Credits & licenses

Earth imagery

The globe uses Blue Marble — A Seamless Image Mosaic of the Earth, from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Blue Marble data courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

The original source texture is used unchanged; the website adds illustrative lighting, atmosphere, and animation. NASA SVS makes its content available in the public domain unless otherwise noted, subject to NASA's media usage guidelines. NASA does not sponsor, endorse, or approve AISAT or this visualization.

Open-source software

Three.js 0.180.0 provides the 3D rendering and supporting geometry. Copyright © 2010–2025 three.js authors. Used under the MIT License.

The site is built with Vite. Its generated module-loading helper is distributed under the MIT License. Vite license and upstream notices.

Typography

Space Grotesk. Copyright 2020 The Space Grotesk Project Authors. Distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The webfont is self-hosted and unmodified.

Website design and visualization

The satellite geometry, neural-core animation, beam effects, star field, page layout, and AISAT graphic were created for this project with AI-assisted coding. The scene is an artistic concept visualization, not a depiction of an operating spacecraft or a scientific simulation.

The site's copyright notice does not claim ownership of NASA imagery, open-source software, or third-party fonts. Those materials retain their respective rights and usage terms.