Credits and licenses
OrbitWatch is © 2026 Tajuddin Moore. All rights reserved. It is built on public data and on open-source software, credited here as their licenses require.
Data
| Source | Used for | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| CelesTrak (Dr. T.S. Kelso) | Orbital elements (TLEs) for every satellite shown | Public data, used with attribution and within CelesTrak's request limits |
| TripProf | Airline Starlink Wi-Fi information (last checked August 28, 2026) | Facts summarized in our own words, with a link to the source |
| Natural Earth 1:50m coastlines and borders, through the world-atlas package (ISC, © Michael Bostock) | The glowing continent outlines and country borders (pre-computed) | Public domain |
| NOAA ETOPO1 relief and Natural Earth shaded relief, through the basemap-data package (MIT) | The real terrain texture in the holographic land and seafloor (pre-computed) | U.S. government data and Natural Earth, public domain |
| GeoNames, through the geonamescache package (MIT) | Night-side city lights: locations and populations of 12,325 cities with 50,000+ people (pre-computed) | CC BY 4.0 |
| NOAA GLOBE elevation dataset, through the global-land-mask package (© 2019 Todd Karin) | The dotted continents on the globe (pre-computed, not downloaded at runtime) | U.S. government data, public domain; package under MIT |
Software in your browser
| Component | Version | License |
|---|---|---|
| three.js, © 2010–2023 three.js authors | 0.149.0 | MIT |
| satellite.js, © 2013 Shashwat Kandadai and UCSC | 5.0.0 | MIT |
| Instrument Serif, © 2022 The Instrument Serif Project Authors | Fontsource 5.1.1 | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| IBM Plex Sans and Mono, © 2018 IBM Corp. | Fontsource 5.1.1 | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
The full license texts are served alongside the files: three.js, satellite.js, Instrument Serif, IBM Plex.
Software on our server
The OrbitWatch server uses about 40 open-source Python packages, including FastAPI, Starlette, Uvicorn, Pydantic, sgp4, the Model Context Protocol SDK and the Prometheus client. All are under permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache 2.0, ISC, PSF, MPL 2.0 or the Unlicense). The complete list with versions is kept in the OrbitWatch source repository and checked automatically on every build.
Trademarks
Starlink is a trademark of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Airline, satellite and agency names belong to their owners. OrbitWatch is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them, and uses these names only to identify satellites and services.