juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest

--- license: cc-by-4.0 pretty_name: "Latest Starlink & GPS TLEs" language: - en description: "Latest Two-Line Element sets for Starlink and GPS constellations, updated daily from CelesTrak." task_categories: - tabular-regression tags: - space - satellite - starlink - gps - tle - orbital-mechanics - celestrak - sgp4 - open-data - tabular-data size_categories: - 1K<n<10K configs: - config_name: starlink data_files: - split: train path: data/starlink.parquet default: true - config_name: gps data_files: - split: train path: data/gps.parquet --- # Latest Starlink & GPS TLEs *Part of the [Orbital Mechanics Datasets](https://huggingface.co/collections/juliensimon/orbital-mechanics-datasets-69c24caca4ab3934c9856994) collection on Hugging Face.*   Latest Two-Line Element (TLE) orbital data for the **Starlink** (9,983 satellites) and **GPS** (32 satellites) constellations, sourced daily from [CelesTrak](https://celestrak.org/). ## Raw TLE files For applications that consume standard 3-line TLE format (e.g., SGP4 propagators): - [`data/starlink.tle`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest/resolve/main/data/starlink.tle) — raw TLE text - [`data/gps.tle`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest/resolve/main/data/gps.tle) — raw TLE text ## Schema (Parquet) | Column | Type | Description | |--------|------|-------------| | `name` | string | Satellite name (e.g., "STARLINK-1234", "NAVSTAR 78") | | `line1` | string | TLE line 1 | | `line2` | string | TLE line 2 | ## Usage ```python from datasets import load_dataset # Starlink TLEs ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest", "starlink", split="train") # GPS TLEs ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest", "gps", split="train") # Use with sgp4 library from sgp4.api import Satrec sat = Satrec.twoline2rv(ds[0]["line1"], ds[0]["line2"]) ``` ## Data source [CelesTrak](https://celestrak.org/) (Dr. T.S. Kelso), mirroring NORAD/18th Space Defense Squadron data. ## Update schedule Daily at 05:00 UTC via [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/juliensimon/space-datasets). ## Related datasets - [space-track-tle-history](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/space-track-tle-history) — 238M historical TLEs (1959–present) - [starlink-fleet-data](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/starlink-fleet-data) — Daily Starlink constellation health snapshots - [space-track-satcat](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/space-track-satcat) — Full NORAD satellite catalog ## Pipeline Source code: [juliensimon/space-datasets](https://github.com/juliensimon/space-datasets) ## Support If you find this dataset useful, please give it a ❤️ on the [dataset page](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest) and share feedback in the Community tab! Also consider giving a ⭐️ to the [space-datasets](https://github.com/juliensimon/space-datasets) repo. ## Citation ```bibtex @dataset{starlink_tle_latest, author = {Simon, Julien}, title = {Latest Starlink & GPS TLEs}, year = {2026}, publisher = {Hugging Face}, url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/starlink-tle-latest}, note = {Based on NORAD data via CelesTrak (Dr. T.S. Kelso)} } ``` ## License [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)