SATPRO
High Accuracy Earth Orbiting Satellite Element
Propagator Software
SATPRO is an earth satellite tracking software package
for the IBM-PC and compatible class of microcomputers
running MS-DOS. The forte' of SATPRO over other software
packages is the accuracy of ephemerides produced and
the number of simultaneous propagations that can be
accomplished. The software is useful for optical as
well as radio tracking of earth orbiting spacecraft
for which standard NORAD 2-line Elsets are available.
This package was developed and
written by David A. Harvey of Steward
Observatory at the University
of Arizona to support satellite
imaging and tracking efforts
using several large telescopes atop Kitt Peak and
Mount Bigelow near Tucson, Arizona.
Early versions of this software
were used to obtain the photographs
of the soviet Space Station MIR published in the December
1987 issue of Sky & Telescope Magazine on page
580 and the of the Hubble Space Telescope published
in the July 1991 issue on page 32.
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