Re: Automating predictions

From: Mark Hanning-Lee (markhl@prodigy.net)
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 01:11:12 EST

  • Next message: Roger: "Re: Automating predictions"

    Thanks for the suggestions! My colleagues have
    recommended ActivePerl under Windows, and it worked
    for me:
    http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?mp=1 .
    
    Mark
    
    --- Roger <roger@efn.org> wrote:
    
    > > Each day I get compilations of TLEs from
    > Space-Track
    > > and Mike McCants' classfd.zip. What do you find
    > best
    > > to automate these tasks?
    > >
    > > * Login to Space-Track
    > > * Get the whole-catalog zip file (a different name
    > > each day)
    > > * Maybe get the TIP upcoming decayers if there are
    > any
    > > * Logout
    > > * Get Mike McCants' classfd.zip
    > > * Unzip these
    > > * Merge the TLE files into one big TLE compilation
    > > * Run the predictions using Rob Matson's Skymap
    > >
    > > I could do this all using batch files or Perl
    > scripts,
    > > but would welcome any existing solutions!
    > >
    > 
    > You mention Perl, are you running linux?
    > I have a batch script that grabs what I want from
    > celestrak.com  I just
    > run it whenever I want to update the list.  It just
    > uses wget to retrieve
    > the data and dump it in a file.
    > I use gpredict for viewing the predictions.
    > 
    
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