tle

Get these features with minimum reliance on bloated proprietary tools or Web-based "solutions":

• Extract TLEs from the current spacetrack catalog
• Powerful regex-based searching and filtering based on SATNO, international designator, launch year, inclination, or anything else
• Maintain your own local copy of the spacetrack catalog (requires Space-Track.org account)
• Generate look angles for any satellite(s) and any place(s) on Earth (Coming soon)

Install and Use

git clone git://git.raypatrick.xyz/tle.git
cd tle
sudo make install

The program is run with the command tle.

Dependencies

• Bash or Bash-compatible shell (for now ... soon it will be POSIX shell compliant)
• GNU sed

Optional

• cron - For scheduling automatic downloads of new TLEs
• space-track.org account - Required for programmatic downloads

Help the Project!

• Try tle on different machines and use cases (personal computers, Web servers, etc.) and report any errors.
• Submit bug reports, feature requests, or ideas to make existing code better.

See the author's website here. Email him at ray@raypatrick.xyz.

tle is free/libre software, licensed under the GPLv3.

To-do

• Add SGP4/SDP4 capability