asteRisk1.4.4 package

Computation of Satellite Position

calculateRazel

Calculates azimuth, elevation and range of a given object

dateTimeToMJD

Calculate Modified Julian Date for a given date and time

deg2rad

Converts an angle in degrees to radians

ECItoKOE

Calculate ECI coordinates from Keplerian orbital elements

GCRFtoITRF

Convert coordinates from GCRF to ITRF

GCRFtoLATLON

Convert coordinates from GCRF to geodetic latitude, longitude and alti...

getLatestSpaceData

Retrieves the latest space data

hpop

High-precision numerical orbital propagator

ITRFtoGCRF

Convert coordinates from ITRF to GCRF

ITRFtoLATLON

Convert coordinates from ITRF to geodetic latitude, longitude and alti...

JPLephemerides

Calculate JPL main celestial objects ephemerides for a given Modified ...

KOEtoECI

Calculate ECI coordinates from Keplerian orbital elements

LATLONtoGCRF

Convert coordinates from geodetic latitude, longitude and altitude to ...

LATLONtoITRF

Convert coordinates from geodetic latitude, longitude and altitude to ...

parseTLElines

Parse the lines of a TLE

rad2deg

Converts an angle in radians to degrees

readGLONASSNavigationRINEX

Read a RINEX navigation file for GLONASS satellites

readGPSNavigationRINEX

Read a RINEX navigation file for GPS satellites

readOEM

Read an Orbital Ephemeris Message file

readTLE

Read a TLE file

revDay2radMin

Converts revolutions per day to radians per minute

sdp4

Propagate an orbital state vector with the SDP4 model

sgdp4

Propagate an orbital state vector with the SGP4/SDP4 model

sgp4

Propagate an orbital state vector with the SGP4 model

TEMEtoGCRF

Convert coordinates from TEME to GCRF

TEMEtoITRF

Convert coordinates from TEME to ITRF

TEMEtoLATLON

Convert coordinates from TEME to geodetic latitude, longitude and alti...

Provides basic functionalities to calculate the position of satellites given a known state vector. The package includes implementations of the SGP4 and SDP4 simplified perturbation models to propagate orbital state vectors, as well as utilities to read TLE files and convert coordinates between different frames of reference. Several of the functionalities of the package (including the high-precision numerical orbit propagator) require the coefficients and data included in the 'asteRiskData' package, available in a 'drat' repository. To install this data package, run 'install.packages("asteRiskData", repos="https://rafael-ayala.github.io/drat/")'. Felix R. Hoots, Ronald L. Roehrich and T.S. Kelso (1988) <https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/spacetrk.pdf>. David Vallado, Paul Crawford, Richard Hujsak and T.S. Kelso (2012) <doi:10.2514/6.2006-6753>. Felix R. Hoots, Paul W. Schumacher Jr. and Robert A. Glover (2014) <doi:10.2514/1.9161>.

  • Maintainer: Rafael Ayala
  • License: GPL-3
  • Last published: 2025-08-20