satellitetle 0.5.0

Fetch satellite TLEs from various online sources

The python package satellitetle provides functions to fetch TLEs from various online sources (currently CelesTrak, CalPoly and AMSAT).

It was forked from the python package orbit.

Usage

Fetch TLEs for a single satellite from Celestrak:

from satellite_tle import fetch_tle_from_celestrak

norad_id_iss = 25544 # ISS (ZARYA)
print(fetch_tle_from_celestrak(norad_id_iss))

Fetch a large set of TLEs for a list of satllites from all available sources:

from satellite_tle import fetch_tles

norad_ids = [25544, # ISS (ZARYA)
             4298,  # QIKCOM-1
             40379] # GRIFEX

tles = fetch_tles(norad_ids)

for norad_id, (source, tle) in tles.items():
    print('{:5d} {:23s}: {:23s}'.format(norad_id, tle[0], source))

NOTE: fetch_tles downloads the TLE sets from all known sources (>40 urls), so it should only be used when fetching TLEs for a large set of satellites.

Another usage example is given in example_fetchall.py.

License

MIT