get_example_tles#

cysgp4.get_example_tles()[source]#

Return a text with example TLE entries for testing purposes.

The example is the content of the file “science.txt”, which was downloaded from Celestrak on Nov 25 2019.

Returns:

tle_textstr: Text containing TLE line strings.

Examples

Use like this:

>>> import cysgp4

>>> tle_text = cysgp4.get_example_tles()
>>> tle_text[:200]
'AKEBONO (EXOS-D)        \r\n1 19822U 89016A   19321.49921565  .00016421  94291-6  28704-3 0  9992\r\n2 19822  75.0304 327.7460 1766579 276.4058  63.9734 12.00957719 13956\r\nHST                     \r\n1 2058'

>>> tles = cysgp4.tle_tuples_from_text(tle_text)
>>> tles  
[('AKEBONO (EXOS-D)        ',
  '1 19822U 89016A   19321.49921565  .00016421  94291-6  28704-3 0  9992',
  '2 19822  75.0304 327.7460 1766579 276.4058  63.9734 12.00957719 13956'),
 ('HST                     ',
  '1 20580U 90037B   19321.38711875  .00000471  00000-0  17700-4 0  9991',
  '2 20580  28.4699 288.8102 0002495 321.7771 171.5855 15.09299865423838'),
...
 ('ZHANGZHENG-1 (CSES)     ',
  '1 43194U 18015C   19322.55091545  .00001006  00000-0  48427-4 0  9993',
  '2 43194  97.4135  85.6925 0016973 127.3937   1.4087 15.20935646 99453')]