TLE-tools (Rust crate)

TLE-tools is a small library to work with two-line element set files.

Purpose

The purpose of the library is to parse TLE sets into convenient TLE structures.

From Wikipedia:

A two-line element set (TLE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time, the epoch. The TLE data representation is specific to the simplified perturbations models (SGP, SGP4, SDP4, SGP8 and SDP8), so any algorithm using a TLE as a data source must implement one of the SGP models to correctly compute the state at a time of interest. TLEs can describe the trajectories only of Earth-orbiting objects.

Example:

ISS (ZARYA)
1 25544U 98067A   19249.04864348  .00001909  00000-0  40858-4 0  9990
2 25544  51.6464 320.1755 0007999  10.9066  53.2893 15.50437522187805

TLE format specification

Some more or less complete TLE format specifications can be found on the following websites:

• Wikipedia
• NASA
• CelesTrak
• Space-Track

Links

• Repository: https://github.com/FedericoStra/tletools-rs
• Documentation: https://docs.rs/tletools
• Releases: https://crates.io/crates/tletools
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/FedericoStra/tletools-rs/issues