About & methodology

Space Quotes turns the dense public record of space regulation into short, sourced, shareable dispatches — and pairs each one with the words that saw it coming.

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 a space-regulatory dataset that crawls and links these sources, and every tidbit links back to the original document so you can read it yourself.

How we keep it accurate

Accuracy isn't a nice-to-have here — it's 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.
• We never invent quotes. Quotes come from a fixed, vetted list and are never altered or reattributed.

Why pair filings with quotes

A docket number is easy to ignore. The reason any of this matters — that we are slowly, bureaucratically deciding how humanity lives in space — is not. Pairing a real filing with a line from the people who dreamed about leaving Earth is how we make the paperwork mean something, and worth sharing.

Corrections

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