Satellite Catalogs?

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Hi Charles,

The satellite catalog by LSF is at https://db.satnogs.org , more information in the wiki entry.

And indeed some here fit orbits via radio tracking occasionally (e.g. see Soyuz-2.1a / Fregat Baikonur launch 2021-03-22T06:07 UTC - #97 by pierros), but not on an automated basis (yet).

The SatNOGS DB does stores all historic orbital data, but currently only the latest orbital data is available via the web interface & API. I hope this will change in the future.

Data Sources for Orbital Data in SatNOGS DB:

  • Celestrak/Space-Track. TLEs are fetched on a regular basis
  • additional automated TLE sources (e.g. CalPoly or AMSAT)
  • manual input by admins (e.g. from RF tracking or provided by satellite teams)

Data Sources for Satellite Telemetry in SatNOGS DB:

  • SatNOGS Network (from automated stations run by contributors)
  • directly from Contributors (via stand-alone telemetry forwarder software)

Data Sources for Metadata in SatNOGS DB:

  • The users (“moderators”). They provide satellite name, transmitter information, country of origin, operational status and more

This post only focused on the current status and I leave it to others to describe future plans around SatNOGS and Satellite Catalogs.

Best wishes,
Fabian

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