SilverBack
11-29-2005, 11:34 AM
I just spent 30 minutes typing a thread and it timed out! Okay, here it goes again..
Background information:
I flew a satellite to 98,000 feet. The satellite took pictures every 00:01:57 for a total of 70 images. I have to find out what altitudes the satellite was at for every image it took. There was a telemetry device onboard that was to transmit information back every 30 seconds, but due to atmospheric interference and some glitch, it didn't do what it was supposed to. You can see the flight information at:
http://astro_wx.mae.okstate.edu/astro-03/
To keep this short and from timing out again I'll be conceise.
LinEst- didn't work due to the hh:mm:ss time format (I'm assuming that's why).
(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)- same problem
Assigning each second to its own array- received an overflow.
These are the things I've tried, and the results. My best guess for the next attempt is to get the time intervals into integer form, which means seconds, but a flight lasting that long is going to produce some very large numbers if measured that way.
If anyone has done this before or knows how I might structure my next attempt please give me a reply! I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel!
Thanks in advance.
Background information:
I flew a satellite to 98,000 feet. The satellite took pictures every 00:01:57 for a total of 70 images. I have to find out what altitudes the satellite was at for every image it took. There was a telemetry device onboard that was to transmit information back every 30 seconds, but due to atmospheric interference and some glitch, it didn't do what it was supposed to. You can see the flight information at:
http://astro_wx.mae.okstate.edu/astro-03/
To keep this short and from timing out again I'll be conceise.
LinEst- didn't work due to the hh:mm:ss time format (I'm assuming that's why).
(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)- same problem
Assigning each second to its own array- received an overflow.
These are the things I've tried, and the results. My best guess for the next attempt is to get the time intervals into integer form, which means seconds, but a flight lasting that long is going to produce some very large numbers if measured that way.
If anyone has done this before or knows how I might structure my next attempt please give me a reply! I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel!
Thanks in advance.