#!/usr/bin/python3 # # Add satellites from AMSAT website that were not in the Celestrak database # import os import string import urllib.request webfile = 'https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt' localfile = './in/amsat.txt' print('Fetching ' + webfile + ' => ' + localfile) urllib.request.urlretrieve (webfile, localfile) tlefile = open(localfile, 'r') catfile = open('./out/amateur.cat', 'a') datfile = open('./out/satellites.dat', 'a') while 1: # read three lines at a time; strip trailing whitespaces line1 = tlefile.readline().strip() if not line1: break line2 = tlefile.readline().strip() line3 = tlefile.readline().strip() # catalog number; strip leading zeroes catnum = line2[2:7].lstrip('0') satfilename = './tmp/' + catnum + '.sat' if os.path.isfile(satfilename): continue print(" Adding " + catnum + " ...") catfile.write(catnum+'\n') datfile.write("\n["+catnum+"]\n") datfile.write('VERSION=1.1\n') datfile.write('NAME='+line1+'\n') datfile.write('NICKNAME='+line1+'\n') datfile.write('TLE1='+line2+'\n') datfile.write('TLE2='+line3+'\n') tlefile.close() catfile.close() datfile.close()