[Server-sky] Anybody want to process the NORAD two-line elements into potential server-sky colliders?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zznmeb at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 06:43:56 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Mike Zuhl <mikez at zuhl.com> wrote:
> Yeah, put me down for muscles over brains.  I was after I converted the
> program (mostly done with "f2c" so nothing particularly amazing) I was
> poking around and found the other code.  It's already done and presumably
> tested, so that's the place to start.
> It's a bit funny, but even the official Project Space Track C++ version is
> "FORTRAN spoken in C++."  It's transliterated from the original language,
> preserving the clunky calls and global variables.

I can probably still read and write FORTRAN if I have to, although
gfortran works just fine on my machines. :)

How big is the data set? Did we get someone volunteered to do a
three-dimensional visualization or anything cool like that?

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