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TLE2ECL - Equatorial to ecliptical elements converter
ISS at real world (construction incomplete) ISS at ORBITER ( construction complete)
This program is used to convert equatorial elements format, used by NORAD Two Line Elements (TLE), to ecliptical format, used by ORBITER. It is still in the development phase. It was written to be very user friendly and easy to use.
ORBITER main website can be found here.
Steven Strambach, who has been helping me in some aspects of the program, makes daily ISS scenarios
for ORBITER which can be downloaded from his site.
If you want to download earlier versions of TLE2ECL, then go here.
The most recent version of TLE2ECL is beta 4
This version has some bugs fixes over beta 3 release 2 and:
- Satellite search support. Now you can search for a satellite on on TLE data file.
- Ecliptical mean anomaly and ecliptical longitude of periapsis are calculated
correctly by a trial and error method, which is not a definitive fix because it
requires some manual interventions, what is not very practical.
- Among other features.
It's known bugs are:
- If the data is not in the correct format specified in the readme file, then the results will be erroneous.
Planned features for next release:
- Launch window calculation. The program will calculate the optimal times to launch to the satellite.
Last update 24 august 2002