Orbit Sentinel — Space Regulatory Filings

Get FCC surety bond portfolio for satellite operators. Two distinct figures per operator: the POSTED bond, which is an amount an FCC document states and is absent for most authorizations, and the COMPUTED 47 CFR 25.165 liability, which is Orbit Sentinel's own arithmetic and is not a bond anyone has posted. Never report a computed figure as an operator's actual bond, and read 'not documented' as unknown rather than zero. Also returns summary statistics and FAA financial responsibility data. Use for questions about satellite operator financial obligations, bond compliance, or TPL coverage.

Get a cross-source dossier for an entity (by UUID): regulatory filings, SEC financial signals, sanctions/export-control screening hits, and asset footprint (satellites, ground stations, federal awards, surety bonds) — counts plus recent samples in one call. The most complete single view of an operator. Set include_family=true to roll the totals up across the entity's corporate family.

Get a detailed entity profile including filing history by agency, related entities (co-filers), linked satellites, and cross-references.

Get full details of a specific regulatory filing, by UUID or agency file number, including spectrum data, orbital parameters, ground stations, signals, related filings, attachments, and (for policy filings) executive summary, overall stance, and structured arguments.

Get filing count distribution by filing type. Filter by agency and date range. Use for questions about what types of filings are most common.

Get filing volume trends over time periods with optional top movers (entities with biggest changes). Use for questions about growth, trends, emerging players, or year-over-year comparisons.

Get launch history for a space entity. Returns launches from the FAA/GCAT database including vehicle type, launch site, outcome, and date. Requires entity_id.

Get system health status including database connectivity, pipeline queue depth, and per-source crawl health.

Get the top filing entities ranked by number of filings. Filter by agency and date range. Use for questions about who files the most, biggest players, or filing rankings.

FCC deployment milestone adherence (47 CFR 25.164): which authorized satellite systems met their deployment milestones. Grading is deliberately asymmetric — an adverse grade must be earned, a favourable grade must be labelled. 'missed' and 'met_late' appear only where a human verified a cited FCC document; otherwise the row reads 'verification_required', which asserts nothing about the operator and must not be reported as a miss. Favourable grades are never withheld, so read verification_status: 'arithmetic_corroborated' means the deployment counts independently agree — a computation, not a person, did the corroborating — and 'uncorroborated' means the arithmetic is SILENT, not that it disagrees; no favourable grade is currently contradicted by the data. computed_grade always carries the raw arithmetic even where classification withholds it. Filter by call_sign, classification, is_ngso; set summary=true for aggregate counts, which include withheld_adverse and uncorroborated_favourable.

Primary research tool — searches filings, entities, and semantic index in parallel. Use this FIRST for any question. Pass the agency parameter for agency-specific questions (e.g., agency="FCC" for FCC questions).

Search regulatory entities (companies, operators, manufacturers, governments) by name, type, or country. Supports fuzzy name matching.

Search U.S. federal awards (USAspending contracts + IDVs) by recipient, agency, award type, NAICS, or minimum amount, joined to the resolved recipient entity. Ordered by award amount (largest first). Use for 'NASA contracts to Boeing over $1B' or an operator's federal funding footprint.

Search space regulatory filings by keyword, agency, type, status, date range, agency file number (exact or prefix such as SES-LIC), FCC station call sign or applicant entity. Returns a paginated list of filings from FCC, ITU, UNOOSA, and other agencies.

Search ground / earth stations by name, frequency band, operator, entity, U.S. state, or geographic proximity (near='lat,lon' within radius_km, ordered by great-circle distance). Defaults to the FCC IBFS earth-station archive (one row per call sign, through 2025-06-17); source=acma|ised|ofcom reads a national register, source=extracted the stations extracted from filings. Each result is labeled with its source. group_by=state|operator returns call-sign counts per bucket (other sources: group_by=operator, station counts). Use for 'earth stations within 200km of 38.9,-77.0', 'how many V-band earth stations per state', or an operator's gateway footprint.

Search LLM-extracted policy arguments across COMMENT / REPLY / PETITION filings. Filter by docket, overall stance, argument type, target party, filer, or filing date. Use this to answer questions like 'who opposed X?', 'what did SpaceX argue in 25-306?', 'which filings support modular satellite licensing?'. Returns one row per (filing, argument).

Search the satellite catalog (UCS + Space-Track SATCAT) by name, operator, country, orbit class, status, object type, launch or decay date range, COSPAR, or NORAD id. Joined to the resolved operator entity. Every response includes `total`, the full number of matching objects (rows are capped at 500 per call; page with offset), so answer counting questions from `total` — set count_only=true to skip the rows. Combine filters in one call instead of splitting the search, e.g. a constellation's payloads launched in a given year: name=<constellation>, object_type=payload, launched_after=<YYYY>-01-01, launched_before=<YYYY>-12-31, count_only=true. Use for counting a fleet or a segment, 'what does SpaceX have in LEO?', 'find NORAD 44713', or building an operator's fleet.

Check entities against consolidated sanctions / export-control screening lists (OFAC SDN, BIS Entity List, ITAR Debarred, etc.). Filter by entity, name, list source, or minimum match similarity. Use for compliance / due-diligence questions.

Search SEC filings for tracked space companies (8-K material events, 10-Q, 10-K). Filter by ticker, CIK, company name, resolved entity, form type, or date, or fetch one filing by accession number. Use for financial signals — e.g. recent 8-Ks for a satellite operator.

Semantic vector search across filing text using natural language. Uses nomic-embed-text-v1.5 embeddings to find filings by meaning, not just keywords. Note: FCC filings have limited embedding coverage — use search_filings for FCC keyword search.

Search the FCC Approved Space Station List (SSAL): U.S.-licensed space stations and foreign-licensed ones approved for U.S. market access, by operator, system, licensing administration, call sign, entity, orbit type (is_ngso), foreign licensing (foreign) and grant (granted). Each row carries us_market_access (granted and foreign). Every response includes `total`, the full match count; set count_only=true to skip the rows. Use for 'how many foreign NGSO systems have U.S. market access?' (is_ngso=true, foreign=true, granted=true, count_only=true) or 'is Telesat's system on the SSAL?'.

Find which entities hold a frequency band. Given a range in MHz, returns spectrum allocations overlapping it, joined to the source filing and applicant — e.g. 'who is allocated 11700-12200 MHz downlink?'. Filter by agency, direction, polarization, or holder name.