Devlog 3 - 6/19/2026

alrighty, today was a pretty packed day, finished orbital math and started filtering down on the raw csv data i pulled in from celestrak and now working on a base engine and am building a parser to convert a lot of the data in the original csvs from celestrak from degrees to radians to later on pass through to my models cuz models work better with radians

had a bit of a mess with python module errors but got it sorted out by fixing the import paths and running things as modules from the root folder. now the whole project is super clean and molded well. main.py is the conductor, data_fetcher gets the data, orbital_math does the physics, and the base engine loops through all the files

also upgraded the backend to use pandas instead of trying to split text strings by hand. it automatically drops any rows missing data so the math doesnt break. then it passes the columns through the radian formulas and calculates the semi-major axis

the biggest win is that it fully hooks up to the 3d formulas now. the engine loops through every single csv file in the folder and spits out clean X, Y, Z spatial coordinates for thousands of satellites all at once. the pipeline is officially alive and ready for the ai models next.