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Credits & Attributions

Last updated: April 2026

NTN Explorer is built on data and assets from many public sources. Thank you to all of them.

Imagery

Earth, Moon, and spacecraft background imagery — NASA photographs from the NASA Image and Video Library: iss072e659771, iss005e19267, iss007e06975 (also used for the share preview and PDF cover), iss036e027630 and art002e009285. NASA imagery is generally not subject to copyright in the United States; used per NASA Media Usage Guidelines with credit. No NASA endorsement implied.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rendering — NASA/GSFC (2026 beauty-pass illustration from NASA's Roman mission page). Used per NASA Media Usage Guidelines with credit; no NASA endorsement implied.
Mynaric Condor Mk3.1 optical communication terminal (photo) — by Blervis, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY 4.0. Display unit; cropped and resized. No endorsement by the photographer or Mynaric implied.
NASA LLCD optical module rendering — NASA, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). OPALS laser downlink illustration — NASA/JPL-Caltech, via Wikimedia Commons, used under JPL's image use policy with credit. No NASA or JPL endorsement implied.

Satellite catalog data

Live satellite counts and orbital data — CelesTrak (Dr. T.S. Kelso). Publicly accessible TLE/GP catalog sourced from the 18th Space Defense Squadron.

News sources

SpaceNews · Via Satellite · Light Reading · Spaceflight Now · SatNews
Amazon Kuiper Newsroom · AST SpaceMobile Newsroom · Cisco SP Blog
Google News aggregation of satellite/NTN company coverage

Only headlines, publication date, and short snippets are stored; full articles remain on the original publisher's site and are linked from the news panel.

Reference standards & filings

3GPP — Release 17/18/19 NTN specifications
ITU-R — World Radiocommunication Conference outcomes
FCC — ECFS filings, Part 25 spectrum filings
CEPT / ECC — European spectrum decisions
ETSI — NTN architecture documents

Video content

Training videos are embedded from YouTube via standard iframes. All videos remain hosted on YouTube; copyright stays with the respective creators.

Company data

Player profiles, partnerships, and metrics are compiled from public investor relations pages, SEC/EDGAR filings, official press releases, and industry analyst reports. Company names, logos, and product names referenced are trademarks of their respective owners.

Fonts

Manrope and Rajdhani — served by Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Open-source software

Built with Vite and Tailwind CSS. The following open-source libraries are included in the code this site delivers to your browser:

React, React DOM, Scheduler — MIT License. Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
tslib — BSD Zero Clause License (0BSD). Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

MIT License — Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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