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onetwothree wrote:if you don't mind, we include it to our tools collection.

I don't mind. In fact, I'm thrilled!

You can send a massage to the devs with regards to your contributions I don't want to bother the devs with a minor thing like this. But I would suggest including the orbits of planets as well. That's an interesting suggestion. I would need a reliable source of planetary ephemeris. I'm not sure if m...

The orbits of many of the earth satellites included in Celestia are out of date. Especially low-flying satellites like the ISS are frequently in need of update, as atmospheric drag, dockings, and course corrections perturb the orbits. To automate this task, I've created a python script that download...

> Did you create a script to automatically generate the ssc files from the NORAD data or type them out manually? First off, sorry for the incredibly slow response. Second off, I've created a script that, I think, does what you want: Take any object in the CelesTrak database and output the SSC data. ...