The Telemetry Stations File

The telemtry.dat file contains a list of VLBI telemetry stations that are assumed to be observing with the satellite. For ground these stations are used for ground track calculations and are shown on the world map to help the user visualize the relative locations of VLBI ground stations and telemetry stations. The locations of the telemetry stations are displayed as blue squares on the world map. Each entry in this file consists of the name of the station, its elevation, its latitude and its longitude. The elevation value is given in meters and is either the distance from the center of the earth or the elevation above sea level. The latitude and longitude are listed in degrees with the longitude given as a value between and +180 (positive to the west of Greenwich and negative to the east). And the end of the file has and END statement which must be present to mark the end of the file. Any statements after the END statement are ignored so comments can be placed after this line with at least ONE empty line between the END statement and any comments which follow.