{"id":776791,"date":"2024-02-11T17:14:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776791"},"modified":"2024-02-11T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:14:52","slug":"proba-3-satellites-acquiring-formation-simulated-in-vts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776791","title":{"rendered":"Proba-3 satellites acquiring formation, simulated in VTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Proba-3 satellites acquiring formation simulated in VTS.\u00a0To perform the real-time 2D and 3D visualisations the Proba-3 team realised they required, they turned to the\u00a0VTS\u00a0(Visualization Tool for Space data) software which is licenced freeware owned by French space agency\u00a0CNES\u00a0and developed by the\u00a0Spacebel\u00a0company in Belgium.\u00a0Regularly updated, VTS has been employed by numerous European space missions in the past, typically help plan complex manoeuvres and acquiring images for a given region of Earth or other planetary bodies. The Proba-3 team has developed a code in Python forging a real-time link between VTS and the incoming telemetry \u2013 for now from the simulator but eventually from the actual satellites \u2013 so the operator can really get an intuitive sense of the two satellites with a single glance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Proba-3 satellites acquiring formation, simulated in VTS\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1qsgc3Qh4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/02\/Proba-3_satellites_acquiring_formation_simulated_in_VTS?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proba-3 satellites acquiring formation simulated in VTS.\u00a0To perform the real-time 2D and 3D visualisations the Proba-3 team realised they required, they turned to the\u00a0VTS\u00a0(Visualization Tool for Space data) software which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}