This article showcases the real − time satellite tracking and orbit prediction program for both the Linux and desktop using gpredict software. We can run in real-time, simulated real-time (fast forward and backward), and manual time control with this tool.
The satellite tracking software gpredict requires the following packages to be installed in your machine.
Although, we can run this program in Windows operating system too, this lab is specific to Kali Linux, so open the terminal after installing the prerequisite and hit the following commands.
Finally, Launch the GUI by the gpredict command after the aforesaid configuration. Here, the GUI as following;
We can choose the live orbiting satellite enlisted in the following image, and monitoring them particularly.