Satellite Tracking

[Krafft]

Has anyone written a satellite tracking program using Labview?  I want to create an SGP4 application that reads TLEs from https://celestrak.org and then uses current PC time to propagate a satellite to its current Lat/Long/Altitude.  I'd rather not start from scratch but will if required.

[tst]

I have zero knowledge of this, but a Google search for "SGP4 LabVIEW" shows various options, even if no actual code. I assume that's the more difficult part.

Getting data from a web service using something like the built-in HTTP Get.vi is usually relatively simple and I assume that parsing the data should be relatively easy as well. If it's HTTPS it can be more complicated, depending on your version of LV.

[uChiron]

I did it few years ago as part of my bachelor thesis (despite it's still a bit unpolished because the final software was written using Java as a requirement from my university). I'll able to share it in github on the next weekend. Let me know if you need a specific LabVIEW version.

[billko]

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@Krafft wrote:

Has anyone written a satellite tracking program using Labview?  I want to create an SGP4 application that reads TLEs from https://celestrak.org and then uses current PC time to propagate a satellite to its current Lat/Long/Altitude.  I'd rather not start from scratch but will if required.

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Sounds interesting!  Let us know how it comes out.  🙂

[RTSLVU]

Have you looked at Gpredict? 

When used with HAMLIB it will connect to many popular tracking antenna arrays to control them and it will even doppler tune your transceiver for communications.  

[uChiron]

Here it is.

Enjoy.

[jrlewis]

Is there a user's guide or some documentation for this project?

The vi's look good but I can't figure out how to use it  - trying to decipher the typdefs but...

[nimunoel]

HELLO?
Well done for this great work,

if we want the satellite's position based on GP coordinates, in which part of Vi should I enter the coordinates?
Thanks for the answer.

[Krafft]

Any chance you can save this using 2017?

[mcduff]

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@Krafft wrote:

Any chance you can save this using 2017?

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