Download TLE file failed

[Guangwei Wu]

I use satellite tracker 2.61 and found when I download TLE throught the botton, the file size is zero.
Then I execute iridium.bat and other batch file in command line and I thought it is a name and password problem.
How to solve it ?
And I suggest use Celestrak.com integrated without name and password.

Thank you very much.

[John Eccles]

Did you read the file called ReadmeWget.txt and perform the operations indicated in the instructions of that file? You have to obtain login information with Spacetrack.org before you can obtain TLE data. I would first verify that you can actually login to Spacetrack.org and can actually download the TLE data accordingly. Once you ascertain that you have accessibility with Spacetrack.org and you have edited your batch files as per the instructions contained in ReadmeWget.txt then you should be able to download the TLE data from within the Satellite Tracker application. If your TLE data size is 0 bytes then you are having a problem accessing correctly the Spacetrack.org website. Once you place your spacetrack.org user name and password in the respective .bat file you will no longer need to load that name and password again since it is now stored in the batch file. To edit the batch file select the batch file then right click the mouse button on that file and choose "Edit" in the drop down box. Then edit the file replacing USERNAME with your Spacetrack.org username and PASSWORD with your Spacetrack.org password. Save the file and then exit. Make sure that you use the exact username and password that you used to successfully log into Spacetrack.org account. You only have to do this once for each batch file.

The "Open TLE" button is meant to only open TLE files and not read Read Me files. So you will get an error since the data in a Readme file is not formatted correctly. You should open the ReadMe file with notepad.

The all data file should load but if you are at a slow internet connection you just have to wait for it to complete. It is a large file and takes time to download. You should see a DOS window popup and in that window you should see the progress of the download. Just be patient and it will complete. While downloading the application is halted until the download is complete so you can't do anything until the download is completed.

I have previously used CelesTrak.com before but you will find a larger selection of TLE data at Spacetrack.org.

[Zykov Vladislav]

Spacetrack.org no longer works. where now download TLE files? To replace a good site: http://www.tle.info/. You can rewrite the * .bat files for this site.

[John Eccles]

I just used spacetrak.org to download stations.txt and a few others and it worked okay for me this morning. There appears to be a certificate error but it is just a warning and does not prevent the TLE from downloading successfully.  See the attached picture of the actual download that shows success.

[Nic Mcmilan]

It's Sep 2018, how you guys getting your TLE's?
I am using ST2.6.1.

1. I can manually log into space track.org and manually d/l tle, then save each file, a little pain but the only way I get files at the moment.
2. For me the ST download does not work, it creates 0KB files.
3. TLEretriver also d/l files that are 0KB
4. Using "wgetdata.bat, after reading the readme and setting up my known working username and password in that file, it runs, closes the dos window and no files show up. I even logged into spacetrack first, same. I cant read what the dos window flashes up.

Thanks!

[John Eccles]

I just now executed my batch files to get the TLE data and my current batch files work okay. I was able to get the latest TLE data without any problems. Please review your edits and be sure that each line in the original file is a full line in the edited file. You may have had a wrap around on a long line as a result of your edit and this will mess up the download.

[Jimmy Andrews]

Setup visual tle download part 1 of 2
Hello OZ

The bottom 6 lines are from my visual.bat file
Delete the 10 X's and replace with your Space-Track Login Name
Delete the 10 Y's and replace with your Space-Track Password
Notice that I added a PAUSE to allow viewing Space-Track's response for troubleshooting.
After you are happy all is working ok, you can remove the PAUSE command
Jimmy


"wget1pt15.exe" --no-check-certificate --post-data "identity=XXXXXXXXXX&password=YYYYYYYYYY" --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=cookies.txt https://www.space-track.org/ajaxauth/login -o login.txt

"wget1pt15.exe" --no-check-certificate --keep-session-cookies --load-cookies=cookies.txt -O visual.txt "https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/class/tle_latest/ORDINAL/1/EPOCH/now-30--now/orderby/NORAD_CAT_ID/format/3le/favorites/Visible"

pause

del login
del login.txt
del cookies.txt

[Jimmy Andrews]

Setup visual tle download part 2 of 2
Hello OZ

I had added a PAUSE command to my visual.bat file to allow viewing the following for troubleshooting
The lines at bottom are from Space-Track's response to running my visual.bat file
The X's and Y's should be your Space-Track's login/password
Jimmy



C:\SatTkr>"wget1pt15.exe" --no-check-certificate --post-data "identity=XXXXXXXXXX&password=YYYYYYYYYY" --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=cookies.txt http
s://www.space-track.org/ajaxauth/login -o login.txt

C:\SatTkr>"wget1pt15.exe" --no-check-certificate --keep-session-cookies --load-cookies=cookies.txt -O visual.txt "https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/cl
ass/tle_latest/ORDINAL/1/EPOCH/now-30--now/orderby/NORAD_CAT_ID/format/3le/favorites/Visible"
--2018-09-16 07:28:00--  https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/class/tle_latest/ORDINAL/1/EPOCH/now-30--now/orderby/NORAD_CAT_ID/format/3le/favorites/Visi
ble
Resolving www.space-track.org (www.space-track.org)... 207.178.144.234
Connecting to www.space-track.org (www.space-track.org)|207.178.144.234|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify www.space-track.org's certificate, issued by '/C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go
Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2':
  Self-signed certificate encountered.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31271 (31K) [text/plain]
Saving to: 'visual.txt'

100%[===========================================================================================================================>] 31,271      --.-K/s   in 0.08s

2018-09-16 07:28:01 (399 KB/s) - 'visual.txt' saved [31271/31271]


C:\SatTkr>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

[Peter Ashdown]

hi ive tried all the suggestions for downloading the tle via satellite tracker and followed all the instruction but it still isnt downloading anything

[John Eccles]

Peter,

I just checked the download capability using my Satellite Tracker version 2.6.1 and the download was successful.

First, make sure you have an account and you can, indeed, log into the SpaceTrack.org website. Once you accomplish that then your changes to the batch files should work properly.

The batch file looks like this after download of the app:

"wget1pt15.exe" --no-check-certificate --post-data "identity=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD" --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=cookies.txt https://www.space-track.org/ajaxauth/login -o login.txt

"wget1pt15.exe" --no-check-certificate --keep-session-cookies --load-cookies=cookies.txt -O full-catalog.txt "https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/class/tle_latest/ORDINAL/1/EPOCH/now-30--now/orderby/NORAD_CAT_ID/format/3le"

del login
del login.txt
del cookies.txt

You replace USERNAME with your username exactly as you enter it at the spacetrack website.
You replace PASSWORD with your password exactly as you enter it at the spacetrack website.

All other data within the batch file should remain untouched.

To be sure nothing has changed at spacetrack I tried my batch files and they worked okay.

Regards,

John Eccles

[Peter Ashdown]

thanks john but i have done everything you mentioned i have an account and it works, i will re download the file and re edit see what happens .

[Peter Ashdown]

  ok john for some strange reason i re installed the program and re edited the batch files and now its working.
thanks