aid: orbital-insight
name: Orbital Insight
description: >-
  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.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Geospatial
  - Geospatial Analytics
  - Satellite Imagery
  - Earth Observation
  - Remote Sensing
  - Computer Vision
  - Machine Learning
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Supply Chain
  - Commodities
  - Oil And Gas
  - Defense And Intelligence
  - National Security
  - Maritime
  - AIS
  - IoT Location
  - Acquired
  - Privateer
  - TerraScope
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orbital-insight/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/orbital-insight-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://orbitalinsight.com
  - type: Successor
    url: https://www.privateer.com
  - type: TerraScope
    url: https://www.privateer.com
  - type: AcquisitionAnnouncement
    url: https://spacenews.com/acquires-orbital-insight/
  - type: Wikipedia
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Insight
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/orbitalinsight
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbital-insight
  - type: CrunchBase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/orbital-insight
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com