satellite_ex v0.1.4 API Reference

Modules

Creates observer structs for commonly-used locations, big cities, etc.

Provides a set of algorithms to predict satellite passes over any location on Earth.

This module serves as a system-wide repository of satellite information. On startup, this genserver looks for locally-cached copies of satellite TLE data, and downloads it from the respective remote data sources (celestrak, amsat, etc) when the local cache does not exist or is stale.

Calculate the position of the sun

This module contains the math for determining whether a satellite is illuminated by the sun.