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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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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GeospatialGeospatial AnalyticsSatellite ImageryEarth ObservationRemote SensingComputer VisionMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceSupply ChainCommoditiesOil And GasDefense And IntelligenceNational SecurityMaritimeAISIoT LocationAcquiredPrivateerTerraScope

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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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.
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- 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
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- type: Successor
  url: https://www.privateer.com
- type: TerraScope
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- type: AcquisitionAnnouncement
  url: https://spacenews.com/acquires-orbital-insight/
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Insight
- type: GitHub
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  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