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Spacecraft Launch Points

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Spacecraft Launch Points turns a whole spacecraft orbit into a set of field-line launch points: PSP's March 2024 ephemeris (about 744 hourly points) is downsampled by a stride of 12, leaving 62 points roughly one every half day.

Those 62 points feed Trace Multi Domain's lps port directly, so each one launches a field line traced through both the coronal and heliospheric domains via Inter-Domain Trace.

Raise or lower Downsample's stride to trade off launch-point density against how many field lines get traced.

Built from: Groups ▸ Stock ▸ Spacecraft ▸ Ephemeris; Groups ▸ Stock ▸ Tracing ▸ Inter-Domain Trace; Groups ▸ Stock ▸ Maps ▸ Coronal Hole Map.

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Inter-Domain Trace Coronal Tracer Heliospheric Tracer Coronal Hole Map Ephemeris Plotter (XYZ Plotter) PlotterXYZ Spacecraft (Spacecraft) Spacecraft Spacecraft Read (Spacecraft Read) Spacecraft Readsc Plot (Plot) Plotin Downsample (Downsample) Downsamplex Plot (Plot) Plotin cor br file (MAS File) cor br file cor bt file (MAS File) cor bt file cor bp file (MAS File) cor bp file Coronal Tracer (Tracer) Coronal Tracerbrbtbp hel br file (MAS File) hel br file hel bt file (MAS File) hel bt file hel bp file (MAS File) hel bp file Heliospheric Tracer (Tracer) Heliospheric Tracerbrbtbp Trace Multi Domain (Trace Multi Domain) Trace Multi DomaincorhelLaunch points Plot (Plot) Plotin Map File (Map File) Map File Read All (Read) Read Allreader Radius (Set Scale) Radiusx Plot (Plot) Plotin

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This template is in the library on this site but does not ship with PVA. Download Spacecraft Launch Points.pyv and choose File ▸ Open Session…, or put it in the templates folder of the PVA home to list it under File ▸ New from Template ▸ Saved. File ▸ Browse Templates… opens this site. See Templates.

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