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TLE Satellite Tracker

Access TLE orbital data for thousands of satellites including ISS, Starlink, and Hubble.

Access orbital data for thousands of satellites including ISS, Starlink, and Hubble.

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TLE API

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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

Install

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tle-satellite": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://tle.ivanstanojevic.me/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Desktop config is stdio-only; this bridges via mcp-remote. Native remote: Settings > Connectors.