toys!

[jinian]

Playing with orbits [from rasseff] doesn't work in Opera, but it's fun if you have IE handy. And if you go up to the directory level, there are fun things that do work in Opera.

Comments

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh my. I feel curiously... aroused.

[rubylou.livejournal.com]

You, too?

Are you a...geek??

Hi, Kylee!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

SHHHHHHHHH

Not in front of the OTHERS.

;)

Re:

[rubylou.livejournal.com]

C'mon, Josh...don't you think they might...suspect?

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

I TOLD YOU NEVER TO CALL ME AT THE OFFI-

er, uh, I mean.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

If you'd like to play a lot more with orbits, there's a free version of Satellite Toolkit available from Analytical Graphics at http://stk.com

It doesn't give you the high precision orbit propogator that I use, but it'll give you six different propogators that are pretty good, and will certainly give you all the precision you need to know when the ISS or another bright spacecraft will be passing overhead.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Wow, this an the other applets on that site are seriously fun. It's fairly sad that I get such a sense of accomplishment of managing to create a stable orbit :)

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

I spent a few minutes trying to get one in the L5 point. No luck. I think the moon's too big for that, it's supposed to be less than 4% of the planet or something.