Questions tagged [satcat]
SATCAT is a catalog of satellites orbiting Earth.
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Is the United Nations Outer Space Objects Index anything more than a clone of the Celestrak's Satcat? Is it even that, or less?
This looks like this answer because that's where I found this.
Ars Technica's SpaceX Starlink engineers take questions in Reddit AMA—here are highlights included a reader poll when I viewed it, screen ...
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Out of 47,108 lines in the Satcat why are there exactly two lines with launch of the year of 000?
This looks like this answer because that's where I found this.
Celestrak offers a copy of a Satcat from which a tabulation of space objects can be gleaned:
https://celestrak.org/satcat/search.php
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Why is the NORAD Catalog number of SpaceX's Starlink's "Darksat" both 71130 and 44972?
@BowlOfRed's answer to Which of the recently launched Starlink satellites is the coated one? links to Celestrak's supplemental table for Starlink. https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/...
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Why does 2018-099 (SpaceX, December 2018) still have a dozen unidentified payloads?
According to today's Raw SATCAT Data from Celestrak, the launch designated 2018-099 (SpaceX, December 2018) still has twelve unidentified payload objects!
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What is "OBJECT BS"?
I checked 2018-099 in Celestrak's satcat again for the question Where can I find the TLE of ExseedSat 1, India's first ever private LEO satellite? and noticed that ...
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What happens when the 3-letter suffix space of a SATCAT ID gets exhausted?
The ISS' SATCAT ID is 1998-067A.
The CubeSats and other objects released from the space station are considered its sub-units, thus using different suffixes: 1998-067C, etc.
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