Dr. Kevin Kuciapinski
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Supports Dr. T.S. Kelso and CelesTrak, the world's first source for orbital element sets and related software and educational materials. CelesTrak is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit.
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🚀 22 days to go until #SWFsummit25 — Industry Insight & National Leadership.
The 7th Summit for Space Sustainability will bring together global leaders to shape the future of space through policy, strategy, and commercial innovation.
📍 Paris | 🗓️ Oct 22–23, 2025
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🚀 SWF’s @vsamsondc.bsky.social will join experts in Bengaluru on Oct. 6–8, 2025 for India–US Cooperation on Global Security, hosted by CISAC & NIAS.
She’ll speak on space security, SSA & India–US cooperation pathways 🌍✨
#SWF #SpaceSecurity #SpaceDiplomacy
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A Free Ride to Space. Something for AMSAT organisations?

orbitaltoday.com/2025/10/06/a...

#amsat
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A step in the right direction!
Future generations will thank us all!
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Thanks to all who made #IAC2025 a success. It was a very engaging and productive event. The #CelesTrak paper & presentation, "Understanding and Mitigating Data Limitations for Conjunction Assessments" by T.S. Kelso & Kevin Kuciapinski are available at celestrak.org/publications...

#IAF #SDA #SSA
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You can find the link to our paper and presentation at IAC 2025 on CelesTrak at: celestrak.org/publications.... Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Always nice to run into longtime CelesTrak friends like Space ISAC

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#CelesTrak #SpaceISAC #IAC2025 #SSA #SpaceFlightSafety #STM
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Thank you for the very neat photo MITRE!

#CelesTrak #SSA #CDM #SpaceFlightSafety #IAC2025
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It was a pleasure for CelesTrak to catch up with Victoria at Secure World Foundation at IAC 2025
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#CelesTrak #SWF #SSA #SpaceFlightSafety #IAC2025
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IAC is here! CelesTrak (Dr. T.S. Kelso & Dr. Kevin Kuciapinski) will be at IAC in Sydney (Sept 29–Oct 3)!
#IAC2025 #SSA
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6/ Even reasonably current 18 SDS GP data can be significantly off if it has not detected recent or ongoing maneuvers. Here are the current top ten--all Starlink--that are thousands of kilometers off: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen....
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5/ And if you look at the SupGP vs. GP Comparisons for Starlink: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen..., reverse-sorted by GP age, you will see the RMS difference for STARLINK-33890 is huge (as expected): 13,099 km. No idea why STARLINK-31318 isn't being tracked. Just one more thing to ponder.
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4/ These are 2 more examples of how SupGP data can help. Even large satellites in known orbits can be lost. Satellite operators are encouraged to share their independent tracking data to produce SupGP. Remember, if the 18 SDS GP data is old, so is their SP data. You may be flying blind to others.
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3/ For STARLINK-33890, the latest SupGP data is also 0.40 days old: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Its graph shows it performing stable orbit-raising , as expected: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... It seems to be untracked since orbit-raising began.
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2/ For STARLINK-31318, the latest SupGP data is 0.40 days old: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... Its graph shows it in a stable station-kept orbit: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... This data is freely and easily available to all users.
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1/ CelesTrak has a page that shows the active satellites with the oldest 18 SDS GP data: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... The second page includes 2 Starlink satellites: 58885/STARLINK-31318, GP data 17.64 days old & 65332/STARLINK-33890, GP data 10.32 days old. Both have current SupGP data.
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There continues to be an issue with the update frequency of the 18 SDS GP data, as seen in the graph below. Over the past several days, we have only seen one major update per day (zoom to 1m): celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen....
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It appears that when a cargo ship like Tianzhou-9 (64786) docks with a space station like Tianhe (48274), it stops getting independent TLEs and someone at Space Force types a command of the form "tie 64786 to 48274" so that 64786 just gets copies of 48274's TLEs. BUT....
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CelesTrak has ephemeris-based SupGP data for all 26 satellites from the Starlink Group 15-9 launch (2025-129) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB on 2025-06-17 at 03:36:50 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2025/06/16/l.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen....
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Congratulations Dr. Thomas Schildknecht!
Winner of the 2024 Space Data Association's
T.S. Kelso Space Safety Award!
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#SpaceFlightSafety #SSA
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It looks like 18 SDS / Space Track are having data problems again: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... As a reminder, CelesTrak offers SupGP data for ~75% of all active satellites, which can be particularly useful at times like this: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen.... All satellite operators are welcome!
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CelesTrak has ephemeris-based SupGP data for all 28 satellites from the @Starlink Group 6-83 launch (2025-099) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on 2025-05-13 at 05:02:20 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/11/l.... Data for the launch can be found at: celestrak.org/NORAD/elemen....