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Mentioned in The Downlink

• Introducing Space Quotes

  We built Space Quotes on Orbit Sentinel: short, sourced dispatches from real FCC, ITU, and FAA filings. Orbit Sentinel is live and free during beta, and Space Quotes is one thing you can build with it.

• Orbit Sentinel Beta Is Now Self-Service

  Sign up, mint an API key, and ask questions against 418,000+ extracted space regulatory filings from Claude or any MCP client — no waitlist, free during beta.

• AI Verification Engineering: Architecture for Trustworthy Regulatory AI

  RAG hallucinates at 17 to 33 percent in production legal tools. The architecture of trustworthy regulatory AI: source grounding, extraction validation, confidence scoring, and standards-aligned verification.

• Document Extraction Pipeline Architecture: Why the Document Is the Hard Part

  Why regulatory document extraction fails at the document layer, not the model layer. How format variation across FCC, ITU, and UNOOSA filings shapes hybrid OCR plus LLM pipeline design.

• Vector Search and Embeddings for Regulatory Filings

  Keyword search misses regulatory filings written in another agency's vocabulary. How vector embeddings, hybrid retrieval, and domain-specific benchmarks enable cross-agency semantic search over FCC, ITU, UNOOSA, and FAA data.

• Mission Log: Running 10,000 FCC and ITU Filings Through Rented Consumer GPUs

  How we built a batch LLM extraction pipeline on rented consumer GPUs to process thousands of FCC and ITU regulatory filings. Architecture, throughput, costs, accuracy, and confidence scoring.

• Multi-Agency Coordination: FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU

  A single satellite mission can require four federal agencies that don't talk to each other. Case studies and reform efforts in multi-agency coordination.

• ITAR and Export Controls for Satellite Programs

  How U.S. export controls apply to commercial satellites. ITAR vs EAR jurisdiction, deemed exports, the 2024 reform proposal, and compliance strategies.

• FCC Satellite Licensing: From Application to Authorization

  Guide to FCC Part 25 satellite licensing: application process, processing rounds, milestones, bonds, filing types, market access, and Part 100.

• NOAA Remote Sensing License & Part 960 Explained

  Part 960 governs every U.S. commercial Earth observation satellite. Here's how the tier system works and why CRSRA's capacity is now uncertain.

• Benchmarking LLMs for Domain-Specific Extraction

  General benchmarks don't predict extraction quality. How to evaluate whether an LLM can extract structured data from regulatory filings.

• U.S. Space Regulatory Compliance: A Complete Guide

  Navigate FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU requirements for commercial space missions. Four agencies, timelines, costs, and compliance steps.

• How Ground Station Licensing Works: A Complete Guide

  Earth station types, FCC licensing steps, frequency coordination, ESIMs, and common mistakes. A plain-language guide to ground station licensing.

• How Satellite Licensing Works: A Complete Guide

  FCC, FAA, NOAA, and ITU filing processes, costs, timelines, and common mistakes. A plain-language guide to U.S. satellite licensing.

• The FCC 5-Year Deorbit Rule Explained

  The FCC cut satellite disposal timelines from 25 years to 5. Who it applies to, how operators comply, and what happens if they don't.

• AI Hallucination in Regulatory Data: The Trust Problem

  AI hallucination in regulatory data creates real compliance risk. How fabricated filings and false narratives threaten space regulatory intelligence.

• The Downlink: A Space Regulatory Intelligence Blog

  Space regulatory intelligence, satellite filing analysis, and orbital economy insights from the team behind Orbit Sentinel.