ivanstan / tle-api

Backend for TLE API on api.nasa.gov

TLE API

Code repository that powers TLE API backend, listed on NASA API catalog https://api.nasa.gov/

API provides up to date two line element set records, the data is updated daily from CelesTrak and served in JSON format. A two-line element set (TLE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time.

Usage

Further documentation and response examples are available at: https://tle.ivanstanojevic.me/

Available endpoints

The TLE API consists of two endpoints GET http://tle.ivanstanojevic.me

Endpoint	Description
GET /api/tle?search={query}	Perform search by satellite name
GET /api/tle/{id}	Retrieve a single TLE record where id is satellite number

Example query http://tle.ivanstanojevic.me/api/tle

Third party client libraries

• JavaScript https://github.com/ivanstan/tle.js
• PHP https://github.com/ivanstan/tle-php
• C# https://github.com/nichols-t/TLE.NET