Tracking of space debris from publicly available data

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Hoddinott, Philip James Bernard
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2018-12
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ENG
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Aeronautical engineering
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The purpose of this thesis is to develop software that will acquire information about earth orbiting debris and turn the information into a usable format for someone with basic orbital mechanics experience. The code will take in parameters about the orbital data from the user. Then it checks for existing files and communicates with NORAD servers. The data is downloaded from NORAD and converted from the Two Line Element set format to Keplerian Orbital Elements. From here the data may be sorted according to the user's desire. The code will be able to handle errors that occur during the process.
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December 2018
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13015/2329
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