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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Aviation Edge Satellites API
version: v2
description: 'Aviation Edge provides global aviation data: real-time flight tracking, historical and future airport schedules, airline routes, NOTAMs, satellite tracking, and static airport, airline, aircraft, city, country, tax and timezone databases.'
contact:
name: Aviation Edge
url: https://aviation-edge.com/contact/
termsOfService: https://aviation-edge.com/api-terms-of-service/
servers:
- url: https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public
description: Aviation Edge public v2 API
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Satellites
description: Satellite tracking data
paths:
/satelliteDetails:
get:
tags:
- Satellites
summary: Satellite tracker
description: Returns orbiting satellites and objects with their propagated position, orbital elements and TLE sets.
operationId: getSatelliteDetails
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Key'
- name: code
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: NORAD catalog number
- name: launchYear
in: query
schema:
type: integer
description: Year of launch
- name: intldes
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: NSSDC international designator
- name: orbitalapogee
in: query
schema:
type: integer
description: Orbital apogee filter
- name: orbitalperigee
in: query
schema:
type: integer
description: Orbital perigee filter
- name: limit
in: query
schema:
type: integer
maximum: 30000
description: Maximum records to return
responses:
'200':
description: Satellite tracker result set. An error is also returned with HTTP 200 and the Error envelope.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Satellite'
examples:
sample:
summary: Published provider example
value:
- code: 408
country: US
intldes: 1961-015EH
launchDate: '1961-06-29'
launchNum: '15'
launchPart: EH
launchYear: '1961'
name: THOR ABLESTAR DEB
orbitalApogee: '1035'
orbitalInclination: '66.79'
orbitalPerigee: '929'
orbitalPeriod: '104.73'
result:
ECI:
posX: 0.5454890369
posY: -0.2586148768
posZ: -0.9850851542
velX: 0.0575062685
velY: 0.0304486006
velZ: 0.0232874073
geography:
alt: 1006.4047009328
lat: -58.6467050931
lon: 129.4707358377
satelliteInfo:
classification: U
idLaunchNumber: '015'
idLaunchPiece: 'EH '
idLaunchYear: '61'
orbit: 99888
rightAscension: 21.7828
satnumber: 408
size: MEDIUM
tle1: 1 408U 61015EH 20129.79820524 -.00000021 +00000-0 +54301-4 0 9997
tle2: 2 408 066.7883 021.7828 0070545 199.3274 220.5694 13.74946678998881
type: DEBRIS
updated: 1589063274000
externalDocs:
url: https://aviation-edge.com/satellite-tracking-api/
description: Provider documentation
components:
parameters:
Key:
name: key
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: Aviation Edge API key
schemas:
Satellite:
type: object
properties:
code:
type: integer
description: NORAD catalog number
country:
type: string
intldes:
type: string
description: NSSDC international designator
launchDate:
type: string
launchNum:
type: string
launchPart:
type: string
launchYear:
type: string
name:
type: string
orbitalApogee:
type: string
orbitalInclination:
type: string
orbitalPerigee:
type: string
orbitalPeriod:
type: string
result:
type: object
properties:
ECI:
type: object
properties:
posX:
type: number
posY:
type: number
posZ:
type: number
velX:
type: number
velY:
type: number
velZ:
type: number
geography:
type: object
properties:
alt:
type: number
lat:
type: number
lon:
type: number
satelliteInfo:
type: object
properties:
classification:
type: string
idLaunchNumber:
type: string
idLaunchPiece:
type: string
idLaunchYear:
type: string
orbit:
type: integer
rightAscension:
type: number
satnumber:
type: integer
size:
type: string
tle1:
type: string
tle2:
type: string
type:
type: string
updated:
type: integer
description: An orbiting satellite or object, with its current propagated position and TLE set.
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
type: apiKey
in: query
name: key
description: API key issued with an Aviation Edge subscription, passed as the `key` query parameter.
externalDocs:
url: https://aviation-edge.com/developers/
description: Aviation Edge developer documentation
x-provenance:
generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: 'Harvested from Aviation Edge first-party sources: the provider GitHub account github.com/AviationEdgeAPI (Aviation-Edge-Complete-API, Notam-API, Satellite-Tracker-API, Airport-Schedules-API, Historical-Schedules-API, Future-Schedules-API, Airline-Routes-API, Autocomplete-API, Static-Aviation-APIs READMEs) and the developer documentation at https://aviation-edge.com/developers/. Paths and required parameters were confirmed with unauthenticated live probes against https://aviation-edge.com/v2/public/ on 2026-09-04.'