Sources
Every figure across ALL IN SPACE carries a primary source. This is the open registry of those sources: who published it, how many records rest on it, how strong the evidence is, and which dossiers cite it. Open a row to read the original.
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Our own research
1,303 citations in the country dossiers point at research passes we ran ourselves rather than at an outside publisher. They are listed here, and they are not part of the 3,064 above.
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Licences
Some of the datasets above carry conditions beyond citation. Each one is listed here with its licence, what we changed, and anything the licence obliges us to do in return. Datasets not listed are official statistics cited per figure with no separate licence text.
Changes Station records were filtered to those with a usable position, normalised to this platform’s schema, assigned an ISO country code and merged with curated operator records. Placeholder coordinates were removed.
Obligation Share alike · the ground station records derived from SatNOGS are made available under CC BY-SA 4.0, the same licence, and may be reused on those terms.
GCAT · General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, Jonathan McDowellCC BY 4.0
Changes Objects were aggregated by owner state and operational status to produce per-country satellite counts.
WikidataCC0 1.0 · public domain dedication
Changes Selected items were queried and reshaped into ground station and treaty records.
Changes Headlines and links only, shown in the briefing feed and linked back to the original.
UK Space Agency · GOV.UKOpen Government Licence v3.0
Changes Headlines and links only, shown in the briefing feed.
NASA · including GIBS imagery and agency newsroomsNot copyrighted · US Government work
Changes Imagery is displayed as a map overlay at the published resolution; headlines link back.
Obligation NASA does not endorse this platform and its logo is not used.
Esri World Imagery basemapEsri terms of use · attribution required
Changes Tiles are displayed unmodified. Credit to Esri, Maxar and Earthstar Geographics is shown on the map itself.