Design and Implementation of a World Wide Web Amateur Satellite Ground Station Gateway.

Abstract

The problem addressed by this thesis project is to connect two global networks, the Amateur satellite service with the World Wide Web. The ground station computer formats its data in the PACSAT File Header (PFH) format and the World Wide Web requires Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format. The approach taken to solve this problem was to create two conversion programs. The first program converts the PFH format to HTML for directory listings of messages and the second program decodes the telemetry downloaded from the satellites to a text file, both of which are made available to the World Wide Web server. The result is a gateway between the Amateur Satellite Service and the World Wide Web so that users can access the message database and telemetry of each satellite using a World Wide Web browser program. The gateway has averaged 350 accesses per day during five months of operation from 3057 hosts in 41 countries. Several e-mail messages have also been received commenting on the gateway's uniqueness, utility, and originality. (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA306087

Entities

People

  • Steven R. Bible

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Ground Stations
  • Html
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Stations
  • Telemetry
  • Web Browsers
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites