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Which MCP servers are Orbinauts's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

read 2026-10-31

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Whose server it is
  • Registry namecom.orbinauts/mcpverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under orbinauts.com. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-31
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-31
  • Tools8
  • Server calls itselfOrbinauts
  • Server version1.1.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-31 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 1763 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Its tools do every use case we checked: find when a satellite passes over your city; check upcoming launches and close approaches.
  • Checked on 4 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

  • For "find when a satellite passes over your city", the likely first call is passes.
  • For "check upcoming launches and close approaches", the likely first call is launches.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 4, the first on 2026-10-31
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 4 so far
  • What an agent can do with it2 of 2 use cases
  • Answeredmeasuring4 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer1955 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 2,184 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (8), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 8 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

  • can do · find when a satellite passes over your city
  • not sure · track live satellite positions on a map
  • can do · check upcoming launches and close approaches

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers8 tools · read 2026-10-31
  • find_satellites

    Finds satellites and other tracked objects by name, alias or catalogue number, in the catalogue of everything in orbit. Call it when a person names a satellite in words (Hubble, Starlink, Tiangong, a GPS satellite) to learn its catalogue…

  • satellite_now

    Where one satellite is right now: the point on the ground beneath it, its altitude and speed, what it is over (a country or a sea), whether it is in sunlight or in the Earth's shadow, the orbit it is on, and what it is: its kind, its…

  • passes

    When satellites pass over a place in the next ten days, in the place's local time: for one satellite, every pass with its rise, highest point and set, and whether it can be seen; with no satellite named, the passes a person can see with…

  • launches

    Rocket launches coming up in the next sixty days and launched in the last thirty, from Launch Library 2: for each, the rocket and the mission, what it carries and where it is bound, the launch site, its time as exactly as the provider…

  • close_approaches

    The close approaches between objects in orbit that Space-Track reports publicly: two objects predicted to pass within about a kilometre of each other, with the time of closest approach in UTC, the miss distance, the chance of collision…

  • reentries

    Which objects in orbit are expected to fall back to Earth within the next week, each with the window Space-Track predicts (a start and an end in UTC, never a place), and which came down in the last ninety days, each with the day the…

  • crew

    Who is aboard each space station right now (the International Space Station and Tiangong), as Launch Library lists their expeditions: each person's name, role, agency, the flight that brought them and the day it docked, with the crew…

  • census

    How many satellites and other objects are in orbit around Earth right now, counted by kind (satellites, rocket bodies, debris, unidentified) and by orbit (low, medium, inclined geosynchronous, geostationary, highly elliptical). Call it…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orbinauts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.orbinauts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http orbinauts https://api.orbinauts.com/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://api.orbinauts.com/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.