thkruz / keeptrack.space

🌎📡 TypeScript Astrodynamics Software for Non-Engineers. 3D Visualization of satellite data and the sensors that track them.

@thkruz (Theodore Kruczek)

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keeptrack.space's Issues

Developer Mode

There should eventually be a mode that can be accessed by passing a flag with the GET method when accessing index.htm. In this mode there would be many things that are tripped by a global DEVELOPER_MODE such as console log statements and raw data values.

Launch Icon Showing Disabled

New Launch shows disabled if the same satellite is selected, deselected, and reselected again.

Tooltips Margin Not Uniform

Margins on some of the bottom design elements are not transferred to the tooltips leaving an non-uniform look. Minor issue.

Use Custom Sensor

There is currently code to type in a custom sensor in the url, but it should be moved to a menu that appears when you select "Custom" from the drop downs at the top. This will set the ground for telescope users to calculate lookangles for backyard astronomy.

Display Static Dots for Launch Sites

It would be nice to be able to display dots (similar to the satellites) in a static position on the earth to visually represent the launch sites. Added bonus if they are selectable to display information about the launch complexes.

Add Satellites

Add a case to sat-cruncher.js may allow main.js to send a new TLE to be added to satcache.

Deselecting Satellites Disables Look Angles and Multi-site Look Angles but leaves the Menu Open

Code needs to be added to the right click function to close the menu or a more elegant check to see if the menu should be disabled after right click has happened and the menu has been closed.

Error Checking for Nominal Creator

Some objects end up inside the earth using the nominal creator. Should save the original TLEs and do a perigee check at the end of the nominal creation to decide whether or not to commit the new TLE.

Disable Look Angles Until Sensor Selected

Currently it just opens an empty menu. Disable until sensor selected.

Lookangles Start-Stop Style

Option in settings for start-stop style lookangles.

Reduce TLE.json Size

Replace most strings in the arrays with numerical values that can be decoded in main.js to drastically reduce database size.

Hard part is making a php script to convert the current database quickly.

NORAD Number in Search

Would be nice to replace international designators in the search bar with NORAD numbers. Maybe another setting that toggles between the two?

Music and/or Sound Effects

Long term this might be something worth exploring. Music could be pulled from the open source project to do dynamic symphony music based on satellites in FOV.

Duplicate menu-radar ids

Four menus are all named menu-radar. They need to have different names and any code referencing them should probably be referencing the class instead.

Change Color Scheme from Settings

Four global variables for payload, r/b, debris, and inview objects that can be changed from the settings menu.

Next Pass Time in Sat Box

Show the next pass time in the sat box. Code is already made for show next pass time on hover.

SOCRATES Camera Changes

Socrates method in main.js currently calls three other methods that all have camera changes. This causes the camera to bounce around unnecessarily.

Nominal Creation

Using a for loop a TLE with inclination and epoch day set to current day may have its R value and true anomaly adjusted until the current Lat Long matches a picked launch site.

Links in Sat Box not Working

Clicking find objects from this launch and objects near this satellite don't work.

Set Max Orbits in Settings Menu

Adjust max orbits variable from the settings menu.

Social Media Integration

As we get closer to version 1.0 it would be smart to add social media integration so that you can share/tweet details that you are looking at and get more visitors.

Rotate Around Object Instead of Earth

Modifying the free camera view to lock the x, y, z coordinates but allow the view to be rotated should accomplish this. This view will be useful for explaining how optical satellites can view other satellites.

index.htm Organization

Currently the divs in index.htm are all over the place. They need to be sorted/organized.

ELSETS not Updating in 2017

cron-ParseTLE.php doesn't seem to be working.

Weather Menu for Sensors without Weather Maps

Better handling is needed for when a sensor without a weather map is selected to display terrestrial weather.

TLE.json Updates

There are a series of admin files that are currently not public. These include a few cron jobs that run every two hours to update TLEs. Until they are uploaded the TLE.json file only be updated when a new commit is added.

Launch Calendar

Launch calendar still relies on a manual update method from October 2016. This needs to be replaced with similar code from the SOCRATES cron job so that it can be updated automatically every 12 hours. Unclear how to handle a smooth transition into 2017, but maybe that part is just manual.

Disable All Buttons Until Orbits Generated

Currently the buttons can be pressed before everything is loaded. Can be clunky and would look much better if they were disabled until loading is finished.

TLE Change Detection

It would be useful if the script that updates the TLEs compared the new TLE to the old TLE and flagged large changes in inclination or period.

Launch Nominals Going the Wrong Direction

The current algorith does not account for moving in a north or south direction. Conditional needed that factors in current latitude with last latitude to determine current heading.

ISS Stream Blocks Other Menus

Either need to hide it when other menus visible or move it somewhere else.

Non-Selectable Objects Transparency

It would be helpful if non-selectable objects can be made more transparent using a setting on the page.

Calculate Distance Between Objects

I want to add a feature that allows you to type two object numbers in a menu and then calculate the distance between them at the current time. Should be as simple as determining the scale of the x, y, z coordinate system and then doing some subtraction.

Quick Look at All Sensors for Upcoming Passes

An alternative lookangles menu that displays the next few passes for each sensor to help identify which sensor will see an object next.

Analyst Mode

Long term it would be extremely useful to have a mode/page that runs the satcruncher without utilizing opengl or the satellite-orbit-worker. This would be a lot of menus with forms to do things like lookangles, elset comparisons, and collision calculations without taxing a slower computer with opengl.

Cron Job to Parse RCS Data

https://celestrak.com/pub/satcat.txt contains RCS values for all orbital satellites in m^2. This could be utilized to supplement the small, medium, large values.

Sat Info Box Tooltips

Replace default windows tooltips on the Sat Info Box with the same popups that are displayed when highlighting an object.

Next Pass on Highlight

When highlighting an object after selecting a sensor, the popup should display the next pass time or if the object is currently in FOV.

Search Filters Unnecessary

Search filter for satellites currently pushes unnecessary data. Needs refined.

Replace Observer Latitude Check with an Actual Variable

Currently there are checks to see if an observer's latitude is set to determine whether a sensor is selected or not. This should be replaced with a check to see if an actual variable is flagged. Will reduce potential bugs later.

Feedback on Disabled Button Click

Currently there is no feedback when you click the disabled buttons at the bottom. Perhaps a small jquery shake effect.

Lookangles Broken When Clock Froze

Lookangles won't generate when proprate = 0.

Possible Collisions Side Menu Not Removed When Selecting Other Side Menus

Needs to be added to the hidesidemenu function.

Start Time of Each Pass for 3 Days on One Sensor

Allow people to see each pass for a satellite at a given sensor.

Read Me Needs Updated

Read me is lacking. Needs better explanation of features and code.

Right mouse click not working.

Clicking the right mouse click is not firing the mouseup function.

Full SSN/Foreign View

Option to view what the whole SSN or all Russian/PRC tracking stations can view. This could be then leveraged to see what objects are out of view ("Dark Space") and for how long. Modifying satcruncher to do a full network check similar to how the SSN lookangles function works would enable this. It would require passing a binary variable to the web worker when the settings menu is modified.

Lookangles Adjustable Interval

Text box with adjustable interval for lookangles and multi site lookangles.

Replacing TLE.json with a Real Database

The current .json database works but is 9MB and is slow to load. It is known to become corrupted on occasion (work-around in place) and is problematic during updates. Would like to convert to a mysql database or something similar.

Imagery from On-Orbit Satellites

I would like to be able to see the most current imagery from any satellite that publishes images. This might be best in a menu that lists all the satellites that publish images and then a box that pops up when you select those satellites.