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Two Line Element Reader / Orbit Plotter

Given multiple NORAD Two-Line-Element (TLE) files, this matlab code plots the orbits of the satellites around Earth. This is meant to be a simple orbit plotting / visulization tool. This was developed for orbit visualization during my PhD thesis undertaken in the GPS Research Lab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University:

[1] T. G. R. Reid, "Orbital Diversity for Global Navigation Satellite Systems," Doctor of Philosophy, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2017.

This thesis is available at the following link: https://purl.stanford.edu/dc409wn9227

How to Use

'MAIN_TLE_READ_Multifile.m' reads in specified TLE files and plots their orbits around Earth. TLE orbit data be downloaded from the Celestrak website: http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/master.asp

'MAIN_TLE_READ_Multifile_ALL_TLE.m' does the same as 'MAIN_TLE_READ_Multifile.m' only is preset to read the TLE data for all operational orbits and plot them.

More Info

For more info, please refer to the Stanford University GPS Research Lab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics: https://gps.stanford.edu