unprojected plot of Singh 48-hour geosynchronous constellation.

Drawing satellite networks - satellite plot scripts

from Surrey | at SourceForge

These scripts allow you to draw topologies of satellite constellation networks with intersatellite links and paths taken by traffic on unprojected or polar azimuthal equidistant maps of the Earth.

These were created for use with the satellite simulation functionality of the network simulator ns-2, as described in Chapter 17 of the ns-2 manual, or for use with anything else that outputs satellite and link endpoint coordinates using the same simple text format.

perl 5 and xfig 3.2 are required to run these scripts.

Download the gzipped tarball:
sat-plot-scripts1.2-release.tar.gz (233K), version 1.2, 30 April 2023.

development code: current SVN repository, older CVS repository.

Previous versions:
ns-sat-plot-113.tar.gz (124K), version 1.1.3, 11 August 2000.
ns-sat-plot.tar.gz (124K), version 1.0, 23 June 2000.
original unprojected-map scripts by Tom Henderson.

To cite these scripts when using them:
L. Wood and T. R. Henderson, satellite plot scripts, http://savi.sf.net/, 2023.

Plots from these scripts have been used in:

Plots from the original scripts have appeared in:

The example plots below on this page show the Teledesic 288-active-satellite constellation (Boeing design) at a point in time. You can see the different satellites and two ground terminals as well as the different types of intersatellite links: intraplane links, interplane links, cross-seam links as well as ground-to-space links.

You can select from a number of background maps or even generate new unprojected maps using SaVi.

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Lloyd Wood (lloydwood@users.sourceforge.net)
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unprojected plot of Teledesic constellation
azimuthal equidistant plot of Teledesic constellation