Parse Missions from Science.nasa.gov

We need to periodically update the iSat missions for the SMD group, so we need to pull down the missions we currently have. Do this by parsing the HTML on the page itself, since we don't have database access.

For each of the missions, make sure it's in the iSat SMD pull-down.

If not, I manually have to find the NORAD/COSPAR identifier for the satellite. Some of these missions are not satellites (e.g., their airplane-mounted instruments) or they're not Earth-orbiting satellites (e.g., deep-space or Mars-orbiting).

Then we'll need to integrate that with where iSat is pulling the SMD satellite list. TBD.

Install

Do the virtualenv and pip thing:

virtualenv .
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

It shows the Mission URL slug, mission name, SMD division, and operating status:

(mission-extract-data)bash-3.2$ ./missions.py
Row results:  208
ace                                   ACE                                             Heliophysics            3Operating
acrimsat                              ACRIMSAT                                        Earth                   3Operating
...
xmm-newton                            XMM-Newton                                      Astrophysics            3Operating
yohkoh                                Yohkoh                                          Heliophysics            4Past
Operating: 277

Misfeatures

The operating status gets the numeric database ID and the name as a combined item, due to how my parsing grabs the 'hide' data:

...<td><span class="hide">3</span>Operating</td></tr>

Shits and giggles

I saw this and never did any parsing scraping in Go, so I though I'd give it a whirl to see what it looked like.

Install

go get github.com/reedobrien/isat-smd-missions/getmissions

or if merged:

go get github.com/koansys/isat-smd-missions/getmissions

Usage

getmissions -h
  -json=false: Output JSON instead of tab delimited

Run

getmissions

or:

getmissions -json

or:

getmissions|pbcopy ## then paste into spreadsheet

Notes

It only gets Operating missions.