Bug 459471

Summary: Satellites Not Shown
Product: [Applications] kstars Reporter: Bob Miller <rmiller61k>
Component: generalAssignee: Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: rmiller61k
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/commit/3a7edde827aa098269dfc74ad4caa0642aa09732 Version Fixed/Implemented In: 3.6.1
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Bob Miller 2022-09-21 04:10:29 UTC 
Kstars is not processing satellites. There are a multitude of TLE files in /home/bob/.local/kstars. These files used to contain the two line element (TLE) representations of the satellites. Now those files all say something like

<head><title>Document Moved</title></head>
<body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This document may be found <a HREF="http://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/geodetic.txt">here</a></body>

and that's it. No data.

If one goes to http://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/geodetic.txt you will find all the geodetic satellite TLEs. However, updating the satellite data via Kstars loads the same empty files.

A workaround is to go to the NORAD site and download the data into the appropriate .tle file. Kstars will read that data, plot the satellites, find a satellite in the Pointing menu, etc. However, after downloading and saving a .tle file, make sure to change the r/w permissions to read only; otherwise the next satellite update will overwrite with an essentially blank file.

Running kstars-bleeding

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SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: kubuntu (ubuntu 20 LTS)
All software (INDI, kstars, etc) is up to date 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Bob Miller 2022-09-21 04:13:01 UTC 
Make that a multitude of TLE files in /home/bob/.local/share/kstars
Comment 2 Jasem Mutlaq 2022-09-21 05:22:37 UTC 
Git commit 3a7edde827aa098269dfc74ad4caa0642aa09732 by Jasem Mutlaq.
Committed on 21/09/2022 at 05:21.
Pushed by mutlaqja into branch 'master'.

Update Satellite sources URLs
FIXED-IN:3.6.1

M  +-    --    kstars/data/satellites.dat

https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/commit/3a7edde827aa098269dfc74ad4caa0642aa09732