diff --git a/application/controllers/Update.php b/application/controllers/Update.php
index 733f9a17e..3eeb84cc6 100644
--- a/application/controllers/Update.php
+++ b/application/controllers/Update.php
@@ -389,11 +389,17 @@ class Update extends CI_Controller {
 
     }
 
-	public function update_tle() {
-		$this->load->model('Update_model');
+    public function update_tle() {
+        $this->load->model('Update_model');
         $result = $this->Update_model->tle();
         echo $result;
-	}
+    }
+
+    public function update_lotw_sats() {
+       $this->load->model('Update_model');
+       $result = $this->Update_model->lotw_sats();
+       echo $result;
+    }
 
 	function version_check() {
 		// set the last run in cron table for the correct cron id
diff --git a/application/models/Update_model.php b/application/models/Update_model.php
index ad24d3335..f03626c26 100644
--- a/application/models/Update_model.php
+++ b/application/models/Update_model.php
@@ -359,13 +359,79 @@ class Update_model extends CI_Model {
 
 		curl_close($curl);
 
-        $mtime = microtime();
-        $mtime = explode(" ",$mtime);
-        $mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0];
-        $endtime = $mtime;
-        $totaltime = ($endtime - $starttime);
-        echo "This page was created in ".$totaltime." seconds <br />";
-        echo "Records inserted: " . $count . " <br/>";
+		$mtime = microtime();
+		$mtime = explode(" ",$mtime);
+		$mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0];
+		$endtime = $mtime;
+		$totaltime = ($endtime - $starttime);
+		echo "This page was created in ".$totaltime." seconds <br />";
+		echo "Records inserted: " . $count . " <br/>";
 	}
 
+	 function lotw_sats() {
+		$url = 'https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw/config.tq6';
+		$curl = curl_init($url);
+
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
+
+		$response = curl_exec($curl);
+		if (curl_errno($curl)) {
+			echo __('cURL error:').' '.curl_error($curl).' ('.curl_errno($curl).')';
+			return;
+		}
+		curl_close($curl);
+		$xml = simplexml_load_string(gzdecode($response));
+
+		$existingSats = array();
+		$this->db->select('name, lotw');
+		$query = $this->db->get('satellite');
+		foreach($query->result() as $row) {
+			$existingSats[$row->name] = $row->lotw;
+		}
+		//$existingSats = $query->result_array();
+
+		print '<table>';
+		print '<tr><th>'.__('Name').'</th><th>'.__('Display Name').'</th><th>'.__('Start Date').'</th><th>'.__('End Date').'</th><th>'.__('Status').'</th></tr>';
+		foreach ($xml->tqslconfig->satellites->satellite as $sat) {
+			$name = $sat->attributes()->{'name'};
+			$startDate = $sat->attributes()->{'startDate'};
+			$endDate = $sat->attributes()->{'endDate'};
+			$displayname = $sat;
+			$status = '';
+
+			if (array_key_exists("$name", $existingSats)) {
+				if ($existingSats["$name"] == 'N') {
+					$this->db->set('lotw', 'Y');
+					$this->db->where('name', $name);
+					$this->db->update('satellite');
+					if ($this->db->affected_rows() > 0) {
+						$status = __('SAT already existing. LoTW status updated.');
+					} else {
+						$status = __('SAT already existing. Updating LoTW status failed.');
+					}
+				} else {
+					$status = __('SAT already existing. Ignored.');
+				}
+			} else {
+				$data = array(
+					'name' => $name,
+					'displayname' => $displayname,
+					'lotw' => 'Y',
+				);
+				if ($this->db->insert('satellite', $data)) {
+					$status = __('New SAT. Inserted.');
+				} else {
+					$status = __('New SAT. Insert failed.');
+				}
+			}
+			print('<tr><td>'.$name.'</td><td>'.$displayname.'</td><td>'.$startDate.'</td><td>'.$endDate.'</td><td>'.$status.'</td></tr>');
+		}
+		print '</table>';
+		return;
+	 }
+
 }
diff --git a/application/views/satellite/index.php b/application/views/satellite/index.php
index 5040cc0fa..2a82f47c0 100644
--- a/application/views/satellite/index.php
+++ b/application/views/satellite/index.php
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 					<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" class="satellite_<?php echo $sat->id ?>"><?php echo htmlentities($sat->satname) ?></td>
 					<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><?php echo $sat->displayname ? htmlentities($sat->displayname) : '' ?></td>
 					<?php echo '<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="badge ';
-					switch (strtoupper($sat->orbit)) {
+					switch (strtoupper($sat->orbit ?? '')) {
 					case 'LEO':
 						echo 'bg-primary';
 						break;
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@
 						echo 'bg-info';
 						break;
 					case 'GEO':
-						echo 'bg-warning';
+						echo 'bg-secondary';
 						break;
 					default:
-						echo 'bg-light';
+						echo 'bg-warning';
 						break;
 					}
-					echo '">'.$sat->orbit.'</span></td>';
+					echo '">'.($sat->orbit ?? __('unknown')).'</span></td>';
 					?>
 					<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><?php echo htmlentities($sat->modename ?? '') ?></td>
 					<?php echo '<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">';