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What's the difference between the SpaceX supplied TLEs and ones derived from other sources? More accurate? Updated more often?



> More accurate? Updated more often?

Yes. There's only one other (public) source, https://space-track.org/ which publishes tracking results from US military radars. But the tracking results aren't as accurate as the satellites' own telemetry data.




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