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How to cite Orbital Radar

Orbital Radar is cited in news reports, journals and theses. Every page has a Cite this page box with the same wording in six formats. Use it, and every citation of the site reads the same way.

The standard citation

Five parts

Every format below is built from the same five parts.

Author
Orbital Radar

Always the site itself, never a person.

Title
The page's own heading

Shown in the citation box on every page.

Date
When the page was last updated

For news articles, the date published.

Address
The page's own URL

Link the exact page, not the home page.

Accessed
The day you viewed it

Live figures change, so this matters.

APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, BibTeX and RIS

Here is the box as it appears on one of our pages. Pick a style to see it, copy it, or download the RIS file for Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley.

Example: How many satellites are in orbit?

Pick a style, then copy it or download it for your reference manager.

Orbital Radar. (2026, November 2). How many satellites are in orbit? Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit

“How many satellites are in orbit?” Orbital Radar, 2 Nov. 2026, orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

Orbital Radar (2026) How many satellites are in orbit? Available at: https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit (Accessed: 2 November 2026).

Orbital Radar. “How many satellites are in orbit?” Last modified November 2, 2026. https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit.

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  title        = {How many satellites are in orbit?},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = nov,
  howpublished = {\url{https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit}},
  url          = {https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit},
  urldate      = {2026-11-02},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-11-02}
}
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Download RISFor Zotero, EndNote and Mendeley

Citing a figure

Give the figure with its date, then cite the page it came from:

"As of 2 November 2026, Orbital Radar tracked [figure] satellites in orbit (Orbital Radar, 2026)."

Figures update all the time, so the date keeps your sentence true.

Citing an Orbital Register entry

Every entry in the Orbital Register has a permanent number that never changes. Cite the entry by its number, for example Orbital Register entry no. 2001-0089, with its page address.

Keeping a permanent copy

For a thesis or a paper, you can also save the page to a web archive on the day you cite it and add the archive link after the address.

For AI tools

AI tools that quote our figures should name Orbital Radar and link the exact page, in the same format. Our llms.txt file says the same.

Questions

How do I cite Orbital Radar in APA style?

Use Orbital Radar as the author, then the date the page was last updated, the page title in italics, and the retrieval date with the address. For example: Orbital Radar. (2026, November 2). How many satellites are in orbit? Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit

How do I cite Orbital Radar in Harvard style?

Orbital Radar (year) Title of the page. Available at: the page address (Accessed: the day you viewed it). For example: Orbital Radar (2026) How many satellites are in orbit? Available at: https://orbitalradar.com/how-many-satellites-in-orbit (Accessed: 2 November 2026).

Who is the author of an Orbital Radar page?

Orbital Radar itself. Pages are written and kept up to date by the Orbital Radar team, so cite the site as the author rather than a person.

Do I need an access date?

Yes. Many pages show live figures that change every day, so the access date tells your reader which version you saw. Every page's citation box adds it for you.

Cite this page

Pick a style, then copy it or download it for your reference manager.

Orbital Radar. (2026, November 2). How to cite Orbital Radar. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://orbitalradar.com/how-to-cite

“How to cite Orbital Radar.” Orbital Radar, 2 Nov. 2026, orbitalradar.com/how-to-cite. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

Orbital Radar (2026) How to cite Orbital Radar. Available at: https://orbitalradar.com/how-to-cite (Accessed: 2 November 2026).

Orbital Radar. “How to cite Orbital Radar.” Last modified November 2, 2026. https://orbitalradar.com/how-to-cite.

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  month        = nov,
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Download RISFor Zotero, EndNote and Mendeley

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