Hello,
I want to convert orbital elements of a satellite in TLE. It is not to create some fake TLE but to construct TLE from orbital elements which will be give to me few hours before observations. I want to code that in python but i don’t know how i can do it. I searched for a long time but nothing.
If someone can help me it will be very nice.
Thanks you
Hello @Theo,
Welcome to the forum!
I think what you’re looking for is the method TLE.stateToTLE(final SpacecraftState state, final TLE templateTLE).
templateTLE
is an “empty” TLE used to initialize non-orbital attributes (launch piece, satellite number etc.)
You can use any TLE of your satellite to initialize it, the method will rewrite the orbital part.
There is a known issue with this method, that has been discussed quite a lot on the forge. In some cases, it doesn’t converge. I hope you’re not going to run into it.
Hope this helps,
Maxime
1 Like
Hello Maxime,
Thanks for your answer. I will read more about it and try.
Théo