Object Intelligence Card
One scrollable card per object — header, summary, orbit, physical params, close approaches, papers. Every cell hyperlinked to its primary source.
v0.1 · open beta · Apache-2.0
The agent-native research
surface for space.
One MCP server, one web workspace, one provenance trail — across NASA, ESA, JAXA, NOAA, CelesTrak, JPL, ADS, arXiv and 30+ open archives. Every claim hyperlinked to a primary source.
Research / simulation / decision-support only. No live commanding.
Sourced from 30+ open space archives — every value carries a `provenance[]`
NASAESAJAXANOAA SWPCCelesTrakJPL HorizonsADSarXivMPCMASTGaiaSIMBADCopernicusNAIF/SPICE+ Space-Track, DISCOSweb, JAXA G-Portal, AMDA, JSOC…
Hero features
A research surface scientists, operators, and agents share.
MCPOrbital ships 22 grounded MCP tools and a Next.js workspace. Same data layer; one provenance trail. Designed for humans first, built so agents speak the same dialect.
Unified Space Object Search
One box → asteroids, comets, satellites, stars, exoplanets, missions. Identifier-aware: typing 99942, 2004 MN4 or Apophis collapse to one object.
Space Weather Risk Monitor
Live Kp, Bz, solar wind + 3-day forecast + DONKI event ticker + plain-English narrative. Thresholds alert your inbox or Slack.
Ephemeris & Orbit Explorer
JPL Horizons under the hood. Heliocentric or geocentric, ICRF or B1950, observer- or vector-style. Export CSV / JSON / SPK.
AI Research Copilot
Paper → data → brief. Workspace-bound agent orchestrates lookup, cross-archive enrichment, drafting. Citations enforced — no claim without provenance.
Open-source MCP server
Apache-2.0. 22 tools. stdio + Streamable HTTP. Plug into Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, OpenClaw or your own agent.
Snapshot pinning + provenance graph
Every workspace artefact freezes its source values. Re-run a year-old brief and get the same numbers — or a diff if the upstream changed.
Knowledge graph + similar objects
Postgres + pgvector embeddings on name + params + abstracts. 'Find me asteroids similar to Apophis' is one MCP call.
MCP-first
Same surface for humans and agents.
Every web feature is a thin shell over an MCP tool call. Drop the OSS server into Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, OpenClaw or your own loop — get the same provenance-stamped JSON back.
- search_space_object
- get_object_profile
- get_ephemeris
- get_conjunction_risk
- get_space_weather_now
- search_scientific_papers
- generate_mission_brief
- validate_source_reliability
claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"space-intelligence": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mcporbital/space-intelligence-mcp@latest"
],
"env": { "NASA_API_KEY": "..." }
}
}
}✓ 22 tools advertised · 12 upstreams reachable
SafetyMCPOrbital operates in research, simulation, decision-support and sandbox modes only. No live spacecraft commanding. No deception of operational systems. No ISR or dual-use targeting. Every synthetic output is flagged IS_SIMULATION.
Scientist-first contract
Seven Tuesday mornings, returned.
Every feature in MCPOrbital traces back to a named scientist's painful workflow. If it doesn't advance one of these stories, it doesn't ship.
Aleksei Polyakov
PhD, planetary science · Tübingen
“Apophis brief by 10 a.m.”
Today
92 min across 6 portals
With MCPOrbital
2 min
Aïcha N'Diaye
Heliophysics analyst · Boulder
“Insurer asks about 2024-05-10 storm”
Today
60 min across SWPC, DONKI, ICAO
With MCPOrbital
4 min
Ranjeet Kohli
Staff engineer, AI co-pilot · Bengaluru
“Grounded space agent in a sprint”
Today
3 weeks of custom adapters
With MCPOrbital
30 min from npx
Marc Olsen
Flight dynamics lead · Copenhagen · LEO startup
“Is this CDM real or noise?”
Today
30 min × 12/day
With MCPOrbital
5 min per CDM
Dr. Lina Martens
Associate prof, planetary · Leiden
“What's the current best value?”
Today
45 min of archive digging
With MCPOrbital
90 sec
Capt. Élise Renaud
Agency programme officer · Brussels
“Onboard grad student”
Today
6 weeks
With MCPOrbital
2 days
Pricing
Free for the OSS. Hosted when you want to skip the ops.
Sentry / Dagster / Supabase playbook: world-class open source as the developer flywheel; hosted SaaS + Enterprise as the revenue engine. The MCP server is and will stay Apache-2.0.
Free
$0
OSS MCP server + public search + daily widgets. Genuinely useful — not bait.
- 1 000 MCP calls / day (hosted)
- 2 AI briefs / month
- 5 watched targets · daily refresh
- Public Object Cards + Space Weather snapshot
- Self-hosted OSS server — unmetered against your own quotas
Pro Researcher
$19/ month
Unlimited briefs, ADS integration, workspace with versioning.
- 25 000 MCP calls / day
- Unlimited briefs (fair-use)
- 100 watched targets · hourly refresh
- ADS + arXiv integration (BYOK or pooled)
- Workspace + snapshot pinning
- Export PDF / BibTeX / Overleaf push
Team / Lab
$79/ seat / mo · min 3
Shared workspaces, conjunction triage, custom skills, audit log.
- 200 000 MCP calls / day
- Unlimited team-wide watched targets · 15-min refresh
- Conjunction risk reconciled across providers
- Team-level connector config (Space-Track per-user orchestration)
- 2 custom skills / workspace
- Slack / Teams / webhook alerts
API Developer
$99/ month
Programmatic only. Build your own agent or product on top.
- 100 000 MCP calls / month · metered overage
- Webhooks · SDK help
- 99.5 % SLA
- Provenance-stamped JSON guaranteed
Enterprise / Agency
From $25K/ year
Private deployment, SSO/SCIM, custom connectors, dedicated TAM.
- VPC or on-prem · EU / US / JP region pin
- Custom connectors (private feeds, mission ICDs)
- SOC 2 Type I (path); 7-yr audit retention
- Dedicated TAM · 24×5 support
- Volume MCP calls · custom SLA
Indicative pricing — locked after design-partner pilots. Numbers in this section are directional. See docs/09_MONETIZATION.md for the model.
Ready when you are
Spend the evening on the science. We'll handle the archives.
Try the Apophis Object Card. Read the 22-tool MCP catalog. Drop the OSS server into Claude Desktop. Whatever path you pick, the citations come along for the ride.