The purpose of the orbit simulator is to simulator a satellite orbit above the earth. The input of the orbit simulator is TLE data for any satellite. TLE stands for two line element that details the orbital elements of a satellite at a given time. The output is two graphs, one for displaying the 3D plot of the satellite orbit and the other for displaying the groundtrace.
orbit_simulate is the main file to be run. functions/ contains all relevant functions to calculate the orbit trajectory. module_conversion/ is a directory of all coordinate transformation functions. TLE_Data/ contains satellite specific tle data.
- Add TLE Data file to
TLE_Data/ - Edit the initialise segment of
orbit_simulateto include the new TLE Data filename. - Change simulation duration if needed, it's defaulted to 86400s (1 day)
- Run
orbit_simulate
TLE Data for most satellites can be obtained from https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/
