Any website about the satellite’s orbit covers?

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hanzawa1991
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Any website about the satellite’s orbit covers?

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Please tell me how to know which range each satellite’s orbit covers, how good the reconnaissance means are, without actually adding satellite units (the computer configuration is average, afraid of not being able to run the game). Is there such a query website?
boogabooga
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Re: Any website about the satellite’s orbit covers?

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This is what is publicly available, but details about government recon satellites are almost certainly going to be outside of the public domain.

https://celestrak.org
https://www.heavens-above.com/
https://www.n2yo.com/
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hanzawa1991
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Re: Any website about the satellite’s orbit covers?

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boogabooga wrote: Thu Mar 23, 2023 4:33 am This is what is publicly available, but details about government recon satellites are almost certainly going to be outside of the public domain.

https://celestrak.org
https://www.heavens-above.com/
https://www.n2yo.com/
Thx a lot
Fido81
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Re: Any website about the satellite’s orbit covers?

Post by Fido81 »

I don't think CMO is the tool you're looking for, and I don't think a website is going to have the fidelity to answer your question for all spacecraft.
You should take a look at Ansys's Systems Tool Kit (https://www.ansys.com/products/missions/ansys-stk), which I recall hearing a rumor about a CMO PE integration in the pipeline somewhere, if you've got a budget. If you haven't got a budget, I recommend NASA's General Mission Analysis Tool (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmat/).
You should be able to propagate satellite orbits and plot ground tracks in these tools using two line elements (TLEs) that are publicly available from celestrak. I'm not sure if those ground plots necessarily take sensors into account (but I think it's possible at least with STK). It is definitely possible to set the satellites to TLEs using the CMO Lua API if you want to represent a satellite in a particular orbit at a particular point in time.
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