I am attempting to add a satellite to GPredict via local files (rather than acquiring it online, for example), as a means to test theoretical TLE data. However, when a new module is created that tries to track the test satellite, it crashes the program. Here are the entries in the “1.sat,” and the “satellites.dat” files, which have been put in the appropriate places in the file system.
Is there additional information that needs to be input into the program somewhere, or did I make a mistake in entering the data into the existing files?
You don’t need to add it to satellites.dat since that file is only intended for distribution of initial data for new users.
I note that your TLE data is different in the two files and seem to be mall formed in the first case. Instead of screenshots, please copy and paste the actual data as preformatted text so that we can check what is wrong. However, first please make sure your data is consistent with the TLE specification since the porser in Gpredict is not 100% bullet proof.
Apologies for the long delay in responding to this topic. It was, indeed, the TLE being malformed that resulted in the error. Upon correcting it, the satellite loaded in correctly, and worked properly.
I am trying something similar and I am not getting anywhere.
I want to load TLEs from different epochs of the same satellite. For this purpose I have downloaded the TLEs of the different epochs from Celestrak. Unfortunately, it is not quite clear to me how I can now import them with GPredict. I have tried to add the TLEs to the satellites.dat file. Here is a sample entry that I added:
