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TLE with zero eccentricity from `propagate` crashes other programs

Open kerel-fs opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

:lady_beetle: Problem

TLEs produced with propagate will have the eccentricity set to zero. This will crash some tools when loading the TLE, e.g. "Orbitron".

:bulb: Possible solutions

  • Store the eccentricity set in the old TLE before propagation and set it again before writing the new TLE.
  • Set a very small default eccentricity. The smallest encodable positive eccentricity is 0000001 / 1e-7 °.

kerel-fs avatar Jan 14 '22 16:01 kerel-fs