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
Michael, Tell me about it. I have Nova set for auto download on open, and vooooila!! It's gone!! Is there any way to recreate nasa.dat?
73... Jon W1MNK
PS About Nova... one of the few apps that I have running every day, all day. I can't live without it. I'm anxiously awaiting your new app, whenever that takes place. Michael R. Owen wrote:
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
Try getting replacement keps from AMSAT.ORG.
...Pete, N8PB
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Maguire" w1mnk@tampabay.rr.com To: nlsa@nlsa.com Cc: "NOVA NET" nova-net@nlsa.com; AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [Nova-Net] Space-Track Keplerian elements
Michael, Tell me about it. I have Nova set for auto download on open, and vooooila!! It's gone!! Is there any way to recreate nasa.dat?
73... Jon W1MNK
PS About Nova... one of the few apps that I have running every day, all day. I can't live without it. I'm anxiously awaiting your new app, whenever that takes place. Michael R. Owen wrote:
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
Nova-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/nova-net-help.html
Mike,
One can imagine NASA calling up NORAD to find out why they can't get keps for the STS and ISS. There is almost a Monty Python skit in there somewhere.
Alan WA4SCA
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