Hi Jeff,
SatPC32
reads Keplerian data files that conform to the TLE
standard (now also files with the new CSV, KVN and XML
formats, which can be downloaded from the Celestrak
website). As you know,
SatPC32 has been working with nasa.all for about 20 years.
Recently,
however, the format of nasa.all has changed: So far, the
data record looked like this (in editors or text
programs):
ISS
1 25544U 98067A 22230.93505244 .00004937 00000-0
93709-4 0 9996
2 25544 51.6434 25.7288 0005501 134.7627 332.5275
15.50223534354917
This is also the format of all other TLE files I know,
e.g. nasabare.txt or the Celestrak TLE files.
The current nasa.all files look like
this:
ISS
1 25544U 98067A 22230.93505244 .00004937 00000-0
93709-4 0 9996
2 25544 51.6434 25.7288 0005501 134.7627 332.5275
15.50223534354917
Because of the blank lines between
the satellite name and data line 1 and between data
lines 1 and 2, SatPC32 does not recognize the file
as a valid TLE file. So far I do not know why the
change was made and whether it will stay
that way and also
not whether the format still corresponds to
the TLE standard. Since there are
replacement options - e.g. nasabare.txt
contains exactly the same satellites as
nasa.all - I will not change anything on
SatPC32 for the time being.
73s, Erich, DK1TB
Several of us that talk on the linear birds in the morning have noticed that SatPC32's Satellites, Update Keps, selected keps file, routine returns either a 'No Keplerian data found!' or a 'Download failed' error. I had to manually copy and paste the kep data from the AMSAT site to get a fresh set. I tried this on two different PC's here. As I haven't updated any of my s/w on this end I'm assuming this is an issue on the AMSAT kep site. Anyone know what's going on here ?
73 Jeff kb2m
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