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Operator of CelesTrak, the world's first source for orbital element sets and related software and educational materials.
@tskelso.bsky.socialCelesTrak has GP data for 10 objects from the launch (2026-230) of 9 GuoWang satellites atop a Long March-12 rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Site on Oct 9 at 1927 UTC: www.china-in-space.com/p/further-gu.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen....
@tskelso.bsky.socialCelesTrak has GP data for 15 objects from the launch (2026-229) of NEONSAT-2 thru -6 plus 10 cubesats atop a KSLV-2 rocket from Naro Space Center on Oct 7 at 0325 UTC: www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-paci.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen....
@tskelso.bsky.socialGPS
We continue to see these kinds of mismatches: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen..., despite the information on forecast delta-Vs (FCSTDV) and summaries (FCSTSUMM) being provided in NANUs by 2NWS (GPS Operations): celestrak.org/GPS/NANU/202....
@tskelso.bsky.socialAh, I see the error. I mistyped the name (should be ERMINAZ-2U), even though I just put it in the SATCAT. Sigh...
@tskelso.bsky.socialThis makes it sound like they are 3 identical satellites: www.nanosats.eu/sat/erminaz-2. I guess we'll see.
@tskelso.bsky.socialWe have made IDs for 4 more: ERMINAZ-2 (GER), HADES-L (SPN), CRIMSON-1 (SING), and SPRITE (US).
@tskelso.bsky.socialCelesTrak has 18 SDS GP data for 71 objects from the Transporter-18 launch on Oct 1: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... We have already positively matched 4 Planet satellites using their ephemeris-based SupGP data: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Only 67 more to go!
@tskelso.bsky.socialItems in brackets are an object type, like [GLONASS]. DTC is what SpaceX asked us to use (rather than D2C) for that part of their Starlink constellation. This is described in our SATCAT documentation at: celestrak.org/satcat/satca.... It helps discriminate a subset of a particular constellation.
@tskelso.bsky.social18 SDS has cataloged 1 object from the launch (2026-228) of NROL-97 atop a Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on Oct 2 at 0354 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/01/f.... SATCAT data can be found at: celestrak.org/satcat/table....
@tskelso.bsky.social18 SDS has just cataloged 23 objects from the launch (2026-224) of USSF-385 atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB on Sep 26 at 1400 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/25/s.... SATCAT data can be found at: celestrak.org/satcat/table....
@tskelso.bsky.socialCelesTrak has GP data for 1 object from the launch (2026-226) of Crew Dragon 13 atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Oct 1 at 1510 UTC: www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces.... See more at: www.nasa.gov/mission/nasa.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Now docked.
@tskelso.bsky.socialCelesTrak has post-deployment SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:32:00.103 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 69 satellites occurred 2026-10-01 19:26:17.523 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:37:10.623 UTC.
@tskelso.bsky.social18 SDS has cataloged 17 objects from the launch (2026-214) of USSF-259 atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB on Sep 17 at 0107 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/15/l.... SATCAT data can be found at: celestrak.org/satcat/table....
@tskelso.bsky.socialWe are still universally blocking SupabaseEdgeRuntime/1.74.x. But we will remove 35,251 IP addresses using those versions earlier in the month, as well. If you haven't upgraded to 1.76.0 or above yet, you should do that ASAP or you will be sent back to the firewall.
@tskelso.bsky.socialAfter gradually approving current variants of SupabaseEdgeRuntime/1.76.0 and above and seeing no problems, we are in the process of removing 50,105 IP addresses for those from the firewall.
@tskelso.bsky.socialWe strongly encourage all software developers to include an e-mail address in their user agent, so that if we find problems, we can contact them and get the issues rectified before a universal block might be required.
@tskelso.bsky.socialFor those that do, we will go back and remove other users of that specific variant from the firewall, with the hope of removing some of the tens of thousands of IP addresses that have ended up there because of the need to implement a universal block to keep CelesTrak functioning.
@tskelso.bsky.socialAfter a month of optimizing our firewall handling and cleaning up temporary processes, we now have a way to 'approve' SupabaseEdgeRuntime variants. We are starting with those including an e-mail address in the user agent. We will be carefully watching their adherence to our user policy.
@tskelso.bsky.socialCelesTrak has pre-launch SupGP data for the #Transporter-18 launch from Vandenberg SFB on 2026-10-01 at 18:17:59.990 UTC: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Deployment of 70 satellites is set to occur 2026-10-01 19:12:24.250 UTC until 2026-10-01 19:23:17.350 UTC.
@tskelso.bsky.socialWe have not worked out the formatting for the pre-launch state vectors yet (and adapting software). But we are getting ephemerides and processing that normally. I think pre-launch was pretty low priority for this launch, but SpaceX is committed to continuing to provide this through CelesTrak.
