# Orbital Insight

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/orbital-insight/  
**Website:** https://orbitalinsight.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 4.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 8.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Orbital Insight Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## 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

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