SatTracker for Android

11 things about SatTracker

1. It was designed with the needs of satellite professionals in mind, particularly those in Mission Control Rooms who need to see where relatively few satellites are with respect to the visibility horizons of the available ground stations.

2. As well as ground tracks, SatTracker calculates daytime, twilight and nighttime regions as well as calculating when each satellite is in sunlight so that it is visible – assuming there’s no cloud.

3. It provides ground tracks for multiple satellites, like some other applications, but unlike any others, it will compute visibility for multiple ground stations.

4. SatTracker is designed for real-world prediction of Earth-orbiting satellite ground tracks.

5. SatTracker uses the SGP4 algorithms which are ideally tuned to the publicly-available orbital elements and, as a result, generates the most accurate orbits possible with these orbital elements.

6. Powerful database functionality is built-in to allow the management of thousands of satellites and ground stations.

7. It is very accurate and, with fresh sets of orbital elements downloaded from within the application, it will keep that accuracy indefinitely.

8. To help with this, SatTrackerBasic can also display global cloud cover updated hourly (though this requires a paid subscription to a third-party data-provider).

9. The map can be displayed in two map projections: a simple rectangular projection or as a pair of azimuthal projections centred on the North and South poles.

10. Specifically for these engineers, the location of the South Atlantic Anomaly is shown (as requested during the development phase of the App).

11. Note also that SatTracker is a not a video-games quality, 3d graphics simulation, and was never intended to be.