We currently point to the old website (simply disabled the portions that used the database causing errors earlier in the year). This way we can use the information from the older website until it can be ported over to the new website (which is actually very easy but someone needs to do it! hint hint for any potential volunteers). Those of us volunteering for the website over the Summer work pushed to get the functioning website up and running on Wordpress but in cases such as mine I've refocused most of my time to Fox-1 engineering (free time that is) to keep that moving along. There's still valuable kep information regarding what they are and how they are derived. I agree we need to figure out the actual element issue and it's been a recent topic for the website volunteers since the AO-73 launch. Suggestions are always welcome and help bring attention to something us volunteers may be missing.
Bryce KB1LQC
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Wagener wageners@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Clint,
help me understand why you would go to the AMSAT website for keps?
AMSAT will use keps that are available for download from another source be it
celestrak
or space-track
and someone at AMSAT (e.g. volunteer) has to publish those on the AMSAT website. There will always be a delay since you add another step in the process.
Use the most up to date source (see above). My point of view, AMSAT should not be publishing keps (unless they are the only ones getting them directly from the source for a brand new satellite and have a mechanism in place to update them immediately once they change) but rather pointing to the best source.
Stefan, VE4NSA
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Clint Bradford <clintbradford@mac.com
wrote:
Two hours ago, I went to the AMSAT.org site, and checked on the Keplerian data files that were available.
But I just now clicked on it, and it throws me to the 2005-era Keps page
with the light blue background ...
My browser's cache isn't THAT old ...
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