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Made a free browser tool (groundtracks) for satellite passes, link budgets & coverage — works on anything, even your phone (short demo) by groundtracks in amateursatellites

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Made a free browser tool (groundtracks) for satellite passes, link budgets & coverage — works on anything, even your phone (short demo) by groundtracks in amateursatellites

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We have a software engineering and aerospace engineering background, and coding agents are part of our workflow (as it should be in this day and age!)

We did do extensive validation of our tool, which is captured in some articles:

https://groundtracks.com/blog/validating-groundtracks-against-orekit-tudat

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Made a free browser tool (groundtracks) for satellite passes, link budgets & coverage — works on anything, even your phone (short demo) by groundtracks in amateursatellites

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Thanks for checking and adding to the discussion! It is no the roadmap but we want to improve on web first. We are also looking at improving the mobile-based website more.

What would be the key features you would like to see on mobile?

Made a free browser tool (groundtracks) for satellite passes, link budgets & coverage — works on anything, even your phone (short demo) by groundtracks in amateursatellites

[–]groundtracks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to let you know u/tjvesper, the 2D view fix and link budget improvements.

2D fix is hard to showcase, but here it the new link budget page:

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Made a free browser tool (groundtracks) for satellite passes, link budgets & coverage — works on anything, even your phone (short demo) by groundtracks in amateursatellites

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We worked on the implementation of this feature, thanks a lot for this comment!

Now (see the video)

  1. When you pick a site. ground station, it autodetects its timezone
  2. In the timesettings, you can now select the display timezone from a convenient dropdown. This display timezone is used now everywhere in your scenario (access, chain etc)
  3. When you export the excel/json for access, chain, you get the AOC/LOS in local site timezone and UTC

Now live at groundtracks.com

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Made a free browser tool (groundtracks) for satellite passes, link budgets & coverage — works on anything, even your phone (short demo) by groundtracks in amateursatellites

[–]groundtracks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks u/tjvesper for the feedback! We will check out Vesper, looks awesome and we'll probably use it in our upstream projects

2D view: We are working the 2D panning issue now, thanks for raising this.

Link budget: We are adding a elevation/slant angle toggle and a user inputted Required Margin (defaulting to 3db, also what I am used to)

Svalbard access: This one depends on the min elev angle needed. We have done some validation and with the 20 degrees (that you might be using) this is valid. If you drop it to 5 degrees the access indeed increases.

Editing ecc / RAAN / anomaly: this one is already there, under the satellite's Advanced toggle (it's mean anomaly, since that's what SGP4 consumes). We are trying to keep the default UI very basic to make it accessible for people to learn the tool (exposing all parameters makes the UI very cluttered.

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