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The Kepler Manager
What is the Kepler Manager?
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The Kepler Manager allows you to interface with the Space-Track Web site. If you register WXtrack, you can also use the
automation features of the Kepler Manager to keep your Kepler data up-to-date
for both the multi-line Kepler data required by real-time tracking programs and
the historic Kepler data required by programs like SatSignal and the HRPT Reader
for processing non real-time data.
The Kepler Manager requires that you are a registered use of Space-Track
Web site. Please visit that site to register - it's free!
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Can I register and what do I get?
Your registration would be appreciated to help support
continued developments. If you register my WXtrack software a number of extra features in the Kepler Manager become available:
- a new menu option in WXtrack (Tools, Kepler Manager) allows you to run the Kepler Manager from within WXtrack (requires WXtrack V3.4.8 or
later).
- you can run the program with command-line a parameter -AUTO
or -START to provide
fully automated, hands-off updates of your Kepler
data. Use the Windows scheduler to provide regular updates (e.g. twice
a week).
- you can provide a list of your own favourite satellites to be retrieved in addition to the standard bulk
catalogues. You won't have to request changes to the Space-Track site and wait for items to be
added.
- the program can automatically update any multi-set historical data files that you have such as those used by my HRPT Reader program and other software.
Getting the most recent data
One oddity I've noticed is that the individual satellite data
- where you enter the catalogue numbers into the list - sometimes have more recent
Kepler data than the combined lists. So, for example, if you want the most
recent data for NOAA-18, enter its catalogue number (28654) into the list rather
than just relying on it being present in the weather group.
Requirements
- You must be a registered user of the Space-Track Web site
- You must be running Windows Vista, XP or 2000 on a 500MHz
PC with 256MB of memory or more. Windows 98 and ME should work as well
but are not supported.
Download the Kepler Manager
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V1.3.0
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Accept -START as parameter, as well as -AUTO |
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