[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Keplerian Element Analysis - images fixed!

[Joseph Armbruster]

Whoops!  Lesson learned, do NOT copy / paste images into Google Blogger or the images will point to the temporary files on your file system.

I thought it was uploading them!  Anyhow, you should be able to see the images now.

Joe


On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Joseph Armbruster wrote:

> Everyone,
> 
> I started digging into the ARISSat-1 Keplerian Elements in more details.  See some of my effort here:
> 
> http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2012/02/arissat-1-keplerian-element-analysis.html
> 
> Right now I am generating some basic plots but I wish to do much more with this, such as:
> 
> - intersect this with the telemetry data - there are many ways to do this the first will be plotting temperature values along the line of orbit as the satellite entered / exited eclipse
> - maybe generate a few fly-by videos that show line-of-site to a particular station that was receiving telemetry / sstv at that particular time
> 
> If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to share them.  I am really excited right now because I am using my code and made my first correct plots this evening!
> 
> If we knew (or could predict) the satellites orientation at a particular moment, I could drop in a model of ARISSat-1 into the scene and orient it correctly.
> 
> I think this will be a great way to interactively visualize what happened during the satellites lifetime.
> 
> Joseph Armbruster, KJ4JIO