Privateer
Open space-data platform tracking satellites and debris with Wayfinder
About
Privateer, co-founded by Steve Wozniak, builds a data engine and knowledge graph that tracks satellites and space debris, visualized in its open-access Wayfinder app. It released Crow's Nest, a free collision risk assessment tool using NASA conjunction-analysis methods, and acquired Orbital Insight to pair space data with Earth observation analytics.
The open-access posture is unusual in space situational awareness and useful for researchers and educators. Wayfinder is a visualization and awareness tool rather than an operational collision-avoidance system, and commercial operator adoption is less documented than the publicity.
What it can do
- Open-access orbital visualization
- Crow's Nest collision risk tool
- Space data knowledge graph
- Developer API
Setup
- Open the free Wayfinder web app
- Explore tracked satellites and debris in 3D
- Use Crow's Nest for collision risk assessment
- Access the API for space-based application development
Prerequisites
None for Wayfinder and Crow's Nest; API access for developers
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Co-founded by Steve Wozniak, $56.5M Series A; Wayfinder and Crow's Nest are free and open-access; Acquired Orbital Insight in 2024; Visualization tool, not an operational avoidance system. License: Proprietary platform with free open-access tools.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 7.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · Co-founded by Steve Wozniak, $56.5M Series A
- · Wayfinder and Crow's Nest are free and open-access
- · Acquired Orbital Insight in 2024
- · Visualization tool, not an operational avoidance system
Sources
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