Terms governing the use of Orbital Radar, its data, content and services
By accessing or using Orbital Radar (orbitalradar.com), including its website, APIs, widgets, data feeds and any associated services (collectively, the "Platform"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, you must not use the Platform.
These terms apply to all visitors, users, contributors and anyone who accesses the Platform in any capacity — including via automated tools, bots, scripts or third-party integrations.
All original content on the Platform — including but not limited to website design, user interface elements, page layouts, text, articles, blog posts, educational material, illustrations, charts, visualisations, dashboards, interactive tools, source code, algorithms, software logic, brand assets, logos and trade dress — is the intellectual property of Orbital Radar and is protected by applicable copyright and intellectual property laws.
Database rights. The Orbital Radar datasets — including the satellite catalogues, launch records, debris statistics, space-economy figures, glossary and every other compilation presented on the Platform — are databases in which substantial investment has been made in the obtaining, verification and presentation of their contents. These databases are protected by database right under the laws of the United Kingdom, and by equivalent database and compilation protections in other jurisdictions. Extraction or re-utilisation of the whole or a substantial part of any Orbital Radar database — or the repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts — is prohibited without prior written permission and is actionable independently of copyright.
Registered designs. The appearance of the Platform's interface is protected in the United Kingdom by 40 registered designs, Nos. 6551991 to 6552030, registered under the Registered Designs Act 1949 to the operator of Orbital Radar with effect from 8 September 2026. They cover the screens listed below and the Orby character. A registered design protects the overall appearance of a screen, including its layout, configuration, colours and graphic elements, whatever text, data or photographs it displays. Using an interface that does not produce a different overall impression on an informed user, without permission, infringes these registrations whether or not it was copied. Registered design right is actionable independently of copyright.
Trade marks and product names. "Orbital Radar" and the Orbital Radar logo, "Orbital Eye"™, "Satellite Eye"™, "Groundlink"™, "Skylens"™ (also styled "Sky Lens"), "Orby"™ (including the Orby character, which is additionally protected by copyright), "Orbital Academy"™, "ORBIT"™ (the daily satellite guessing game), "Mission Status"™, "Orbital Radar Verified"™, "OR Confidence"™, the "Orbital Radar Space Economy Report", and the slogan "Making Earth’s orbit understandable." are trade marks, trade names or brand assets of Orbital Radar, whether or not registered. Nothing on the Platform grants any licence to use them. Use of any of these names or assets in a manner likely to cause confusion as to source, affiliation or endorsement — including as product or feature names, domain names, social media handles, or app titles — is prohibited and will be enforced.
You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, publicly display, republish, download, store or transmit any material from the Platform except as expressly permitted in these terms or with prior written consent.
The Orbital Radar name, logo and brand identity are proprietary. Use of these marks requires explicit written permission. See our press page for approved brand asset usage.
Automated scraping, crawling, harvesting or bulk downloading of data, content, pages or assets from Orbital Radar is strictly prohibited without prior written authorisation. This includes — but is not limited to — the following:
Enforcement: We actively monitor for automated access patterns and scraping activity. Violations may result in immediate IP blocking, access revocation and, where appropriate, legal action including claims for damages and injunctive relief. We reserve the right to pursue all available legal remedies.
Legitimate research: Academic researchers and educational institutions may request data access for non-commercial purposes via our press and partnerships page. We evaluate all requests and actively support legitimate research.
Search engines: Recognised search engine crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, etc.) are permitted to index public pages in accordance with our robots.txt directives.
Text and data mining: Orbital Radar expressly reserves all rights in relation to text and data mining, including under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and equivalent provisions in other jurisdictions. This reservation is also expressed in machine-readable form via the TDM Reservation Protocol and the content signals served with this site. No text-and-data-mining, AI-training or model-evaluation use of the Platform's content or data is licensed. Search-engine indexing, and the retrieval of our pages for the purpose of answering user queries with attribution to Orbital Radar, remain welcome.
Use of Orbital Radar content is governed by three tiers. For detailed guidance, see our Press & Media page.
Free with attribution: Screenshots for articles and reviews, citing data and statistics, linking to pages and tools, blog references, educational classroom use, social media sharing, and embedding official widgets. Attribution must be provided as described in Section 5.
Requires prior permission: Bulk data export, API integration, commercial use of data or visuals, republishing full articles, white-labelling, conference installations, and any use beyond individual, non-commercial reference.
Not permitted: Scraping or automated data harvesting (see Section 3), removing branding from widgets or embeds, presenting Orbital Radar data as your own, mirroring or cloning pages, training AI/ML models on our content, and any use that implies endorsement or affiliation without agreement.
Datasets bought from our data shop come with their own licence terms, which apply to those datasets in place of this section where the two differ.
Any use of Orbital Radar content, data or services without proper attribution, permission or affiliation — where required — constitutes a violation of these terms and may result in takedown requests, access revocation and further legal action.
When using Orbital Radar content under the "free with attribution" tier, you must provide clear, visible attribution near the referenced content. The attribution must include the name "Orbital Radar" and a link to orbitalradar.com.
Acceptable formats include:
Attribution must not be hidden, obscured, placed in metadata only, or rendered in a font size substantially smaller than the surrounding content. For broadcast or video use, an on-screen credit or verbal mention is required.
Orbital Radar provides embeddable widgets for satellite tracking, launch countdowns and other features. These widgets are free to embed on third-party websites subject to the following conditions:
We reserve the right to modify, update or discontinue widget functionality at any time. Embedding a widget does not constitute an endorsement or partnership unless explicitly agreed.
Orbital Radar compiles its data from multiple authoritative public catalogues and processes it through its own tracking and analysis pipeline. Sources and attributions are listed on our data sources page.
While we make every effort to ensure accuracy and timeliness, orbital data is inherently approximate. Two-Line Element sets are predictions, not exact positions. We make no warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, reliability or fitness for any particular purpose of the data presented on this Platform.
Orbital Radar data must not be used for safety-of-life applications, collision avoidance decisions, navigation, air traffic management or any purpose where inaccurate data could result in harm to persons or property.
Certain features may require you to create an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to provide accurate registration information and to notify us promptly of any unauthorised use.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, engage in abusive behaviour, or are used for purposes inconsistent with the Platform's intended use.
Orbital Radar respects your privacy. We collect minimal data necessary to operate the Platform:
We do not sell, rent or trade your account details or any other personal information you give us.
Dataset purchases. We, Orbital Radar (Suite 759, 80A Ruskin Avenue, Welling DA16 3QQ, United Kingdom; [email protected]), are the controller of this information. Payments for dataset licences are taken by Onelink, Stripe’s payment service, as merchant of record. Stripe collects your payment and billing details and sends your receipt, as a separate controller under the Onelink Privacy Policy. We never see your full card details. Stripe tells us your name, email address and country, its reference numbers for your payment, customer record and subscription, and whether a payment, renewal, refund or chargeback has gone through. We also record when and how often each file is downloaded. Enterprise licences are invoiced by us directly: we keep the billing details on your order and the names and email addresses of the people you ask us to send editions to.
We use this information to supply your dataset and later editions, send renewal reminders and answer questions (our contract with you); to keep accounting and tax records (our legal obligations); and, in our legitimate interests, to keep our checkout secure with a human check (Cloudflare Turnstile) and limits on repeated orders, to show what was agreed at checkout, and to protect our datasets by marking each copy and tracing copies found where they should not be. You need to give your name and email address, and your organisation for business licences, to buy a licence.
Who handles it for us. Microsoft (our email), Cloudflare (our website network and human check) and OVHcloud (our server, in Canada) process this information for us under contract. Cloudflare also uses human-check signals as a separate controller to improve its bot detection. We share information with HMRC, our advisers or a court only where the law requires it or to enforce or defend our rights. Some providers handle information outside the UK: where the UK recognises a country’s protection we rely on that; otherwise we rely on the UK transfer safeguards in our providers’ contracts, such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum. Ask us for details.
How long we keep it. We keep order records, including the licence terms you accepted, your checkout confirmations and download records, for six years after the end of the tax year in which you bought, or in which your subscription or Enterprise licence ended, as tax law and the time limits for legal claims require, and longer only while a tax check or claim needs them. The file made for you is deleted 30 days after it is created, and download links stop working after 7 days. Payment messages from Stripe, which include your name and email address, are deleted after 90 days. If you start a checkout but do not pay, we delete your name and email address after 7 days.
Your rights. You can ask for a copy of your information, ask us to correct or delete it or to limit how we use it, object to uses based on our legitimate interests, and ask for the information you gave us in a portable form. Some rights are limited where we must keep records or need them for a legal claim. To use your rights or to complain, use our legal & privacy contact form or email [email protected]. If you are unhappy with our reply, you can complain to the Information Commission (the ICO) at ico.org.uk. For information Stripe holds, see the Onelink Privacy Centre.
Advertising. Some pages on the Platform show advertising served through Google AdSense, which may include ads from other advertising companies that Google works with. Ads appear only in clearly labelled spaces within the page. We do not use pop-up or full-screen ad formats, and we do not show ads in the Orbital Academy. Where the law requires your consent before advertising cookies are used, including in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, we ask for it first. You can change your choice at any time through the Privacy and cookie settings link on pages that show ads.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Google explains how it uses information from sites that show its ads in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt out of the use of your personal information for targeted advertising. In US states where this applies, use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link on pages that show ads. You can do this through the settings above, or by contacting us through our legal & privacy contact form.
We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel or any other third-party tracking service for our own statistics. The anonymised traffic data described above is used solely to improve the Platform. Advertising cookies, where used, are covered under Advertising above.
If you believe that content on Orbital Radar infringes your copyright or intellectual property rights, please contact us at the address below with the following information:
Takedown requests should be sent via our legal & privacy contact form. We will respond to valid requests promptly and in accordance with applicable law.
We actively protect the content, data and design of this Platform. Websites or services that copy, mirror, closely imitate or republish Orbital Radar content, datasets, page structures or visual designs — in whole or in substantial part, with or without cosmetic renaming — are pursued through hosting-provider and platform takedown notices, search-engine delisting requests, and claims under copyright, registered design right, database right and unfair-competition law in the applicable jurisdictions.
Orbital Radar's original datasets and editorial content contain identifying characteristics that allow copied material to be traced conclusively to this Platform, even where it has been reworded, restyled or renamed. Automated and manual monitoring for copies operates continuously.
Seen a copy? If you come across a website reproducing Orbital Radar's content, data or design, please report it via our legal contact form with the site's address. Every report is investigated, and we're grateful to the community for helping protect the work that goes into this Platform.
The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We do not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or free of viruses or harmful components.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Orbital Radar and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, use or goodwill, arising from your use of or inability to use the Platform.
This limitation applies regardless of the legal theory on which the claim is based, including negligence, breach of contract, strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any other liability that cannot be lawfully excluded.
These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or with the use of the Platform (including non-contractual disputes or claims), are governed by Scots law. If you use the Platform as a consumer and live in the UK, the law of the part of the UK where you live applies instead, and you can bring a claim in the courts there or in the courts of Scotland; we can bring a claim against you only in the courts of the part of the UK where you live. If you live outside the UK, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your country and can bring a claim there. Otherwise, the Scottish courts have exclusive jurisdiction.
Nothing in these terms limits the right of the operator of Orbital Radar to bring proceedings, or to seek injunctive or other protective relief, in any jurisdiction in which an infringement of its rights occurs — including under the copyright, design, database-right, trade-mark or unfair-competition laws of that jurisdiction.
We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be indicated by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Platform after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
We encourage you to review this page periodically. The current version of these terms always governs your use of the Platform.
For questions about these terms, content usage requests, or legal enquiries: