Graphic reporting errors?

[Paul Gilmartin]

I'm having trouble connecting to celestrak.org.  (I hope I
didn't cause it by aggressive testing.)  To investigate
I disconnected from Internet and tried:
    satellites -> configure -> Update Now.

The GUI gives no indication of a problem other
than that "Last Update" doesn't change.
I do see in the log:

[ 117.343][WARN] [Satellites] FAILED to download "https://mmccants.org/tles/classfd.zip" Error: "Host mmccants.org not found"

[ 117.343][WARN] [Satellites] FAILED to download "https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt" Error: "Host www.amsat.org not found"

[ 158.581][WARN] [Satellites] Internet update already in progress!

[ 290.191][WARN] [Satellites] Internet update already in progress!

But I started from GUI and (like I suspect many users) rarely check

the log.It would be valuable to provide an indication in the GUI

o Of any operation that failed.

o Of any operation in progress, incomplete.

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Thanks,

gil

[JAY RESPLER]

Celestrak probably has safeguards to prevent users from logging in too often.

It would be a nice enhancement if Stellarium could unzip and directly update classfd.zip

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 4/24/26 00:24, JAY RESPLER wrote:
> Celestrak probably has safeguards to prevent users from logging in too often.

Ouch!  Has celestrak put me in a teergrube?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)>
Can I repair my reputation?
I get a similar failure on a public Windows machine.

I have no GPS.  If I click "Get Location from GPS," the
button turns yellow, indicating the failure.  If I disconnect
from network and click the "Get Location from Network"
checkbox (which should be an action button instead,"
I get no such obvious indication of failure.

> It would be a nice enhancement if Stellarium could unzip and directly update classfd.zip

>  ...
Or opened a file dialog which created a "file:''" URL.

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Thanks,
gil

[JAY RESPLER]

For Celestrak, log on less frequently than every few hours.