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  • Communications 14,117
  • Earth observation 1,512
  • Space observation 72
  • Other 1,774

Positions modelled from public orbital elements (3 Oct 2026), not live tracking. Point at any light to identify it · click anywhere on Earth to see who can image it next.

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17,469 spacecraft in the catalog

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FIG. 02 — The catalog

Catalogued spacecraft by launch year

91% of the 17,469 spacecraft in the catalog launched in 2020 or later. The 16,711 with published orbits are on the globe, placed from their public orbital elements (modelled, not live tracking).

FIG. 03 — Earth observation

Earth observation, inclination against altitude

1,512 Earth-observation spacecraft. Most fly sun-synchronous orbits near 97°, crossing each latitude at the same local time, like Landsat 9, painting its 185 km swath on the globe. Ask for an area, a resolution, cloud cover and revisit.

FIG. 04 — Communications

Communications spacecraft by altitude

14,117 in the catalog, from the low-orbit shells near 500 km to the geostationary belt at 35,786 km. Request throughput, latency, band, terminals and availability for a region or a set of sites.

FIG. 05 — Space observation

Space observation, in orbit now

72 spacecraft that observe other objects in orbit, each locked on the globe in turn. Inspection, fly-bys, debris characterisation and astronomy.

FIG. 06 — Docker Doctor · In-orbit servicing

Any spacecraft can be the client

The International Space Station, modelled from its public elements. Request inspection, orbital readjustment, repair or refit for any named spacecraft in the catalog.

FIG. 07 — The problem

Buying from space still runs on email. There are thousands of working spacecraft and a growing list of operators, yet a team that needs imagery of a port still has to work out who can do it, then run a separate sales process with every provider.

  1. P-01Capability is hard to see. Specifications are scattered across catalogs, operator sites and filings, in different units and levels of trust.
  2. P-02Every provider sells differently. Separate contacts, contracts and quote formats make options slow to compare.
  3. P-03Results arrive without context. Files land in inboxes, cut off from their licence, their source and what was actually observed.

A few of the 1,512 Earth-observation spacecraft in the catalog · NORAD ID

  • SENTINEL-3C 100690
  • LANDSAT 9 49260
  • ICEYE-X79 69870
  • CAPELLA-20 68485
  • PLEIADES NEO 4 49070
  • NISAR 65053
  • WORLDVIEW-3 40115
  • KOMPSAT-7 66820
  • ALOS-4 60182
  • UMBRA-12 67371
  • CARTOSAT-3 44804
  • EARTHCARE 59908
  • SWOT 54754
  • TERRASAR-X 31698
  • RADARSAT-2 32382
  • CSG-3 67304
  • GOES 19 60133
  • SAOCOM 1B 46265

FIG. 08 — The platform

One workflow, three products.

  1. 01 / Discover

    StarSearch

    Describe the mission in plain words. Every candidate appears on a 3D globe with the evidence behind the match, and gaps in the record are flagged instead of filled.

  2. 02 / Decide and track

    Mission Control

    Our team reviews each brief with operators who can fulfil it and publishes quotes. Accept one, then follow the schedule and every event on one timeline.

  3. 03 / Receive and analyse

    SatSuite

    Results land in a private library, virus-scanned, hashed and licensed. Catalog facts, our findings and provider statements stay side by side, never blended.

StarSearch after typing SAR imagery at 1 m resolution: the request is read as Earth observation, SAR sensor, maximum 1 m resolution, and 359 matching spacecraft are shown on the globe.
Fig. 08a StarSearch, a real query on the live catalog: 359 matches, 280 flagged where the catalog lacks the detail.
Mission Control: an accepted quote of USD 1,200 to 1,900 with its licence, a timeline from request submitted through review and quote to mission scheduled, and the mission window with its provider.
Fig. 08b Mission Control, shown with demonstration data.
SatSuite dossier with three columns: the catalog record for ISS (Zarya), findings observed by the team on the mission, and statements quoted from the provider.
Fig. 08c SatSuite dossier, shown with demonstration data.

FIG. 09 — How it works

From question to results in five steps.

  1. 01

    Describe

    Say what you need in plain words, or pick a service family and set requirements.

  2. 02

    Shortlist

    Compare matching spacecraft on the globe or as a list, with the evidence behind each match.

  3. 03

    Brief

    Submit one brief with the area or target, time window and requirements. Missing details can follow later.

  4. 04

    Quote

    Our team reviews the brief with capable operators and publishes quotes. Accepting never charges a card or commands a spacecraft.

  5. 05

    Receive

    Follow the mission in Mission Control and inspect the delivered results in SatSuite.

FIG. 10 — Who it's for

For teams that need answers from orbit, not a space programme.

AspectCommercial teamsGovernment and defence
WhoInsurance, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, maritime and analytics teamsAgencies, emergency-response teams, defence and security integrators
NeedImagery or capacity without becoming space expertsCapability with an audit trail
BuyingOne brief instead of a sales process per providerEvery request reviewed by people; nothing is tasked automatically
TermsQuotes you can compare, with licence terms up frontProvenance on every result: what the catalog records, what was observed, what the provider states
DeliveryResults your analysts can open, check and share in one workspaceRole-based workspaces, private file delivery, multi-factor sign-in for our staff

FIG. 11 — How we handle data

Honest about what the data can and cannot tell you.

  1. D-01

    Modelled, and labelled that way

    Positions come from public orbital elements and are marked as modelled. Stale elements are flagged rather than shown as current.

  2. D-02

    Evidence, not guesses

    A match is shown with the catalog evidence behind it. When a requirement is not recorded for a spacecraft, we say so.

  3. D-03

    Licences enforced

    Originals are released only when the licence allows it. Otherwise you get a preview with metadata removed, and the original's hash for audit.

FIG. 12 — Team

Built by people who hit the wall themselves.

Donghyun needed current imagery of the Weddell Sea for research on Antarctic upwelling and found there was no way to get it. Beomjun, building a CubeSat at Berkeley, watched his team rebuild capabilities that were already in orbit because they had no access to the hardware up there. Anaxes is the access they were missing.

NameRoleEducationPreviously
Donghyun KimChief Executive OfficerB.A. Physics and EAPS, Columbia UniversityVisiting Research Scholar, Niels Bohr Institute Center of Gravity; question-set writer, US International Geography Olympiad training camp
Beomjun KimChief Operating OfficerB.A. Physics and Mathematics, UC BerkeleyResearch Assistant, Niels Bohr Institute Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks; engineer, Space Technologies at Cal (STAC)
Sai Divya TejaChief Technical OfficerB.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, IIT BombayResearcher on SkyLight, UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab; AI Engineer, AlignBridge.ai

FIG. 13 — Orbit regimes, to scale

Space capability, on request.

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