pysatMissions 0.2.2

'Mission Planning toolkit for pysat'

pysatMissions

pysatMissions allows users to run build simulated satellites for Two-Line Elements (TLE) and add empirical data. It includes the missions_ephem and mission_sgp4 instrument modules which can be imported into pysat.

Main Features

• Simulate satellite orbits from TLEs and add data from empirical models
• Import ionosphere and thermosphere model values through pyglow
• Import magnetic coordinates through apexpy and aacgmv2
• Import geomagnetic basis vectors through OMMBV

Documentation

Full Documentation for main package

Installation

Prerequisites

pysatMissions uses common Python modules, as well as modules developed by and for the Space Physics community. This module officially supports Python 3.7+.

Common modules	Community modules
numpy	aacgmv2
pandas	apexpy
pyEphem	OMMBV
sgp4	pysat>=3.0

One way to install is through pip. Just type

pip install pysatMissions

into the terminal.

Or, if you prefer to work directly from github, checkout the repository:

git clone https://github.com/pysat/pysatMissions.git

Change directories into the repository folder and run the setup.py file. For a local install use the "--user" flag after "install".

cd pysatMissions/
python setup.py install

Note: pre-1.0.0 version

pysatMissions is currently in an initial development phase and requires pysat 3.0.0.

Using with pysat

The instrument modules are portable and designed to be run like any pysat instrument.

import pysat
from pysatMissions.instruments import missions_ephem

simInst = pysat.Instrument(inst_module=missions_ephem)

Another way to use the instruments in an external repository is to register the instruments. This only needs to be done the first time you load an instrument. Afterward, pysat will identify them using the platform and name keywords.

import pysat
import pysatMissions

pysat.utils.registry.register_by_module(pysatMissions.instruments)
simInst = pysat.Instrument('missions', 'ephem')