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(BUG?) New satellites not add when update from local TLE

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
22/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop

Research direction

The payload names no source files, so the first step is locating the local TLE file import path in the codebase. Reproduce it with a TLE file that contains a satellite missing from the database, then check whether the import skips unknown catalog numbers. Done means new satellites from the file are added. The report is unconfirmed (the title ends in "BUG?") and has had no comment for about 1332 days, so confirm the behaviour with a maintainer before writing a fix.

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Description

When I update the TLEs from a local file satellites that are in the file but not in the GPredict database are not added.

  • Win 10 x64 (21H2, 19044.1706)
  • GPredict 2.2.1
Dominant language
C
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Merged PRs (30d)
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