AMSAT Oscar Satellite Report API

Endpoint

https://amsat.org/status/api/v1/sat_info.php

This API returns satellite status reports in JSON format from the AMSAT Oscar Satellite Status Page.

HTTP Request

GET https://amsat.org/status/api/v1/sat_info.php?name=<SATELLITE_NAME>&hours=<HOURS>

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`name`	string	Yes	Exact name of the satellite as shown below
`hours`	integer	No	Number of hours of data to retrieve (defaults to 96 if omitted)

Response Format

The API returns a JSON array of report entries. Each entry contains:

name
reported_time
callsign
report
grid_square

Example Request

https://amsat.org/status/api/v1/sat_info.php?name=AO-91&hours=24

Valid Satellite Names

The following satellite names are valid for the name parameter:

AISAT-1, AO-123, AO-16, AO-27, AO-73, AO-7[A], AO-7[B], AO-85, AO-91, CAS-2T, CAS-4A, CAS-4B, CatSat, CUTE-1, DSTAR1, DUCHIFAT1, DUCHIFAT3, EO-79, EO-80, ESEO, FloripaSat-1, FO-118[H/u], FO-118[V/u+FM], FO-118[V/u], FO-29, FO-99, GO-32, HA-1, HO-107, HO-113, IO-117, IO-26, IO-86, ISS-DATA, ISS-DATV, ISS-FM, ISS-SSTV, JO-97, K2SAT, LEDSAT, LilacSat-2, LO-19, LO-87, LO-90, LO-93, MO-122, NO-44, NO-45, OUFTI-1, PARUS-T2, PicSat, PO-101[APRS], PO-101[FM], QIKCOM-1, QO-100_NB, QO-100_WB, QUAKESAT, RIDU-Sat_1, RS-15, RS-25, RS-44, SO-124, SO-125, SO-33, SO-50, SONATE-2+APRS, SONATE-2+SSTV, Taurus-1, TEVEL2-1, TEVEL2-2, TEVEL2-3, TEVEL2-4, TEVEL2-5, TEVEL2-6, TEVEL2-7, TEVEL2-8, TEVEL2-9, TO-108, UiTMSAT-1, UKube-1, UO-11[B], UO-11[S], UVSQ-SAT, UWE-3, VO-96, XI-IV, XI-V

Notes

This is a read-only endpoint.
All timestamps are in UTC.
This API is not stable yet ... we are still working on the time, and it seems a query for the list of available satellites is in order. For the moment, all reports show half past the hour that they were in.