[amsat-bb] Historical Data download for FOX-1A?

[Bill Gaylord]

I looked it up by Norad ID. From what i know its TLE are opennly
distrobuted by space tracked because it went up with some military stuff.
Same reason it was never on CelesTrack.

KD9KCK

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 8:24 PM Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bill, it’s aka AO-85 so pretty sure the Keps can still be gotten. Old
> or new.
>
> 73,
> Mark N8MH
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:21 PM Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much! Not at my computer at the moment but i will take a
>> look in a bit.
>>
>> Btw is there a way for FoxTelem to be told what time it is to allow to
>> process passes shortly after they occur? (I plan on trying to automate
>> pulling data from SatNOGS for the still operating Foxes.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Also not totally related but any idea where i can look for old TLE for
>> Fox-1A. I normally go to SpaceTrack to get thay sort of stuff but because
>> Fox-1A doesnt exist there its not going to help much.
>>
>> KD9KCK
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 7:37 PM Chris Thompson <g0kla at arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Bill,
>> >
>> > You can download all of the data for AO-85 from this link:
>> > http://amsat.org/tlm/ao85/serverlogs.tar.gz  That contains the raw data
>> > in CSV format.  For Fox-1A the conversions are defined in the back of
>> the
>> > manual for FoxTelem.
>> >
>> > As Jerry said, your best bet might be to use FoxTelem.  You can save the
>> > data as a CSV file from any graph.  Even if it plots multiple channels.
>> > That allows you to save converted data in human readable form and do
>> > further analysis in another program.
>> >
>> > I'm more than happy to walk you through how to do this and help
>> extracting
>> > or converting the data.  Let me know how I can help.
>> >
>> > 73
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB <
>> > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> What CSV files are you getting from FoxTelem.  As I recall they all
>> have a
>> >> first line that has the name of the field.   Or do you mean
>> >> translation from downlinked units to standard units (like volts, ma,
>> >> degrees, etc)?  I'm not sure there is a doc, but there probably should
>> be.
>> >> Let us know what you need to know.
>> >>
>> >> Burns WB1FJ
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 4:38 PM Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB <
>> >> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Is there a document on how the CSV files are formatted? (I can't
>> seem to
>> >> > find any information on what columns are what.)
>> >> >
>> >> > KD9KCK
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 2:07 AM Jerry Buxton via AMSAT-BB <
>> >> > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > Bill,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > You can download all of the data for any particular satellite with
>> >> > > FoxTelem, using the "fetch server data" menu item.
>> >> > > I would suggest setting up/switching to a separate FoxTelem data
>> >> > > directory for that so the info doesn't overwrite your own captured
>> >> data
>> >> > > and can be left alone to play with.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Your analysis is of interest to engineering and many others I am
>> sure,
>> >> > > once you have studied the data and come to some conclusions or
>> >> > > hypotheses you may want to consider presenting it in an AMSAT
>> Journal
>> >> > > article.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Jerry Buxton, NØJY
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On 7/25/2020 22:22, Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB wrote:
>> >> > > > Is it possible to get some sort of download for the Historical
>> >> > Telemetry
>> >> > > > downlinked by Fox-1A? It would be interesting to study its life
>> in
>> >> > space.
>> >> > >
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>> > g0kla at arrl.net
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