Terms of Service

OrbitalWiki reconciles public satellite data into a searchable, source-backed catalog with a read-only developer API. The current sources are CelesTrak orbital elements, GCAT launch records by Jonathan McDowell, and Wikidata metadata. It is provided for research, discovery, software prototyping, and source review.

The Service is early-access software. Features, data, endpoints, and availability can change or be withdrawn at any time without notice. Treat everything you see as provisional, and verify anything important against the original sources.

OrbitalWiki is not a conjunction-assessment, collision-avoidance, maneuver-planning, or any other safety-of-life or operational system. You must not use it for spacecraft operations, collision avoidance, or any decision where inaccuracy could cause harm or loss. We provide no warranty of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any operational purpose.

You agree not to:

• use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any third-party rights;
• circumvent, overload, or interfere with rate limits, security, or anti-abuse controls;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, data, or other users’ data;
• scrape or redistribute the data in a way that breaks the upstream source terms below;
• misrepresent the data’s accuracy or imply our endorsement of your use.

The underlying data comes from third-party sources that keep their own licenses and attribution requirements, including CelesTrak and GCAT. You are responsible for honoring those upstream terms, including any required attribution, whenever you reuse data obtained through OrbitalWiki. We avoid redistributing restricted data (such as Space-Track) until any required clearance exists.

The selection, arrangement, provenance model, and presentation of the catalog, together with the OrbitalWiki name and branding, belong to us or our licensors. The email address you submit remains yours; you grant us permission to process it only as described in the Privacy Policy.

API access is read-only and requires an account API key unless we explicitly enable a temporary public prototype mode. Keys are account-scoped: multiple keys can separate local, staging, and production use, but they share the account’s daily quota and do not multiply capacity.

Free access is for personal, educational, research, evaluation, and non-commercial prototype use. Commercial products, paid services, client deliverables, organization workflows, or redistribution require a paid plan or a separate written agreement. Free, Builder, and Business plans return HTTP 429 at the configured limit; they do not create automatic overage charges.

When subscription checkout is enabled, paid plans will be sold as recurring subscriptions. Unless the checkout page states otherwise, changes, renewals, cancellations, taxes, receipts, and payment processing are handled by Lemon Squeezy, our payment provider and merchant of record; your purchase of a paid plan is a transaction with Lemon Squeezy as the seller of record, subject to its terms. You can cancel at any time: cancellation stops future renewals and you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. If you are not satisfied, you may request a full refund within 14 days of your purchase; outside that window we do not provide prorated refunds for the unused part of a paid period unless required by law. During the prototype phase we may pause purchases, change packaging, suspend abusive usage, or revoke keys that bypass limits, security controls, or upstream source terms.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including mandatory consumer rights.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, or for any loss arising from your reliance on the data for operational or safety-critical decisions. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under applicable law.

Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy, and our use of cookies in the Cookie Policy. By using the Service you acknowledge those documents.

We may update these Terms as the prototype evolves. Material changes will be reflected by the date above, and continued use after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Belgium, where the OrbitalWiki operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Belgium have jurisdiction, and any mandatory consumer-protection rights in your country of residence are unaffected.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to hello@orbitalwiki.com.