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Twitter Satellite Constellation Visualization Bot
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This post was intended as the start of a series on how to make a Twitter constellation visualization bot. However, recent updates to the Twitter API have meant that the repetitive nature of the posts have blocked the bot so I will be stopping this effort. I tried to modify my code to work with the new API but it has proved too time-consuming. Instead, I will be posting these GIFs to my personal website on a dedicated page.
Positioning for Space Traffic Management: an Overview of Challenges and Solutions
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Now for a bit of a technical one… This posts assumes you have some knowledge of TLEs and orbital mechanics. But even if you don’t I think there will be something of interest here for you anyway.
Tracking Objects in Space: The Rise and Reign of Two-Line Elements
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Brief History of TLEs
Keeping track of objects in space is no easy task. The first real concerted effort to systematically track earth orbiting satellites started back in 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1. The US government quickly realized they needed a way to keep track of all the objects in space and thus, Project Space Track was born. In the early days, tracking was done through a combination of radar, telescopes, radio, and even citizen observations. These observations were then manually reduced, and corrections were determined in order to generate orbital elements that could be used for predictions.
research-areas
Identifying the limitations of current orbital solutions in Space Situational Awareness
Argument of Latitude at which TLEs are produced for the two largest constellations based on TLE source.
High Fidelity Radiation Pressure Models for Spacecraft.
One area I am particularly excited about is the development of radiation force models for spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit. One of the major challenges that remains in the spacecraft operations community is the lack of an open-source, easy-to-use, and widely accepted community tool for high-accuracy radiation pressure modeling. This gap exists largely because ray-tracing software, which is key to accurate radiation pressure models, is daunting, compute-heavy, and time-consuming to run. Until recently, this level of modeling has been seen as overkill for most low-Earth orbit applications, where drag forces—far more uncertain—dominate the error budget.
High Resolution Earth Radiation Pressure Flux Modeller
Flux Modeller Development
Data Visualization of Satellite Constellations
Data visualization of resident space objects across time-scales is one of the specialities of the group. 
Future Space Populations Tool
Medium-term modelling of the space environment. 