Published: 28 Mar 2023 › Updated: 28 Mar 2023

SpaceTime Position Format GPS Hexadecimal Python Script
We wrote a python script for encoding SpaceTime in a new way
import struct
import datetime
from geopy.distance import great_circle
from geopy import Point
from pytz import timezone
import pyproj
from math import sqrt
def gps_to_xyz(latitude, longitude, altitude, time):
"""
Converts GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude, altitude) and time to Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z, t)
"""
transformer = pyproj.transformer.Transformer.from_crs('EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:4978') # define transformation from WGS84 to ECEF
x, y, z = transformer.transform(longitude, latitude, altitude)
est_time = time.astimezone(timezone('US/Eastern'))
t = (est_time.year, est_time.month, est_time.day, est_time.hour * 3600 + est_time.minute * 60 + est_time.second)
t_seconds = t[3] + (t[2] - 1) * 86400 + sum([((month - 1) * 30 + (month - 1) // 2) * 86400 for month in range(1, t[1])]) + (t[0] - 1970) * 31536000
return x, y, z, t_seconds
def to_stpf(position, time):
"""
Converts a position and time value to STPF format
"""
x, y, z, t = position
timestamp = int(t * 10**6) # convert time to microseconds since epoch
stpf = struct.pack('!dddq', x, y, z, timestamp) # pack position and time into STPF format
return stpf
# Example usage
while True:
latitude = float(input('Enter latitude in decimal degrees: '))
longitude = float(input('Enter longitude in decimal degrees: '))
altitude = float(input('Enter altitude in meters: '))
utc_time = datetime.datetime.utcnow() # Current UTC time
position = gps_to_xyz(latitude, longitude, altitude, utc_time) # Convert GPS coordinates and time to Cartesian coordinates
c = 299792458.0 # speed of light in m/s
v = 0.5 * c # velocity relative to Earth in m/s
x, y, z, t = position
t_prime = (t - (v * x)/(c**2))/sqrt(1 - (v**2/c**2))
position_prime = (x, y, z, t_prime)
stpf = to_stpf(position_prime, utc_time)
print(stpf.hex()) # Print STPF value as hexadecimal string
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