[amsat-bb] AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 13, Issue 168
Todd W Deckard
twdeckard at earthlink.net
Sat May 19 12:03:59 UTC 2018
mailing list bounced my pedantic response due to attached image size ...
here’s a link to a parallel thread that has the image of ISS altitude over time.
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/need-help-with-ascending-node.549308http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/need-help-with-ascending-node.549308//
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> On May 19, 2018, at 6:43 AM, Todd W Deckard <twdeckard at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> As an aside, the ISS makes an adjustment approximately once a month. They operate at a higher altitude now that the shuttle is no longer used for resupply. Here is a plot from heavens-above.
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> <image1.png>
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> I have observed that if you are using an Arduino or another processor with single precision math, the computed results age very quickly for any LEO and practically I must update every few days.
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> if you are using a more respectable math engine and are only concerned about the orbital elements; the error in the satellite position is approximately a kilometer at the epoch of the TLE. Then the simplified perturbation model (SPG4) used by the common software we use loses about 1-2km a day.
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> all of this is a bit pedantic if you are hand pointing an antenna in the noble tradition ...
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> best
> Todd
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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