Orbital Insight

Orbital Insight was a Palo Alto, California geospatial analytics company founded in 2013 by James Crawford (formerly Bell Labs, Google Books, and NASA's Mars rover program). The company applied computer vision and machine learning to satellite imagery, aerial photography, AIS vessel signals, and IoT/mobile location data to produce intelligence on supply chains, global commodities (notably oil storage via its Global Geospatial Crude Index), geopolitical events, demographics, retail foot traffic, disaster damage, and national-security questions. Its flagship product was the GO platform (later rebranded TerraScope), a self-service geospatial intelligence platform layering proprietary models over commercial satellite imagery from partners including DigitalGlobe, Airbus, Planet Labs, and e-GEOS. Orbital Insight raised funding from In-Q-Tel, GV (Google Ventures), Sequoia Capital, CME Ventures, and others, and acquired Boston-based FeatureX in 2018. After a period of financial distress in 2023, Orbital Insight was acquired by Privateer (co-founded by Apple's Steve Wozniak and Alex Fielding) on May 6, 2024. Following the acquisition, the standalone orbitalinsight.com brand was wound down and the TerraScope platform is now offered by Privateer alongside its Wayfinder space-domain-awareness data engine, fused into Privateer's "Elements" all-domain data platform. As of 2026 there is no public self-service Orbital Insight developer API, SDK, or open-source release; the orbitalinsight GitHub organization has only two archived repositories (a region-aggregation reference and a fork of tileserver-gl) and no current developer portal.

Orbital Insight is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Geospatial, Geospatial Analytics, Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, and Remote Sensing.

Orbital Insight’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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4.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Heartbeat 0/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
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Composite quality — 4.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-
Data Marketplaces (data providers on cloud data platforms)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

AIS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Orbital Insight Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

TerraScope

TerraScope

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

CrunchBase

CrunchBase

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Successor

Successor

AcquisitionAnnouncement

AcquisitionAnnouncement

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Source (apis.yml)

aid: orbital-insight
name: Orbital Insight
description: Orbital Insight was a Palo Alto, California geospatial analytics company founded in 2013 by James Crawford (formerly
  Bell Labs, Google Books, and NASA's Mars rover program). The company applied computer vision and machine learning to satellite
  imagery, aerial photography, AIS vessel signals, and IoT/mobile location data to produce intelligence on supply chains,
  global commodities (notably oil storage via its Global Geospatial Crude Index), geopolitical events, demographics, retail
  foot traffic, disaster damage, and national-security questions. Its flagship product was the GO platform (later rebranded
  TerraScope), a self-service geospatial intelligence platform layering proprietary models over commercial satellite imagery
  from partners including DigitalGlobe, Airbus, Planet Labs, and e-GEOS. Orbital Insight raised funding from In-Q-Tel, GV
  (Google Ventures), Sequoia Capital, CME Ventures, and others, and acquired Boston-based FeatureX in 2018. After a period
  of financial distress in 2023, Orbital Insight was acquired by Privateer (co-founded by Apple's Steve Wozniak and Alex Fielding)
  on May 6, 2024. Following the acquisition, the standalone orbitalinsight.com brand was wound down and the TerraScope platform
  is now offered by Privateer alongside its Wayfinder space-domain-awareness data engine, fused into Privateer's "Elements"
  all-domain data platform. As of 2026 there is no public self-service Orbital Insight developer API, SDK, or open-source
  release; the orbitalinsight GitHub organization has only two archived repositories (a region-aggregation reference and a
  fork of tileserver-gl) and no current developer portal.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/orbital-insight.png
tags:
- Geospatial
- Geospatial Analytics
- Satellite Imagery
- Earth Observation
- Remote Sensing
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Supply Chain
- Commodities
- Oil and Gas
- Defense and Intelligence
- National Security
- Maritime
- AIS
- IoT Location
- Acquired
- Privateer
- TerraScope
tags_raw:
- Geospatial
- Geospatial Analytics
- Satellite Imagery
- Earth Observation
- Remote Sensing
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Supply Chain
- Commodities
- Oil And Gas
- Defense And Intelligence
- National Security
- Maritime
- AIS
- IoT Location
- Acquired
- Privateer
- TerraScope
- Computer-Vision
- Machine-Learning
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orbital-insight/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/orbital-insight-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://orbitalinsight.com
- type: Successor
  url: https://www.privateer.com
- type: TerraScope
  url: https://www.privateer.com
- type: AcquisitionAnnouncement
  url: https://spacenews.com/acquires-orbital-insight/
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Insight
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/orbitalinsight
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbital-insight
- type: CrunchBase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/orbital-insight
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Privateer
x-acquired-date: '2024'
x-status-source: https://www.orbitalinsight.com/
x-status-evidence: orbitalinsight.com reads 'Orbital Insight is now Privateer' and forwards to privateer.com (fetched 2026-10-03);
  Privateer is not in the catalog (roadmap#812)

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