Visualizer Demo: Walker Constellation

The examples/visualizer_walker.py script demonstrates usage of the Visualizer provided with DSNS. It is simpler than Visualizer Demo, and only runs an example Walker constellation.

Demo script for the Walker constellation visualizer.

usage: visualizer_walker.py [-h] [--num-planes NUM_PLANES]
                            [--sats-per-plane SATS_PER_PLANE]
                            [--altitude ALTITUDE] [--inclination INCLINATION]
                            [--phase-offset PHASE_OFFSET]

Named Arguments

--num-planes

The number of orbital planes in the constellation

Default: 72

--sats-per-plane

The number of satellites per orbital plane

Default: 22

--altitude

The altitude of the orbits (km)

Default: 550

--inclination

The inclination of the orbits (degrees)

Default: 53.0

--phase-offset

The phase offset n between adjacent planes ((n / num_planes) * 360)

Default: 65