celestia-gnss/README.md

Spacecruft Celestia GNSS

Celestia is a "real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions".

It contains many celestial objects, but few that are man made, just as Hubble. It has a TLE for the ISS, but it doesn't update it.

There is a spreadsheet that you can enter a TLE into it and it generates an .ssc file that Celestia can read. Using a spreadsheet is a bit awkward, and hard to automate.

It would be real swell to be able to add TLEs to Celestia more easily. Then all the GNSS satellites could be added. Or SatNOGS...

It will take the data that generates this:

And render it in this application:

See Also

Spacecruft:

• https://spacecruft.org/spacecruft/gnss-earth

• https://spacecruft.org/spacecruft/celestia

Upstream Celestia:

• https://celestia.space/

• https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia

TLE Conversion Spreadsheet:

• https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/spreadsheets.html

• https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/tle-xls.zip

License / Copyright

Copyright (C) 2022 Jeff Moe.

License: GPLv2 or any later version.