helsinki.fi Original-subject: Re: Satellite tracking programs.. Archive-site: funic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] Archive-directory: /pub/astro/pc-satel Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1699@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>, martyt@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (Marty Tippin) writes: > I saw the 'orbital elements' for the shuttle, but they made no sense to me - > I suppose they are used for input to some kind of satellite tracking program, > so can anyone recommend a particular public domain program of this type? There are many satellite tracking programs as public domain or shareware. In my opionion, one of the best ones is called TrakSat. It has very many functions and it can use the NASA satellite predictions. TrakSat and many other possible tracking programs are available in anonymous-ftp site funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) in directory ..pub/astro/pc-satel. Does anybody know, is there any place where the latest NASA predictions can be found (eg. with ftp). Veikko Makela -------------------------------------- pvtmakela@CC.Helsinki.FI Veikko.Makela@f861.n515.z2.fidonet.org --------------------------------------