---
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: maneuver-detect labelled maneuver dataset
tags:
- orbital-mechanics
- maneuver-detection
- space-situational-awareness
- satellite
- tle
---

# maneuver-detect — labelled maneuver dataset (v0.3.0)

The labelled dataset behind [`maneuver-detect`](https://github.com/astro-tools/maneuver-detect): a
curated set of satellites whose maneuvers are known from public operator announcements, paired with
the mean-element TLE history those maneuvers show up in. Versioned in lockstep with the library and
its model checkpoints.

## Recipe-first distribution

The raw multi-year TLE history comes from Space-Track, whose terms do **not** permit redistributing
the data or analysis derived from it — so the raw series is **never** shipped here. Instead the
dataset is published as a pinned reconstruction recipe you rebuild locally from your own Space-Track
account, verified byte-for-byte by a content-hash manifest:

| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| `recipe.json` | Pinned catalogue: each object's NORAD id, class, label source, fetch window. |
| `labels.json` | Parsed operator maneuver labels (epoch / window / type / Δv if given). |
| `manifest.json` | One SHA-256 per reconstructed series — the byte-for-byte integrity check. |
| `splits.json` | The frozen, leak-free temporal-holdout train / val / test partition. |

Reconstruct and verify with the package (Space-Track credentials in the environment):

```bash
pip install maneuver-detect
export SPACETRACK_USERNAME='you@example.com' SPACETRACK_PASSWORD='...'
maneuver-detect dataset build --out dataset/v0.3
```

## Class scope

- **LEO** — DORIS/IDS altimetry satellites (the Δv-labelled core) and SPOT imaging satellites.
- **MEO** — GPS (FCSTDV NANUs) and Galileo (PLN_MANV NAGUs); epoch-only.
- **GEO** — geostationary satellites: the GOES weather satellites carry operator-announced labels
  from the NOAA OSPO navigation summary, the QZS-3/6 satellites carry QZSS OHI operator Δv, and the
  Meteosat/Himawari satellites are self-labelled by longitude-drift inspection (best-effort).
- **IGSO** — the inclined/eccentric-geosynchronous QZSS satellites (QZS-2/4/1R), new in v0.3, with
  executed-Δv labels from the Cabinet Office of Japan's Operational History Information (OHI) files.
- **HEO** — the high-eccentricity regime is a reserved class with no objects yet: no ingestible
  maneuver source exists and self-labelling on deep-space TLEs is perturbation-dominated, so it is
  deferred to a future source.

## Licence

The authored artifacts (recipe, labels, splits, manifest) are **CC-BY-4.0**. The label sources pass
through under their own terms: DORIS/IDS open data; GPS NANUs and NOAA GOES navigation summaries are
US-Government public domain; Galileo NAGUs are reused with attribution (© EU); QZSS labels reused
under the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System website terms (CC-BY-4.0, "Source: Quasi-Zenith Satellite
System website"); the self-labelled GEO/HEO epochs are authored. The **raw Space-Track element
history is not redistributed** under any licence — it is re-fetched locally from each user's own
account. See the [repository](https://github.com/astro-tools/maneuver-detect) for full source terms.