Terms & disclaimer

The Orbital Asset Registry (OAR) assigns a stable identifier to every catalogued orbital object and consolidates identity, launch, ownership, orbit, corporate-status and legal-attribution information into a searchable record. It is an information service. It is not legal advice, not financial advice, and not an official governmental register. It is independent and privately operated, and has no governmental or intergovernmental status, mandate or endorsement.

The Orbital Asset Registry is a project of the Space Finance Institute, operated by Meriden Labs LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. Correspondence and contracting enquiries: admin@orbitalassetregistry.org.

Statements on asset pages about treaty obligations, launching-state liability, state succession and responsible entities are legal context: attributions of public international law, made per catalogue owner code, with their legal bases and caveats stated. The facts of a specific object (joint launches, procured launches, transfers of supervision) can displace a code-level attribution. Nothing here should be relied on for a legal, insurance, investment or operational decision without independent professional advice. Treaty citations link to the Space Law Corpus (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21185483), where each authoritative text carries its provenance and content hash.

Orbital and catalogue data derive from CelesTrak (SATCAT and GP data), refreshed on a daily schedule. Corporate status is reported only from authoritative public registries (UK Companies House, US SEC EDGAR); each determination carries its effective date and a link to the filing that established it. The passage of that filing the determination rests on, and the date the passage was retrieved, are held back from public responses — see What a licence releases below. The state-succession layer is an open, DOI-minted dataset (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21193714, CC BY 4.0). All data is provided as is, on a best-effort basis, without warranty of any kind — accuracy, completeness, currency and fitness for purpose are expressly not guaranteed, and the operator accepts no liability for loss arising from reliance on it. Catalogue feeds, registries and corporate events change faster than any registry can reflect.

Some layers are contributed by open communities and remain under their own licences. Operator attribution derives from GCAT (J. McDowell), CC BY 4.0. Independent optical corroboration uses observations posted by the SeeSat-L visual-observer community, credited per observation to the reporting station, parsed with TruSat trusat-orbit (Apache 2.0). RF proof-of-life data is © SatNOGS / Libre Space Foundation and contributing ground stations, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; it is held and displayed as a separate attributed collection, unmodified, and is not merged into this registry's own records.

Corrections are welcome and are applied as sourced, dated revisions: admin@orbitalassetregistry.org.

Updated 15 August 2026. Registry pages, asset records and API responses may be quoted and cited by anyone, for any purpose, including in commercial journalism, research, analysis, filings and pleadings. Attribute the Orbital Asset Registry and link to the record you cite. No permission is needed and no licence is required to cite this register, and we would rather you did.

What requires a written licence is systematic reuse of the operator corporate-status layer, not citation of it. The line is this: quoting a determination is citation; holding a copy of the layer, or supplying something derived from it to others, is reuse. Reuse covers redistributing or reselling the determinations, incorporating them into a product or service, compiling them into a dataset, deriving scores or analytics from them for supply to third parties, and using them to train or calibrate models. Licensing enquiries: admin@orbitalassetregistry.org.

The public record gives you the fact and its source: the status, its effective date, and a link to the filing that established it. Held back from every public surface is the derivation — the passage of the filing the determination rests on, and the date that passage was retrieved. Both fields exist for every determination on this register, and releasing them, with bulk access to the layer, is what a licence buys. A determination you can audit line by line is a different instrument from one you can only read.

Individual queries through the API and the MCP endpoint are welcome, including for evaluation. Every API and MCP response carries these terms inline and a Link: rel="license" header, so an automated client does not have to find this page to know the layer is licensed. Systematic or bulk extraction of the corporate-status layer without a licence is prohibited, and access may be limited or withdrawn where it occurs. The state-succession dataset remains open under CC BY 4.0 via its Zenodo record, and the open catalogues (CelesTrak, GCAT) are the right source for bulk catalogue use. The registry has no accounts and no sign-in. A natural person is named only where a public filing names one as a party to a corporate event — a controlling shareholder divesting under a national-security agreement, for example — and every such name is cited to the filing that reports it. Request logs are retained by the hosting provider for seven days.