NAME

SpaceTrack - Perl application to fetch satellite orbit data.

SYNOPSIS

This application provides a command-line interface to the Astro::SpaceTrack module, based on the Astro::SpaceTrack::shell subroutine.

This gives you interactive access to all Astro::SpaceTrack methods, plus pseudo output redirection (with tilde expansion) if you want your output to go to a file.

Commands can be passed in on the command line. After all command-line commands have been processed, you get an interactive prompt unless one of the command-line commands was 'exit'. Beginning with 0.014, commands can also be piped in, or redirected in from a file.

The one and only option is -filter, which sets the 'filter' attribute of the Astro::SpaceTrack object. This prevents informational output (such as the banner and 'OK' messages) to STDOUT. The idea is that with -filter asserted, you can pipe the output to another program, and only have orbital elements written to the pipe.

Please see Astro::SpaceTrack for the details.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to thank Dr. T. S. Kelso of https://celestrak.org/ and the staff of https://www.space-track.org/ (whose names are unfortunately unknown to me) for their co-operation, assistance and encouragement in the development of the Astro::SpaceTrack module.

AUTHOR

Thomas R. Wyant, III (wyant at cpan dot org).

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2006, 2010-2026 by Thomas R. Wyant, III (wyant at cpan dot org).

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the files LICENSE-Artistic and LICENSE-GPL.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

The data obtained by this script may be subject to the Space Track user agreement (https://www.space-track.org/documentation#/user_agree).