WXtrack in full ISS mode

In recent beta versions WXtrack there are a number of enhancements which allow you to produce a display very similar to that in the NASA ISS Mission Control Room.  Many of these were suggested by Michel Casabonne, to whom I am very grateful.  Some of these options are only available in the registered version of WXtrack, and require release V3.8.6.934 or later.

• One-column or two-column "blackboard" display.

• GMT display (shown in red above).

• Mission elapsed time display.

• Custom icons from Michel Casbonne for the ISS and the TDRS communications satellites.

• Custom labels, label colours and footprint colours for the TDRS satellites - you can rename TDRS-7 to T275W independent of the name in the Kepler data.  The labels will be shown horizontally and not diagonally as is normal for geostationary satellites.

• Hide the names of ISS-related objects and just show the icon.

• Correct display of footprints for geostationary satellites as seen from the ISS.  (As the ISS is well above the ground, the "footprint" of a geostationary satellite will be greater than normal, and will extend to the far side of the earth as seen from the geostationary satellite.)

• South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) shown on Michel's custom background map.

• Intermediate latitude and longitude lines on background map.

• Ground track displayed 1.5 orbits back and 1.5 orbits forward.

• Entry to and exit from eclipse periods marked on ground track.  These are D/N (day/night) values on the blackboard display.

• Near full-screen view with F11 key or right-click pop-up menu.  On my system I still see a tiny remnant of the "World Map" tab sheet label, and I hope it does not spoil your enjoyment of near-full screen view.

• Country boundaries can be displayed in Plate-Carrée mode.

• Extra Tools, ISS Weather, menu for display of real-time weather at US landing locations in your Web browser...

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Here are some of the options you can set for the ISS - they are not the options used for the screen-shot above.

Please note that to have the TDRS plotted, you will need to select them as Active satellites for the bank you are using.  I don't know how to determine which TDRS satellites are used at any particular time.