Searching for a database for spaceships, satellites, drones, etc.?

Question

Similar to this question except for space technologies—ships, satellites, drones etc.?

Answer 1

I would guess that scraping lists an timelines linked on the summary page Spaceflight lists and timeline (Wikipedia) will cover most satellites, probes and drones operational today and in the past.

Answer 2

I found this while googling:

The UCS Satellite Database is a listing of the more than 1000 operational satellites currently in orbit around Earth. Our intent in producing the database is to create a research tool for specialists and non-specialists alike by collecting open-source information on operational satellites and presenting it in a format that can be easily manipulated for research and analysis. It is available as both a downloadable Excel file and in a tab-delimited text format.

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_weapons_and_global_security/solutions/space-weapons/ucs-satellite-database.html

Answer 3

Nasa have a superb resource at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons which covers solar system objects. Satellites and spacecraft as well as asteroids, comets, planets etc

Answer 4

I can't help on the drones -- but NASA has a service called the Satellite Situation Center that will tell you the location of many spacecraft. I can only assume that they don't track clasified (ie, secrete military) spacecraft.

Another spacecraft location database is the one at N2YO.

Unlike aircraft and surface ships, most spacecraft are one-off builds. There are constellations of spacecraft such as STEREO, CLUSTER, GPS, and Iridium, and there are a few that are built similar for economy of scale (eg, GOES-N, GOES-O, GOES-P), and maybe some communications satellites.

You can get additional information about scientific spacecraft (both current and older) from the National Space Science Data Center.