Satellite Tracker

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This plug-in adds dynamicaly rendered Satellites to World Wind, 400 satellites are displayed and a satellite info window appears on mouse-over.<br> This plug-in adds dynamicaly rendered Satellites to World Wind, 400 satellites are displayed and a satellite info window appears on mouse-over.<br>
==Installation== ==Installation==
-Download [http://www.twobeds.com/nasa/bull/SatelliteTrackerWW.zip Satellite Tracker] and extract the file to your World Wind Plugins directory.+Download [http://download.worldwindcentral.com/users/bull/SatelliteTracker.zip Satellite Tracker] and extract the file to your World Wind Plugins directory.
==Usage== ==Usage==
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==External Links== ==External Links==
-*[http://www.twobeds.com/nasa/bull/SatelliteTrackerWW.zip Download Satellite Tracker 1.2]+*[http://download.worldwindcentral.com/users/bull/SatelliteTracker.zip Worldwind 1.4 Compatible Satellite Tracker]
-*[http://www.mashiharu.com Plug-in website]+*[http://issues.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/confluence/download/attachments/420/SatelliteTracker_v1_3_6.zip Worldwind 1.3.6 Compatible Satellite Tracker]
-*[http://forum.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.php?showtopic=5061 Official forum thread]+*[http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/showthread.php?t=5526 Official forum thread]
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==See also== ==See also==
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==Notes== ==Notes==
-This plug-in relies on the system clock so for accurate results it should be synched with a timeserver, alo due to a floating point precision problem the satellite positions are not accurate in versions of World Wind less than 1.3.4.+This plug-in relies on the system clock so for accurate results it should be synched with a timeserver, alo due to a floating point precision problem the satellite positions are not accurate in versions of World Wind less than 1.3.4. There also seems to be a problem for some international users due to a ./, issue, to fix this change your windows settings to US-English.<br>
 +Chris Maxwell has added various enhancements and fixed rendering for new 1.3.6 Camera code.Download the 1.3.6 compatible plugin from the link above.
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-[[Category:Add-ons]]+[[Category:Plugins1.4]]

Current revision

Satellite Tracker plug-in
Satellites
Satellites
Developer Mashiharu and Robert Neuman
Latest release 1.2 / Jan, 2006
License Public domain
Web site none

This plug-in adds dynamicaly rendered Satellites to World Wind, 400 satellites are displayed and a satellite info window appears on mouse-over.

Contents

[edit] Installation

Download Satellite Tracker and extract the file to your World Wind Plugins directory.

[edit] Usage

To use the plug-in load World Wind, open the Plug-Ins menu and click Load/Unload... (see figure 1).

figure 1
figure 1


Click on 'Satellite Tracker' in the Plugin Load/Unload window and then press the Load button, the indicator next to 'Satellite Tracker' should turn green, you can now safely close the Plugin Load/Unload window.

To display satellites click on Satellite Tracker to show a list of satellites, tick a name and wait a few seconds for the satellite models to load.

figure 2
figure 2


[edit] External Links

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

This plug-in relies on the system clock so for accurate results it should be synched with a timeserver, alo due to a floating point precision problem the satellite positions are not accurate in versions of World Wind less than 1.3.4. There also seems to be a problem for some international users due to a ./, issue, to fix this change your windows settings to US-English.
Chris Maxwell has added various enhancements and fixed rendering for new 1.3.6 Camera code.Download the 1.3.6 compatible plugin from the link above.

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