22 Jun
2007
22 Jun
'07
9:41 p.m.
Dear friends,
We should continue to be careful downloading Keplerian elements from Space-Track.org. All of the files there are empty, so if you have an automated downloading program like Nova, it will overwrite its Keps with zero data.
I wrote to Space-Track and they replied:
All of the bulk TLE files for 6-21-07 are empty (!)
Hello, We are having some Technical Difficulties, our Tech guy is out for a week, so please be patient. Thank you, Space-Track
I don't know how this "outage" will affect other distributors of orbital elements (i.e. Celestrak).
73, W9IP
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Michael R. Owen, Ph.D.
Northern Lights Software Associates
http://www.nlsa.com