BlueBird-6 Satellite Missing

[Anthony Mallama]

BlueBird-6 (NORAD 67232) seems to be missing from the “satellites.json” file. In fact, the NORAD numbers skip from 67218 to 67305. Some extremely bright observations have been reported for BB6, so it would be good to have that available.

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Hi!

сб, 25 апр. 2026 г. в 06:18, Anthony Mallama <anthony...@gmail.com>:

BlueBird-6 (NORAD 67232) seems to be missing from the “satellites.json” file. In fact, the NORAD numbers skip from 67218 to 67305. Some extremely bright observations have been reported for BB6, so it would be good to have that available.

NORAD 67232 has name SpaceMobile-006 according to Celestrak's TLE (COSPAR/NSSDC is 2025-309A) - the data was fetched by Satellites plugin in Stellarium.

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With best regards, Alexander

[Anthony Mallama]

Hi,

I just loaded a new set of spacecraft TLEs using the plug-in. Stellarium reported “13946 satellites; 0 added; 11192” removed. The JSON file contains no SpaceMobile spacecraft.

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[JAY RESPLER]

Hi Tony.

Instead of name, did you search for catalog #?

You can also just add it manually.

[Anthony Mallama]

Jay - 67232 is not in the JSON file and Stellarium does not find it.

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[Alexander V. Wolf]

Hi!

ср, 29 апр. 2026 г. в 09:13, Anthony Mallama <anthony...@gmail.com>:

Jay - 67232 is not in the JSON file and Stellarium does not find it.

Sorry, I was wrong - it's Mike McCants' TLEs: https://mmccants.org/tles/classfd.zip

        "67232": {
            "comms": [
            ],
            "groups": [
            ],
            "name": "SPACEMOBILE-006",
            "orbitVisible": false,
            "tle1": "1 67232U 25309A   26117.55759457  .00002255  00000+0  12397-3 0  9991",
            "tle2": "2 67232  52.9936 203.4802 0010315 342.4843  17.5794 15.18275586 18902",
            "visible": true
        },

 

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Damn! 

The correst URL for TLEs for SpaceMoble's satellites: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=TLE

ср, 29 апр. 2026 г. в 10:21, Alexander V. Wolf <alex....@gmail.com>:

[Anthony Mallama]

Thanks for trying. However, I added https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=TLE and https://mmccants.org/tles/classfd.zip but Stellarium still does not find SpaceMobile-006 (NORAD 67232).

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[Paul Gilmartin]

On 4/29/26 10:02, Anthony Mallama wrote:
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> Thanks for trying. However, I added https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=TLE <https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=TLE>and https://mmccants.org/tles/classfd.zip <https://mmccants.org/tles/classfd.zip>but Stellarium still does not find SpaceMobile-006 (NORAD 67232).
>
>     ...
Stellarium does not automatically extract archives.  some
OSes do so, but the pathnames will not be what Stellarium
expects.

It might be a convenience if Stellarium made it easier to
add file:// URLs to the Sources list, but users would
still be burdened with refreshing directories.

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 11:34 PM Alexander V. Wolf  wrote:
>
> Damn!
>

> The correst URL for TLEs for SpaceMoble's satellites: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=TLE <https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=TLE>
>     ...
>
NORAD makes TLEs available to Celestrak with the agreement that Celestrak will
not publish classified data obtained, however  legally, from other sources.

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gil

[Anthony Mallama]

Jay - Searching by satellite number does not seem to work. I can try adding the TLE manually. Thanks.