About & methodology

Space Quotes turns the dense public record of space regulation into short, sourced, shareable dispatches, each built around a real line pulled from the filing itself.

Where the facts come from

Every tidbit is built from primary filings in the public regulatory record: the FCC (ECFS and IBFS), the ITU, the FAA, and the dockets where the future of orbit is actually argued. We surface them through Orbit Sentinel, our space-regulatory data platform, which crawls and links these sources, and every tidbit links back to the original document so you can read it yourself. Orbit Sentinel is live and free during beta, so you can explore the filings yourself or try the free beta.

How we keep it accurate

Accuracy is the entire value of the site, so the process is built to make a wrong claim hard to publish:

• We separate facts from framing. Every factual claim is drawn only from structured fields in the official record or text quoted directly from the primary document.
• We treat machine summaries as untrusted. Automated summaries can be wrong, so any specific claim (an altitude, a frequency, a count) is confirmed against the primary document or dropped.
• We verify before we publish. An independent check reviews every draft against its sources and rejects anything that isn't supported. A tidbit that doesn't pass doesn't go up.
• Every quote is verbatim. The line at the heart of each tidbit is pulled straight from the filing, quoted exactly and attributed to whoever wrote it. We never paraphrase it or make it up.

Why the quotes come from the filings

A docket number is easy to ignore. The actual sentence a company, a lawyer, or a rural carrier wrote into the record is not. Pulling the real line out of the paperwork is how we make a filing readable, and worth sharing, without putting words in anyone's mouth.

Who writes Space Quotes

Space Quotes is written by Anthony Caracappa, who tracks the FCC, ITU and FAA filings that shape life in orbit using tools from viventine.com. You can find him on LinkedIn and GitHub.

Corrections

Found an error? Accuracy is the whole point of this site, and we'll correct or remove anything that turns out to be wrong.