Space Command
Project description
The space command allows to compute the position of satellites and their passes above our head.
In order to do this, it uses the beyond library.
Installation
For the stable release:: shell
$ pip install space-command
For the latest dev commit:: shell
$ pip install git+https://github.com/galactics/space-command
Features
Retrieve orbits as TLE from celestrak
$ space tle fetch
$ space tle get name ISS
ISS (ZARYA)
1 25544U 98067A 18217.29289738 .00001607 00000-0 31893-4 0 9999
2 25544 51.6423 133.9734 0005443 28.3880 115.1824 15.53801660126150Animated map showing position of a satellite (e.g. the ISS)
$ space map ISSCompute and display moon phase
$ space phase Moon --graphRetrieve Solar System bodies ephemeris
$ space planets Moon
$ space planets fetch # Retrieve planetary ephemeris
$ space planets Mars Jupiter SaturnPredict passes of planets or satellites
$ space planets Mars | space passes <station> -
$ space tle find OSCAR 7 | space passes <station> -Changelog
[0.4.2] - 2019-02-23
Added
Logging
Tests
space events subcommand computes all orbital events of a satellite (AOS/LOS, Apogee/Perigee, etc.)
space phase to compute the phase of available planets and moons
groundtracks optional on map
Removed
space moon subcommand. This is now handled by the more generic space phase
[0.4.1] - 2018-11-01
Added
TLE database dump and statistics
Station map
Stations’ characteristics defined in config file are now set as attributes of the station object
[0.4] - 2018-10-20
Added
Compute ephemeris of solar system bodies (Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Titan, etc.)
Moon phase computation
Centralized date handling, via command space clock
Allow TLE retrieval from Space-Track
Changed
Database classes are now suffixed with Db
Subcommand retrieving data from the web now use the argument fetch instead of get.
Removed
Light propagation delay no longer taken into account. The computation was tedious, and has been removed from the beyond library
[v0.3] - 2018-07-24
Added
Possibility to create your own commands with the space.command entry point.
Search TLE containing a string
Retrieve all chronological TLE of an object
space map displays real-time position of objects
Compute moon phase
Every command taking object names can also take TLE or CCSDS ephemeris via stdin
add mask handling for stations
Passes zenithal display optional
Changed
MIT license replace GPLv3
Removed
EOP database disabled by default.
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