The Basics

There are a few main categories of functions in the AuroraX programmatic tools:

• Interacting with data sources
• Performing conjunction searches
• Performing ephemeris searches
• Performing data product searches
• Retrieving data availability and statistics information
• Uploading ephemeris and data product data

What functions can we do

Below is a list of the different functions that are available to do programmatically.

• Data Sources
  • retrieve data source information
  • create and update data sources (advanced)
• Conjunction, ephemeris, and data product searching
  • search for conjunctions
  • search for ephemeris data
  • search for data product data
  • retrieve information about a search request ID
• Managing data
  • upload ephemeris metadata (advanced)
  • upload data product metadata (advanced)

Next steps

The rest of the pages in this "Basic Usage" section have detailed examples of each of these tasks. The examples include the code for doing each in a variety of ways (ie. Python, IDL, Javascript, command line).