Solved Real stations! SASamPriceOP 16 Sep, 08:41 New Norcia, Cebreros and Malargüe are real ESA deep-space antennas. Love the attention to detail.
ZOZosiaN16 Sep, 15:00 Solutionreplies: 1For stage 2: normalise first (subtract 360 from values over 180), then reuse the exact same if/elif chain from stage 1. Validation goes at the very top.
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Yep, roughly 120° apart so a spacecraft is always visible from one of them.
For stage 2: normalise first (subtract 360 from values over 180), then reuse the exact same if/elif chain from stage 1. Validation goes at the very top.
That's what I did. Invalid check first, then normalise, then pick.
Nice little lesson in "clean the input before you decide".