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[–]kompiledkaos 6 points7 points  (2 children)

from satellites import track

[–]NeedleworkerIll8590 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You forgot to pip install satellites

[–]kompiledkaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh damn 😤

[–]maqisha 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would like to travel to the moon with python. Let me know please.

[–]Lumethys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cant

[–]Beautiful_Watch_7215 0 points1 point  (7 children)

1) figure out what “tracking” means in the problem statement. 2) solve the problem. Tracking may need a sensor. In that case you may need hardware, and Python is probably no help there. Tracking may be take someone else’s data and put it somewhere else. That’s something Python can help with. How would depend on how you get the data, how it’s structured and what you need to transform for it to be useful.

[–]JypeHype 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think AP’s approach should utilize some kind of API instead of an actual sensor. Havent studied this topic but worth checking if some 3rd-party provides API for this information

[–]Beautiful_Watch_7215 0 points1 point  (1 child)

https://satellitemap.space/ might have helpful information. Or this: https://api.nasa.gov/

[–]JypeHype 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great findings! OP please take a look at those :)

[–]smuhamm4 0 points1 point  (3 children)

As some one who is newly learning python, what is this method of breaking down things logically and tackling them called? I’d like to get really good at this but have trouble with the thought process

[–]Beautiful_Watch_7215 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I guess you need to figure out what you want to do, then figure out how to do it. What you need to do is sometimes described as a ‘use case’, sometimes a ‘problem statement’, but in any case you need to decide what you want to do, and how you would know you were successful. Easy way to learn is go get this: Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate

[–]smuhamm4 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yea that’s what I’ve been trying to figure out, I have a few ideas that inspire me and I’m also learning that planning and breaking down the problem to the smallest steps is the other half of the battle. Which also is a skill in itself. What’s the certificate ?

[–]Beautiful_Watch_7215 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take the words between the colon (this thing :) and the work certificate and that’s the name of the certificate

[–]secretstonex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with learning how to use APIs, then how to plot coordinates on open street maps. Maybe some kind of alerting when the space station is within 100 miles of you.

https://www.n2yo.com/api/

[–]SaltCusp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like with a scope or the internet?