The recent thread about tracking BOBCAT-1, got me to thinking of this old script I wrote ages ago, to track satellites in Google Earth.  To do this, I wrote a bit of Python that would obtain keps from amsat or space track and then carefully craft and host a kml file locally.  The user could then drag this into Google Earth to track in near-realtime.  It was configurable and really only driven by one python file and one config file.  I had posted about it to the -bb a couple times since then but I hadn't really maintained the project.  I found one repository on GitHub, that u0m3 had created.  I forked (my own) project a few minutes ago from his repo and figured I could start maintaining it again.  I just made the following updates:

- supports amsats latest bare url

- supports the latest spacetrack api

- you can now plot / resolve satellite names via regex (so say all AO-* or STARLINK-*)

If you take it for a spin, let me know what you think:

https://github.com/josepharmbruster/ge-satellite-tracker

The core of this could easily be integrated with rigctl or any other mapping app for tracking purposes, if someone wanted to roll their own.

73's

Joseph Armbruster

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