Import Satellites from dialog box (Data | Satellites | Import from Web button)

Category

Displays the different categories of satellite data available at the Celestrak web page.

TheSky6 reads the contents of formatted text file named <TheSky6 folder>\Data\Auxiliary Files\TSKelsoList.txt to determine the location of this data. You can edit this text file if you want to TheSky6 to use a different source (URL) for the TLE data.

Each line of the TSKelsoList.txt text file includes the URL of the TLE data, followed by the name of the satellite data.

• Fields must be separated by a "|" character.

• All fields must end with the "|" character.

Sample TSKelsoList.txt file:

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/amateur.txt|Amateur Radio Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/cubesat.txt|CubeSats Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/dmc.txt|Disaster Monitoring Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/education.txt|Education Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/engineering.txt|Engineering Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/galileo.txt|Galileo Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/geo.txt|Geostationary Satellites|

http://www.CelesTrak.com/NORAD/elements/geodetic.txt|Geodetic Satellites|