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June 22, 1995

In view of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis and its docking mission 
with the Russian Space Station Mir and the possibilities for naked-eye 
observations of this scenario, the SatTrack (V3.1) software package is being 
announced again.

SatTrack is a satellite orbit prediction and realtime tracking program with 
X Window System color graphics displays. The program has been written in 
C language and runs on a number of different Unix and Linux systems with 
X11R5. It not only displays in realtime where a number of satellites are but 
is also capable of controlling suitable ground station equipment, like 
antennas or optical telescopes, and radio communications hardware. In the 
autotrack mode it switches between various satellites as they rise and set. 
Predictions of passes of satellites over specified ground stations can be 
run off either interactively or in batch mode. 

For detailed on-line information check the new SatTrack WWW Home Page at 

         http://ssl.berkeley.edu/isi_www/sattrack.html

The source code distribution file sattrack-3.1.tar.gz (or sattrack.V3.1.tar.gz)
is available from this web page, and also from:

         ftp.amsat.org           /amsat/software/Linux
         archive.afit.af.mil     /pub/space
         ftp.jvnc.net            /priv/kupiec/sattrack
         ftp.ucsd.edu            /hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming
         nic.funet.fi            /pub/ham/satellite/tracking
         seds.lpl.arizona.edu    /pub/incoming


Stay tuned for future releases!


Manfred Bester
manfred@ssl.berkeley.edu

Manfred Bester
Space Sciences Laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720