Catalog
GCAT (Jonathan McDowell)
GCAT General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects
OpenL3Data productOrbital
Jonathan McDowell's independent catalogue of every artificial object launched to space, with launch vehicle, site, owner, mission type and orbital history; covers objects absent from the official catalogue.
Researcher compilation
Category
Cooperative tracks
Update cadence
7 d
Latency
7 d
Archive
1957 – present
Instruments
Satellite catalogue
Sources
Researcher compilation
Formats
TSV
Pricing
Free
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/gcat-space-objects
Access
Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.
Access endpoints
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Share and adapt for any purpose with attribution.
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