Satellite Path Visualiser

Inspiration

There are over 3000 Satellites Active over our head,it is a dream to visualise space of many kids,and this project will tell which satellites are overhead them.

What it does

It uses API data from celestrak.com to get list of all Indian Satellites and their positions history.It takes that data and outputs it into a Globe Map with predicted orbits paths of Low Orbit,Nav Sats and Geo Sats.

Example:

How I built it

1. It uses celestrak.com API Request and stores that data into TLE file
2. THen it Uses that data from TLE and outputs that into PNG file as shown in example.
3. It uses Cartopy and Skyfield to plot data

Challenges I ran into

1. Sending API request was hard.
2. Plotting was difficult on map

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

1. It can be used in various applications for curious minds
2. Was successfully able to plot Path of Satellite

What I learned

1. Learned to use API requests
2. Was successfully able to plot Path of Satellite

Built With

• cartopy
• python
• skyfield