{"dataset":{"slug":"live-provider-registry","title":"Live Provider Registry","description":"The registry of real external scientific-data providers modelled with the honesty envelope — NOAA SWPC (space weather), NASA DONKI (solar activity), the Minor Planet Center and JPL/CNEOS (near-Earth objects), CelesTrak (orbital elements), and atmospheric conditions — each with its endpoint, licence, data kinds, and honest connection status.","version":"1.0.0","lastGenerated":"2026-06-29","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","entityCount":9,"sources":["nasa","noaa"]},"entities":[{"id":"live_data_source:atmospheric-conditions","name":"Atmospheric Conditions","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"The local conditions that decide whether an observing night happens. CLOUD COVER is connected, from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute: fetched by the reader's own browser, only when they ask, so their coordinates go to the institute and never to AsteriaStar. Atmospheric seeing, sky transparency and Bortle sky brightness remain unconnected and are never fabricated.","entryPath":"/live/atmospheric-conditions"},{"id":"live_data_source:celestrak-tle","name":"CelesTrak Orbital Elements","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"CelesTrak publishes two-line orbital elements for thousands of satellites, from which passes over an observer can be computed by SGP4 propagation. Evaluated for Program CL and NOT connected: the host refused automated connections. The ISS is tracked instead from NASA's own operational ephemeris, which is a separate provider.","entryPath":"/live/celestrak-tle"},{"id":"live_data_source:minor-planet-center","name":"IAU Minor Planet Center","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"The IAU's clearing house for asteroid and comet observations, designations, and orbits. CONNECTED: the NEO Confirmation Page - candidate objects awaiting confirmation - is fetched live and shown at /neo/recently-discovered.","entryPath":"/live/minor-planet-center"},{"id":"live_data_source:jpl-cneos","name":"JPL / CNEOS Close-Approach Data","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"NASA JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies computes close-approach tables and impact-risk (Sentry) summaries for asteroids and comets, served through the Solar System Dynamics APIs. CONNECTED: close approaches, the Sentry table and recent database entries are fetched live and shown at /neo.","entryPath":"/live/jpl-cneos"},{"id":"live_data_source:launch-library","name":"Launch Library 2","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"An open, community-maintained database aggregating the launch announcements of operators and agencies worldwide. CONNECTED: the upcoming schedule is served at /events/launches, with every entry's scheduling precision and last confirmation time passed through unchanged.","entryPath":"/live/launch-library"},{"id":"live_data_source:nasa-donki","name":"NASA DONKI","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"NASA's open database of solar and space-weather events — flares, coronal mass ejections, solar energetic particle events, and geomagnetic storms — served through CCMC's public web service. CONNECTED: four event catalogues are fetched live and shown at /space-weather/events.","entryPath":"/live/nasa-donki"},{"id":"live_data_source:nasa-iss-ephemeris","name":"NASA ISS Trajectory Data","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"NASA Johnson Space Center's Flight Operations Directorate publishes the International Space Station's operational trajectory openly: state vectors every four minutes in the mean equator and equinox of J2000, spanning fifteen days, in the CCSDS Orbit Ephemeris Message format. CONNECTED: the station's position, ground track and visible passes are computed from it.","entryPath":"/live/nasa-iss-ephemeris"},{"id":"live_data_source:nasa-gsfc-eclipse","name":"NASA/GSFC Eclipse Catalogues","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"NASA Goddard's Eclipse Web Site publishes the Five Millennium Catalog of Solar and Lunar Eclipses by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus — the instant, type, Saros series, magnitude and geometry of every eclipse from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE. CONNECTED: the twenty-first-century tables are fetched and every eclipse of 2001–2100 is served at /events/eclipses.","entryPath":"/live/nasa-gsfc-eclipse"},{"id":"live_data_source:noaa-swpc","name":"NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center","type":"live_data_source","domain":"science","description":"The United States' official source for space-weather forecasts and alerts — solar wind, the planetary K-index, the geomagnetic storm scale, and radio-blackout and radiation warnings. CONNECTED: eleven SWPC products are fetched live and shown at /space-weather, each with the provider's own timestamp.","entryPath":"/live/noaa-swpc"}]}