[amsat-bb] A couple of tracking API's under test now on www.amsat.org

[Heimir Thor Sverrisson]

Awesome work Joe!
Glad UMA has such a lousy orientation :-)
/Heimir W1ANT

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:41 PM Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> I was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus with my kid today
> for transfer student orientation.   I played hooky from the family and
> friends tour when I discovered that we did not get to visit anything
> interesting like the steam plant,   They were supposed to feed us, but I
> was busy cutting code.  Somebody owes me lunch at the next Symposium.
>
> Use www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?objects<
> http://www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?objects> to get a list of
> object name/object number pairs.
>
> Select a name from the list returned from above and use a Maidenhead grid
> square to specify the location.    This will give you summary info on the
> next 10 passes for that location.
> www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?location=II42&object=ISS<
> http://www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?location=fn42&object=ISS>
>
> de KM1P Joe
>
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