General Question How to calculate the position of any orbital spacecraft in the specific date?

[Sbb1413]

Hi! I want to calculate the position of Zarya in the specific date to recreate the STS-88 with the stock Atlantis in Orbiter 2016. But how?

 

[Thorsten]

It's probably tabulated somewhere in the NASA archives (I would assume the orbit wasn't long-term stable, so the elements drift over time) - then from that data you can work.

 

[DaveS]

It's probably tabulated somewhere in the NASA archives (I would assume the orbit wasn't long-term stable, so the elements drift over time) - then from that data you can work.

Archived Two Line Elements can be found here: http://celestrak.com/
Just go Historical Archives>Space Stations and click on ISS (Zarya) download a zipfile that contains a raw txt file with all the published TLEs for ISS (more correctly the first launched module, Zarya) from 1998 to 2004.