Orbital Insight
Orbital Insight was a Palo Alto, California geospatial analytics company founded in 2013 by James Crawford (formerly Bell Labs, Google Books, and NASA's Mars rover program). The company applied computer vision and machine learning to satellite imagery, aerial photography, AIS vessel signals, and IoT/mobile location data to produce intelligence on supply chains, global commodities (notably oil storage via its Global Geospatial Crude Index), geopolitical events, demographics, retail foot traffic, disaster damage, and national-security questions. Its flagship product was the GO platform (later rebranded TerraScope), a self-service geospatial intelligence platform layering proprietary models over commercial satellite imagery from partners including DigitalGlobe, Airbus, Planet Labs, and e-GEOS. Orbital Insight raised funding from In-Q-Tel, GV (Google Ventures), Sequoia Capital, CME Ventures, and others, and acquired Boston-based FeatureX in 2018. After a period of financial distress in 2023, Orbital Insight was acquired by Privateer (co-founded by Apple's Steve Wozniak and Alex Fielding) on May 6, 2024. Following the acquisition, the standalone orbitalinsight.com brand was wound down and the TerraScope platform is now offered by Privateer alongside its Wayfinder space-domain-awareness data engine, fused into Privateer's "Elements" all-domain data platform. As of 2026 there is no public self-service Orbital Insight developer API, SDK, or open-source release; the orbitalinsight GitHub organization has only two archived repositories (a region-aggregation reference and a fork of tileserver-gl) and no current developer portal.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Orbital Insight the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Orbital Insight scores 7.4/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Orbital Insight
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Orbital Insight. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Orbital Insight — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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