Analysis of the orbital object population (part I)

8 Novembro 2022, 09:00 André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

Computational exercise for studying the population of orbital objects described in "Two / Three Line Elements" (TLEs)

:: Orbital data
- Formats: TLEs, xml, etc
- Contents
- Sources: Online databases (Space-Track, Celestrack, ESA Discos)
- SGP orbit propagation

: Analysis of a single object
- Explanation of the ephem and datetime python packages
- Reading a TLE for a single object
- Orbit integration
- Inspection of the output of orbit integration
- Orbit visualisation