Previous Topic

Next Topic

Book Contents

Book Index

Ephemeris Manager Broadcast Orbit view

The Ephemeris Manager Broadcast Orbit view provides detailed information about all broadcast orbits the Ephemeris Manager has collected. An additional table-in-table displays detailed orbit information for each satellite. For a description of the table columns see the following table.

Available columns in the main spreadsheet

The main spreadsheet displays the current satellite status. It is empty as long as no ephemeris data is available or if ephemeris data is older than one week.

Column

Description

More Information

Status

Icon indicating the health status.

Satellite is healthy.

Broadcast orbits too old or not available.

Too old: older than 2 hours for GPS and Galileo, older than 30 minutes for GLN satellites.

Satellite is unhealthy.

Sat

Satellite identification

Satellite system IDs are:
Cxx: A BeiDou satellite.
Exx: A Galileo satellite.
Gxx: A GPS satellite.
Jxx: A QZSS satellite.
Rxx: A GLONASS satellite.
Sxx: An SBAS satellite.

System*

Satellite system.

One of GALILEO, GLONASS, GPS, BeiDou, or QZSS.

Health *

Health indicator.

0 stands for healthy, all other numerals for unhealthy.

Iode*

Issue of data (ephemeris).

Not available for GLONASS.

GPS Week*

GPS week.

 

GPS Seconds*

GPS seconds.

 

Time

Date and time.

 

*

Filters are available or configurable for this column. Click the filter icon Icon Filter not set in the column header to open the list of filters. If the filter is set, the filter icon changes its appearance Icon Filter set (filled blue).

Table-in-table

Full orbit information for each satellite is available, if you go to the satellite row in the main spreadsheet and expand its view. The displayed list shows each standard parameter name, its value and unit, and a full explanation of the parameter.

See Also

Ephemeris Manager Almanac Information view

Ephemeris Manager Predicted Orbit Information view