Questions tagged [python]
Questions about the use of the Python programming language for projects directly related to Space Exploration as defined in the help center.
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How to perform a Burn Operation in GMAT via python api
'm testing the python api of GMAT (2022). I'm able to instantiate a satellite object and do propagation in steps. I would like to include an instant burn operation in the simulation, but the code just ...
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Calculating and Drawing the orbit of a body in a 2D gravity simulation in python
I'm making a space exploration game and its in a 2d plane so no z axis, and I'm using Newton's law of universal gravity, I would really like to calculate anddraw the predicted trajectory of a body, ...
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TEME state vector to TLE orbital elements
I was looking at time series of some TLE parameter(semimajor axis, inclination, etc..) and I wanted to how those parameters evolve between measured time points.
So i decided to feed TLE element to ...
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How is this estimation so off?
Based on the recent NASA's DART mission, I wrote some code to calculate the satellite's distance and relative velocity based on the the size of Dismorphos (the target asteroid) on the camera frame. ...
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Running STK scenario with Python integration
I have created a scenario in STK 12.4 with a couple of satellites that will pass over a target location. I want to have a function that is called while the scenario is running.
Does the Python API ...
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Python - Beyond Orbit raises TleParseError for valid TLE [closed]
I've been using the example script for ground track from the beyond library documentation.
I've been using TLEs from Celestrak's set of NOAA satellite TLEs, located here.
This was working fine until I ...
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Keplerian Orbital Elements to Cartesian Coordinates issue with inclination, and possibly other stuff
this is the first time I am asking for help on this site, so if I format badly, or need to add/change something, let me know.
I am currently trying to make a game using python (python powered board ...
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Visualizing halo orbits
I'd like to visualize JWST's orbit (or any halo orbit that resembles it) preferably in Python. Does anyone have any code or resource I could read? Thanks in advance!
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Python orbit simulation using TLE-tools and poliastro
I have a source of satellite TLE data - similar to space-track.org. For testing purposes I would like to create a simulation that doesnt rely on the real source of data. I was able to download a json ...
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Modelling ISS orbit in GMAT
I am a complete newbie in all things space related. I am trying to work out how I can model the orbit of the ISS in the NASA open source tool GMAT.
I can get the TLE for ISS (ZAYRA) from space-track....
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iod.lambert method does not work in poliastro 0.14.0 and 0.16.3 in Windows 10 (?) [closed]
I try to reproduce the "Analyzing the Parker Solar Probe flybys" example from the page https://docs.poliastro.space/en/latest/examples/Analyzing%20the%20Parker%20Solar%20Probe%20flybys.html,
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GMAT Python API No Convergence
I’m currently using the GMAT Python API in order to set and run my GMAT scripts, but am running into a problem where my scripts do not converge based on certain inputs.
Is there a way in the Python ...
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Is there a python library to determine the position of a satellite at a given time from TLE data excluding the Satellite catalog number?
Or perhaps some simple code or formula that achieves this. I've used pyephem but it requires a Satellite catalog number.
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TLE Need help in understanding the position vector
I tried to take a TLE of an elliptical orbit and tried to calculate the position of the satellite for the next 16 hours. I understood that the position is an (x,y,z) vector which I can get in a ...
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GMAT: How to Access startup file variables such as PYTHON_MODULE_PATH?
I use the python interface quite frequently and read-in tables of control variables created by another standalone module. I need to be sure that a file created by the standalone python module can be ...
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satellite ground track calculation
I'm trying to calculate the ground track of an earth-orbiting satellite (Longitude, latitude)
I found this handy way on the documentation but it's good when trying to find a single point what if I'm ...
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How might an "imminent Starlink reentry in your area" alerting script work?
The video below Space debris over Puerto Rico (2/7/2022) SAC seems likely to show one or more reentering Starlink satellites from the 40 "Starlost" lost to atmospheric heating due to a ...
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How is an input card for SGP4/other astro standards packages crafted?
I've read through the SGP4 documentation at least 5 times, and I swear the only reference it makes to the construction of an input card is "just look at the examples". For Sgp4Prop, it ...
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Python: Satellite and/or payload class
I am very familiar with the python package poliastro and am wondering if there are any Python packages out there that have a "satellite" type class already?
My thought is if someone wants to ...
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When will the jwst python library have live data for the general public to work with in its data pipelines?
The Space Science Telescope Institute has put out a python library called JWST for science observations from James Webb Space Telescope.
When will the general public be able to look at "live"...
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Why can n2yo somehow interpret this TLE but Skyfield can't? Why does it return nans and zeros for position?
@Rafa pointed out that there is at least one officially released TLE for the JWST mission after it left Earth orbit, and here's the latest one at n2yo.com:
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calculating satellite position and velocity from TLE
I'm trying to calculate satellite orbit from the TLE set
at first, I used several libraries including SGP4, Skyfiled to get the initial position and velocity of the satellite at the epoch time
I know ...
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How can I find the old reference orbit for JWST (from 2014) and get AltAz positions from Earth without learning Spice? Can Horizons do it? Can Python?
In this ancient 2017 answer to What happens to JWST after it runs out of propellant? I've plotted an eleven year long reference orbit for JWST that was available form Horizons at the time.
Now that ...
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Failing at getting apogee and perigee from TLE
At Celestrak, the current orbit for ISS is currently listed as 423x417 km, but if I'm getting the TLE data from Celestrak and use orb.get_lonlatalt(now) from ...
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Track a satellite using python
I tried tracking a satellite - or rather confirming the data I got from the AMSAT pass prediction web page - using python, more precisly the sgp4 and navpy packages.
Now I don't really now what I'm ...
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Calculating Which Satellite Passes are Visible - Need help
I am a beginner Python programmer. I am trying to get the code in the article "Calculating which satellites are visible" to function without success. My plan is to identify satellites that ...
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How to calculate the phase angle between satellite and sun with the use of skyfield
With the discussion that took place on answer(s) to How to calculate cone angle between two satellites given their look angles? I would like to ask if my proposal solving that question works like ...
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Has Skyfield or any other SGP4-capable open-source Python package yet wrapped/implemented the new, improved SGP4 (version 8+)?
The first release on Github was in 2014. I have noticed Brandon Rhodes has contributed quite a bit to the Skyfield source code, so I will tag him here and in a comment.
EDIT: I changed the title to ...
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Alfonso Gonzalezs Orbital mechanics simulation
I basically copied all the code on Orbital Mechanics Series of Alfonso Gonzalez (because I really don't have any experience with coding, but would like to in the future) on Youtube (for a school ...
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GMAT compilation does not generate gui
I am compiling GMAT 2020a on opensuse linux from source code downloaded from sourceforge.
I have gotten the compilation completed. Ran ok, except the /bin ...
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Coordinate systems for state vectors
I am currently working on a project from this book. In appendix D, they provide a few projects that can be coded as a review of all the material in the book. I finished the first project, Site/Track ...
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Why did my vis-viva math solution get so close despite being wrong? Under what conditions would it have been a good approximation?
I tried to answer Equation for Velocity and distance from Sun of a solar sail powered spacecraft but I'm missing something.
I set up a math solution and got about 0.4 year to reach zero velocity based ...
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GMAT - Locating inter-spacecraft contact instead of spacecraft to ground station
GMAT implements two "event locators" that find eclipse times and line of sight intervals. However, this only lets you analyse data between a ground station and a spacecraft.
Is there a way ...
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Local observer coordinate system at satellite panel (LVLH coordinate system)
In skyfield I want to calculate alt-az distance from one reference satellite to next (for antenna pointing simulation).
My current workaround is to create the reference observer at sat1 height and ...
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Skyfield, how to use https:// instead of ftp://?
Using skyfield I get the error :
OSError: cannot get ftp://cddis.nasa.gov/products/iers/deltat.data because <urlopen error ftp error: TimeoutError(10060, 'Ein Verbindungsversuch ist fehlgeschlagen, ...
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How to solve the two-body problem in the ECI frame through numerical integration?
I need to know how to solve two-body problem by solving a system of first order equation derived from the equation below.
$$\ddot{\mathbf{r}} = -\frac{\mu}{r^3}\mathbf{r}$$
How do I go about this, and ...
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How much delta-v have I used here? What's the "official" equation for delta-v from parametric thrust?
I took a break from Stack Exchange, jumped in my spacecar and flew the following squiggle:
$$a_x = \cos(10 \ t)$$
$$a_y = \sin(5 \ t)$$
$$a_z = \cos(2 \ t)$$
starting at ...
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Keplerian to cartesian elements issue
I am trying to convert between keplerian orbital elements to cartesian position and velocity but something is going wrong. The issue is that I (as a check) compute some keplerian orbital elements with ...
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Get dates when a satellite has performed maneuver from historical TLE data (python)?
I have been recently acquainted with orbital mechanics and am trying to do some analysis on the subject. Since I don't have subject matter expertise, I am at a crossroads with trying to decide that ...
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Simulating engine burn with scipy ode solve
I'm using ODE solver to calculate complex trajectories.
A simplified setup is like this:
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Visualising orbits from different viewpoints in Python
I have a python program that I use to visualise a planetary orbital system.
I convert the orbits to xyz coordinates and then have a basic orrery that views the system from 'above', by simply plotting ...
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How to change RAAN with 250 m/s DV?
I'm performing a transfer between 2 orbits with different RAAN (other orbital parameters are same). The perigee altitude of the orbits is 1000km, the apogee is <...
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Lambert method for in-plane transfer
I'm trying to solve the transfer between a circular orbit with 200km radius and an orbit with 200km perigee and 8000km apogee.
The optimal transfer is hoffman, however, izzo.lambert from poliastro ...
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Need javascript to solve xyz for a kepler
I have a python program that I use to calculate the xyz positions of a point in a kepler orbit.
https://github.com/sczesla/PyAstronomy/blob/master/src/pyasl/asl/keplerOrbit.py
It takes the following ...
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Cartesian vectors to keplerian orbital elements of binary system
I am looking to code a a function that converts my 3d position and 3d velocity of a binary system into keplerian orbital elements of the system. I have seen a few other posts on this but they always ...
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How to get lunar L, B, C parameters from the Moon's 3x3 rotation matrix from the Python package Skyfield?
Answers to What are the “Moon L, B, C” angles shown in this solar eclipse simulation? explain that L and B (or "l" and "b") are the "selenographic coordinates of the Moon's apparent center" (latitude ...
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Python Libraries: Numerical Propagators and Access Calculations
I have written some of my own code in Matlab that performs two body unperturbed as well as J2 perturbed orbit propagation. I am shifting to a new environment that requires the use of Python, and can't ...
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What are the data mining platform does Space agencies such as Nasa or SpaceX use?
What are the data mining platform does Space agencies such as Nasa or SpaceX use? Just a few would be helpful. This is for data mining and data analysis purpose.
In general, i was looking something ...
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How can I plot satellite's trajectory from three different TLEs to detect any deviation on path with time?
I have obtained TLE information of a satellite from space-track.org for three different times. I am trying to study any deviation of the satellite trajectory from its usual path. Here I am comparing ...
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Controlling suicide burn landing location in a python simulation?
I recently asked a question in stackoverflow about Simulation of suicide burn in openai-gym's LunarLander. Sadly most of my assumptions about suicide burn implementaion were wrong but the answer given ...
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