space-command 0.8

[0.8] - 2026-05-03

Added

• When retrieving TLEs from celestrak:

  • better timeout handling

  • better handling of empty page

• Use of appdirs for a better integration into the OS of the user

• events can now compute eclipses of the sun by the moon

• support for python 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14

Modified

• Change in build process. Drop setup.py in favor of pyproject

• Migration from Github to Codeberg

[0.7.3] - 2023-08-19

Added

• Python 3.11 support

• space tle displays total insertions from celestrak

• space station creation can now handle negative coordinates

• space log show current versions of beyond and space-command

Modified

• Subcommands are now listed without discrimination between official and third-party entry points.

Removed

• Python 3.6 support

[0.7.2] - 2022-10-14

Added

• Python 3.9 and 3.10 support

• Option to force CCSDS format (XML or KVN)

• space map add pause button

• space passes elevation graph

• space log colorized log

• space tle now parses GP data instead of old-style files

• space tle now inserts tles in chuncks to avoid sqlite locks (@hamarituc)

[0.7.1] - 2020-09-13

Modified

• follow beyond refactoring of listeners

[0.7] - 2020-08-11

Added

• space tle history range selection

• wspace backup command to create, list and restore workspaces backups

• orb2circle() function to quickly compute the circle of visibility of a spacecraft

• space opm and space oem commands for OPM and OEM handling.

• tox passes command-line arguments to pytest if provided after --

Modified

• refactoring of space map, as a subpackage

• parse_date() tries both default date format (“%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S” and “%Y-%m-%d”), allowing for more relaxed dates command arguments

• refactoring space sat with documentation on each function

Removed

• space ephem is replaced by space oem

• space station does not allow interactive station creation anymore

[0.6] - 2020-01-01

Added

• black code style

• Retrieve available pages from Celestrak

• Parse time scale of a datetime argument (i.e. “2020-01-01T14:36:00 TAI”)

• wspace can list and restore backups

• space planet display the download progress

• Support of Python 3.8

• space events can compute Argument Of Latitude, and specific stations events

• space map command arguments to start at a given date, disable ground track or disable visibility circle

Modified

• Sat.from_selector take a single selector and return a single Sat instance. Use Sat.from_selectors() for a generator.

• Refactoring the space.tle module into a subpackage

Fixed

• Correction of sorting algorithm for space tle

• space passes header

• Support of environment variable to set a proxy, even in async code

• map does not crash when an ephemeris is out of bound

Removed

• Support of python 3.5

• Unused imports

[0.5] - 2019-07-30

Added

• space map shows groundtrack

• space events can selectively display one type of event

• space sat subcommand to handle the satellite database

• space ephem subcommand to handle ephemerides

• wspace for workspace management

• space passes now has a csv output format

• space planet is able to fetch any bsp file defined in the config file

Modified

• Time span inputs normalized for all commands (20s, 3d12h5m, etc.)

• Satellites can now be accessed by other identifiers than name (norad=25544 and cospar=1998-067A are equivalent to “ISS (ZARYA)”). See space sat

• Logging is now with a timed rotating file

[0.4.2] - 2019-02-23

Added

• Logging

• Tests

• space events subcommand computes all orbital events of a satellite (AOS/LOS, Apogee/Perigee, etc.)

• space phase to compute the phase of available planets and moons

• groundtracks optional on map

Removed

• space moon subcommand. This is now handled by the more generic space phase

[0.4.1] - 2018-11-01

Added

• TLE database dump and statistics

• Station map

• Stations’ characteristics defined in config file are now set as attributes of the station object

[0.4] - 2018-10-20

Added

• Compute ephemeris of solar system bodies (Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Titan, etc.)

• Moon phase computation

• Centralized date handling, via command space clock

• Allow TLE retrieval from Space-Track

Changed

• Database classes are now suffixed with Db

• Subcommand retrieving data from the web now use the argument fetch instead of get.

Removed

• Light propagation delay no longer taken into account. The computation was tedious, and has been removed from the beyond library

[v0.3] - 2018-07-24

Added

• Possibility to create your own commands with the space.command entry point.

• Search TLE containing a string

• Retrieve all chronological TLE of an object

• space map displays real-time position of objects

• Compute moon phase

• Every command taking object names can also take TLE or CCSDS ephemeris via stdin

• add mask handling for stations

• Passes zenithal display optional

Changed

• MIT license replace GPLv3

Removed

• EOP database disabled by default.