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Update installation.rst with TLE files
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mraspaud committed Nov 2, 2018
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.. _github: http://github.com/pytroll/pygac

TLE files
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The pygac package requires Two-Line Element files stored per-satellite
in files with names such as TLE_noaa19.txt. The name format and directory can be
configured in the config file (see the Usage section). The contents should be the
historical TLEs, i.e. a concatenation of just lines 1 and 2 without the satellite
name. These can be downloaded from space-track.org. Once logged in use URL such as
(replace CCCCC with the five-digit NORAD catalogue ID):

https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/class/tle/EPOCH/1990-01-01--2029-01-01/NORAD_CAT_ID/CCCCC/orderby/EPOCH ASC/format/tle

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