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tj_astro

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About tj_astro

Astrodynamics, space situational awareness, forensic orbit determination, and Python. Easily distracted by high quality data visualizations.

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    Comment #45381226

    The instrument is the particular radar. They usually have two at each location. Each radar is essentially a linear phased array that creates multiple possible beam locations in the…

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    Comment #44081238

    Nice list, thanks for compiling it. It looks like you have "textik" in there twice in positions 11 and 13.

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    Comment #43059861

    That is super helpful, thanks! I'm used to calling the inverse of the covariance the information matrix.

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    Comment #39260689

    I'm about to wrap up my 3rd year as a one-person company ( https://www.exaresearch.com ) specializing in spacecraft flight dynamics and space situtational awareness (SSA). I basica…

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    Comment #39260553

    This is fantastic. I've just started skimming through these. As an orbit determination person, this one hits home (page 207). Thou shalt not do anything that is a maneuver without …

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    Comment #36905757

    I've found https://superfastpython.com/learning-paths/#Multiprocessing_... to be an invaluable resource for advanced multiprocessing.

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    Comment #36891833

    Purify was a fantastic tool and I would have cheerfully paid $100K in late-90's dollars. We demoed it and the amount of memory errors it found in our legacy C and nascent C++ code …

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    Comment #36533577

    They have their own satellites, none of it is open source. You can find all 20+ of them in the SATCAT at http://celestrak.org/satcat/table-satcat.php?NAME=hawk&PAYLO... . Ignore th…