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

[Alan]

AO-85 and a couple of others are not available in the normal distributions.  AMSAT keeps its own archives:

https://www.amsat.org/tle/historical/

Toward the bottom you can get the Keps for AO-85 in approximately weekly intervals.

73,

Alan
WA4SCA


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<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.
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<KD9KCK
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<On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 8:24 PM Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
<wrote:
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<> 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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