satellitetrack.md

ThapSat Trajectory :

• Low Earth Orbit between the altitude of 160 km to 2000km.

• Time period Calculator :

  • Altitude (h) : 500 km (like PSLV-C38/Cartosat-2 Series Satellite)
  • Flight Velocity (v) : 7.6126070688109 km/s
  • Orbital Radius (r) : 6,878.14 km
  • Orbital Period (p) : 01:34:36.98 (hh:mm:ss)

• ISRO's Earth Observation Satellites.

• Some Cube Satellite.

• Passes over patiala for all satellite.

• SAMSAT 218D <- orbit very similar for planned ThapSat

  • Altitude: ~420 km
  • https://www.n2yo.com/passes/?s=41466&a=1# -> Daily Passes
  • https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2016-026C
  • https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/samsat-218d.htm
  • https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/30/aist-2d-and-samsat-218/
  • https://spaceflight101.com/soyuz-lomonosov/samsat-218d/
  • https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/41466
  • https://www.satview.org/?versao=classica&lang=us&sat_id=41466U
  • https://hackaday.com/2016/05/05/can-you-hear-samsat-218d/

• Important Links :

  • https://aerospaceresearch.net/?p=899
  • https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/0022-4073(74)90020-x
  • https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-32003-8_59-1
  • https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space
  • https://www.researchgate.net/post/Formula_between_solar_energy_and_wavelength_How_to_calculate_the_wavelength_from_Energy_Watt_m2
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/307258/fulltext/38762.text.html
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dlb_kHFPNJb1zqRb5gBcGxo9bAB_o_0B/view?usp=sharing

• Sun Angle :

  • https://www.suncalc.org/#/28.631,77.2172,12.167401410602388/2020.09.22/12:30/1/3
  • https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/properties-of-sunlight/calculation-of-solar-insolation
  • https://sciencing.com/sun-intensity-vs-angle-23529.html
  • https://www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tools/pos_sun.php?lang=en
  • http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6i.html
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/solar-altitude-angle
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/solar-incidence-angle

• Relevant Software packages:

  • https://github.com/syedmisbah/Satellite-Orbit-Simulator
  • https://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1224665242
  • https://gist.github.com/steos/746022
  • https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space#tracking--orbit-determination
  • https://github.com/Flowm/satvis
  • https://github.com/uhho/orbit_simulator