Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: sgp4
Version: 2.8
Summary: Track earth satellite TLE orbits using up-to-date 2010 version of SGP4
Home-page: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-sgp4
Author: Brandon Rhodes
Author-email: brandon@rhodesmill.org
License: MIT
Description: 
        This Python package computes the position and velocity of an
        earth-orbiting satellite, given the satellite's TLE orbital elements
        from a source like `Celestrak <http://celestrak.com/>`_.  It implements
        the most recent version of SGP4, and is regularly run against the SGP4
        test suite to make sure that its satellite position predictions **agree
        to within 0.1 mm** with the predictions of the standard distribution of
        the algorithm.  This error is far less than the 1–3 km/day by which
        satellites themselves deviate from the ideal orbits described in TLE
        files.
        
        * If your platform supports it, this package compiles the verbatim
          source code from the official C++ version of SGP4.  You can call the
          routine directly, or through an array API that loops over arrays of
          satellites and arrays of times with machine code instead of Python.
        
        * Otherwise, a slower but reliable Python implementation of SGP4 is used
          instead.
        
        Note that this package produces raw Earth-centered cartesian
        coordinates.  It does not implement all the steps necessary to convert
        satellite positions into geographic coordinates.  For that, look for a
        comprehensive astronomy library that is built atop this one, like the
        `Skyfield <http://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/>`_ library:
        
        http://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/earth-satellites.html
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        This library uses the same function names as the official C++ code, to
        help users who may already be familiar with SGP4 in other languages.
        Here is how to compute the x,y,z position and velocity for the
        International Space Station at 12:50:19 on 29 June 2000:
        
        >>> from sgp4.api import Satrec
        >>>
        >>> s = '1 25544U 98067A   19343.69339541  .00001764  00000-0  38792-4 0  9991'
        >>> t = '2 25544  51.6439 211.2001 0007417  17.6667  85.6398 15.50103472202482'
        >>> satellite = Satrec.twoline2rv(s, t)
        >>>
        >>> jd, fr = 2458827, 0.362605
        >>> e, r, v = satellite.sgp4(jd, fr)
        >>> e
        0
        >>> print(r)
        (-6102.44..., -986.33..., -2820.31...)
        >>> print(v)
        (-1.45..., -5.52..., 5.10...)
        
        As input, you can provide either:
        
        * A simple floating-point Julian Date for ``jd`` and the value 0.0 for
          ``fr``, if you are happy with the precision of a 64-bit floating point
          number.  Note that modern Julian Dates are greater than 2,450,000
          which means that nearly half of the precision of a 64-bit float will
          be consumed by the whole part that specifies the day.  The remaining
          digits will provide a precision for the fraction of around 20.1 µs.
          This should be no problem for the accuracy of your result — satellite
          positions usually off by a few kilometers anyway, far less than a
          satellite moves in 20.1 µs — but if you run a solver that dives down
          into the microseconds while searching for a rising or setting time,
          the solver might be bothered by the 20.1 µs plateau between each jump
          in the satellite’s position.
        
        * Or, you can provide a coarse date ``jd`` that is within a few weeks or
          months of the satellite’s epoch, and a very precise fraction ``fr``
          that supplies the rest of the value.  The Julian Date for which the
          satellite position is computed is the sum of the two values.  One
          common practice is to provide the whole number as ``jd`` and the
          fraction as ``fr``; another is to have ``jd`` carry the fraction 0.5
          since UTC midnight occurs halfway through each Julian Date.  Either
          way, splitting the value allows a solver to run all the way down into
          the nanoseconds and still see SGP4 respond smoothly to tiny date
          adjustments with tiny changes in the resulting satellite position.
        
        Here is how to intrepret the results:
        
        * ``e`` will be a non-zero error code if the satellite position could
          not be computed for the given date.  You can ``from sgp4.api import
          SGP4_ERRORS`` to access a dictionary mapping error codes to error
          messages explaining what each code means.
        
        * ``r`` measures the satellite position in **kilometers** from the
          center of the earth in the idiosyncratic True Equator Mean Equinox
          coordinate frame used by SGP4.
        
        * ``v`` velocity is the rate at which the position is changing,
          expressed in **kilometers per second**.
        
        If your application does not natively handle Julian dates, you can
        compute ``jd`` and ``fr`` from calendar dates using ``jday()``.
        
        >>> from sgp4.api import jday
        >>> jd, fr = jday(2019, 12, 9, 12, 0, 0)
        >>> jd
        2458826.5
        >>> fr
        0.5
        
        Array Acceleration
        ------------------
        
        To avoid the expense of Python loops when you have many dates, you can
        pass them as arrays to another method that understands NumPy:
        
        >>> import numpy as np
        >>> np.set_printoptions(precision=2)
        
        >>> jd = np.array((2458826, 2458826, 2458826, 2458826))
        >>> fr = np.array((0.0001, 0.0002, 0.0003, 0.0004))
        
        >>> e, r, v = satellite.sgp4_array(jd, fr)
        
        >>> print(e)
        [0 0 0 0]
        >>> print(r)
        [[-3431.31  2620.15 -5252.97]
         [-3478.86  2575.14 -5243.87]
         [-3526.09  2529.89 -5234.28]
         [-3572.98  2484.41 -5224.19]]
        >>> print(v)
        [[-5.52 -5.19  1.02]
         [-5.49 -5.22  1.08]
         [-5.45 -5.25  1.14]
         [-5.41 -5.28  1.2 ]]
        
        To avoid the expense of Python loops when you have many satellites and
        dates, build a ``SatrecArray`` from several individual satellites.  Its
        ``sgp4()`` method will expect both ``jd`` and ``fr`` to be NumPy arrays,
        so if you only have one date, be sure to provide NumPy arrays of length
        one.  Here is a sample computation for 2 satellites and 4 dates:
        
        >>> s = '1 20580U 90037B   19342.88042116  .00000361  00000-0  11007-4 0  9996'
        >>> t = '2 20580  28.4682 146.6676 0002639 185.9222 322.7238 15.09309432427086'
        >>> satellite2 = Satrec.twoline2rv(s, t)
        
        >>> from sgp4.api import SatrecArray
        >>> a = SatrecArray([satellite, satellite2])
        >>> e, r, v = a.sgp4(jd, fr)
        
        >>> np.set_printoptions(precision=2)
        >>> print(e)
        [[0 0 0 0]
         [0 0 0 0]]
        >>> print(r)
        [[[-3431.31  2620.15 -5252.97]
          [-3478.86  2575.14 -5243.87]
          [-3526.09  2529.89 -5234.28]
          [-3572.98  2484.41 -5224.19]]
        <BLANKLINE>
         [[ 5781.85  2564.   -2798.22]
          [ 5749.36  2618.59 -2814.63]
          [ 5716.35  2672.94 -2830.78]
          [ 5682.83  2727.05 -2846.68]]]
        >>> print(v)
        [[[-5.52 -5.19  1.02]
          [-5.49 -5.22  1.08]
          [-5.45 -5.25  1.14]
          [-5.41 -5.28  1.2 ]]
        <BLANKLINE>
         [[-3.73  6.33 -1.91]
          [-3.79  6.3  -1.88]
          [-3.85  6.28 -1.85]
          [-3.91  6.25 -1.83]]]
        
        The attributes of a ``Satrec`` object carry the data loaded from the TLE
        entry.
        Most of this class's hundred-plus attributes are intermediate values
        of interest only to the propagation algorithm itself.  Here are the
        attributes set by ``sgp4.io.twoline2rv()`` in which users are likely
        to be interested:
        
        ``satnum``
            Unique satellite number given in the TLE file.
        ``epochyr``
            Full four-digit year of this element set's epoch moment.
        ``epochdays``
            Fractional days into the year of the epoch moment.
        ``jdsatepoch``
            Julian date of the epoch (computed from ``epochyr`` and ``epochdays``).
        ``ndot``
            First time derivative of the mean motion (ignored by SGP4).
        ``nddot``
            Second time derivative of the mean motion (ignored by SGP4).
        ``bstar``
            Ballistic drag coefficient B* in inverse earth radii.
        ``inclo``
            Inclination in radians.
        ``nodeo``
            Right ascension of ascending node in radians.
        ``ecco``
            Eccentricity.
        ``argpo``
            Argument of perigee in radians.
        ``mo``
            Mean anomaly in radians.
        ``no_kozai``
            Mean motion in radians per minute.
        
          Look at the class's documentation for details.
        
        Export
        ------
        
        If you have a ``Satrec`` you want to share with friends or persist to a
        file, there’s an export routine that will turn it back into a TLE:
        
        >>> from sgp4.exporter import export_tle
        >>> line1, line2 = export_tle(satellite)
        >>> line1
        '1 25544U 98067A   19343.69339541  .00001764  00000-0  38792-4 0  9991'
        >>> line2
        '2 25544  51.6439 211.2001 0007417  17.6667  85.6398 15.50103472202482'
        
        Gravity
        -------
        
        The SGP4 algorithm operates atop a set of constants specifying how
        strong the Earth’s gravity is.  The most recent official paper on SGP4
        (see below) specifies that “We use WGS-72 as the default value”, so this
        Python module uses the same default.  But in case you want to use either
        the old legacy version of the WGS-72 constants, or else the non-standard
        but more modern WGS-84 constants, the ``twoline2rv()`` constructor takes
        an optional argument:
        
        >>> from sgp4.api import WGS72OLD, WGS72, WGS84
        >>> satellite3 = Satrec.twoline2rv(s, t, WGS84)
        
        You will in general get less accurate results if you choose WGS-84.
        Even though it reflects more recent and accurate measures of the Earth,
        satellite TLEs across the industry are most likely generated with WGS-72
        as their basis.  The positions you generate will better agree with the
        real positions of each satellite if you use the same underlying gravity
        constants as were used to generate the TLE.
        
        Providing your own elements
        ---------------------------
        
        If instead of parsing a TLE you want to provide your own orbital
        elements, you can call the ``sgp4init()`` method of any existing
        satellite object to reset it to those new elements.
        
        >>> sat = Satrec()
        >>> sat.sgp4init(
        ...     WGS72,           # gravity model
        ...     'i',             # 'a' = old AFSPC mode, 'i' = improved mode
        ...     5,               # satnum: Satellite number
        ...     18441.785,       # epoch: days since 1949 December 31 00:00 UT
        ...     2.8098e-05,      # bstar: drag coefficient (kg/m2er)
        ...     6.969196665e-13, # ndot: ballistic coefficient (revs/day)
        ...     0.0,             # nddot: second derivative of mean motion (revs/day^3)
        ...     0.1859667,       # ecco: eccentricity
        ...     5.7904160274885, # argpo: argument of perigee (radians)
        ...     0.5980929187319, # inclo: inclination (radians)
        ...     0.3373093125574, # mo: mean anomaly (radians)
        ...     0.0472294454407, # no_kozai: mean motion (radians/minute)
        ...     6.0863854713832, # nodeo: right ascension of ascending node (radians)
        ... )
        
        To compute the “epoch” value, simply take a normal Julian date and
        subtract ``2433281.5`` days.
        
        The character provided as the second argument can be ``'a'`` to run the
        computations so that they are compatible with the old Air Force Space
        Command edition of the library, or ``'i'`` to run the new and improved
        version of the SGP4 algorithm.
        
        Validation against the official algorithm
        -----------------------------------------
        
        This implementation passes all of the automated tests in the August 2010
        release of the reference implementation of SGP4 by Vallado et al., who
        originally published their revision of SGP4 in 2006:
        
            Vallado, David A., Paul Crawford, Richard Hujsak, and T.S. Kelso,
            “Revisiting Spacetrack Report #3,” presented at the AIAA/AAS
            Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Keystone, CO, 2006 August
            21–24.
        
        If you would like to review the paper, it is `available online
        <http://www.celestrak.com/publications/AIAA/2006-6753/>`_.  You can
        always download the latest version of their code for comparison against
        this Python module (or other implementations) at `AIAA-2006-6753.zip
        <http://www.celestrak.com/publications/AIAA/2006-6753/AIAA-2006-6753.zip>`_.
        
        For developers
        --------------
        
        Developers can check out this full project from GitHub:
        
        https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-sgp4
        
        To run its unit tests, install Python 2, Python 3, and the ``tox``
        testing tool.  The tests runing in Python 2 will exercise the backup
        pure Python version of the routines, while Python 3 exercises the fast
        new C++ accelerated code::
        
            cd python-sgp4
            tox
        
        Legacy API
        ----------
        
        Before this library pivoted to wrapping Vallado's official C++ code and
        was operating in pure Python only, it had a slightly quirkier API, which
        is still supported for compatibility with older clients.  You can learn
        about it by reading the documentation from version 1.4 or earlier:
        
        https://pypi.org/project/sgp4/1.4/
        
        Changelog
        ---------
        
        | 2020-05-07 — 2.8 — New function ``jday_datetime()`` is now available in the ``sgp4.conveniences`` module, thanks to Egemen Imre.
        | 2020-04-24 — 2.7 — New method ``sgp4init()`` (thank you, Chris Lewicki!) is available.
        | 2020-04-20 — 2.6 — New routine ``export_tle()`` (thank you, Egemen Imre!) is available. Improved how the accelerated C++ backend parses the ``intldesg`` string and the ``revnum`` integer.
        | 2020-03-22 — 2.5 — Gave the new accelerated ``twoline2rv()`` an optional argument that lets the user choose a non-standard set of gravity constants.
        | 2020-02-25 — 2.4 — Improved the ``jday()`` docstring; made the old legacy Python resilient if the day of the month is out-of-range (past the end of the month) in a TLE; and Mark Rutten fixed the C++ so it compiles on Windows!
        | 2020-02-04 — 2.3 — Removed experimental code that caused performance problems for users with Numba installed.
        | 2020-02-02 — 2.2 — A second release on Palindrome Day: fix the Satrec ``.epochyr`` attribute so it behaves the same way in Python as it does in the official C library, where it is only the last 2 digits of the year; and make ``.no`` available in the Python fallback case as well.
        | 2020-02-02 — 2.1 — Add vectorized array method to Satrec object; add ``.no`` attribute to new Satrec object to support old code that has not migrated to the new name ``.no_kozai``; gave Python wrapper classes ``__slots__`` to avoid the expense of a per-object attribute dictionary.
        | 2020-01-30 — 2.0 — Rewrite API to use genuine Vallado C++ code on those systems where it can be compiled; add accelerated vectorized array interface; make ``gstime()`` a public function; clarify format error message.
        | 2015-01-15 — 1.4 — Display detailed help when TLE input does not match format.
        | 2014-06-26 — 1.3 — Return ``(NaN,NaN,NaN)`` vectors on error and set ``.error_message``
        | 2013-11-29 — 1.2 — Made ``epochyr`` 4 digits; add ``datetime`` for ``.epoch``
        | 2012-11-22 — 1.1 — Python 3 compatibility; more documentation
        | 2012-08-27 — 1.0 — Initial release
        
        
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