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azmth shows each satellite as far as its orbit is public: live where the full orbit is published, as an approximate orbit where only its height and tilt are, and as a dated entry where neither is. We never work out where a satellite without a public orbit is, which way its orbit faces or when it passes overhead, and the same rule applies to every country.

What we never do. For a satellite whose orbit is not published, we show no position, orbital plane, ground track, pass time or spot above the equator, and we never work one out from launch details, warnings to ships and pilots, amateur observations, other satellites' orbits or any other source. We publish no statement, from anyone, that such a satellite shares another satellite's orbit. We offer no list, count, ranking or alert of military or reconnaissance satellites near you, for any country; the Military filter always covers the whole globe, never just your area. We do not use or share amateur orbit data for these satellites. Pass predictions work the same way for every satellite whose orbit is published.

Corrections and removal requests. If anything we show about a satellite is wrong, or a government, operator or data owner believes something we publish creates a real safety risk, write to hello@azmth.space with the satellite, the page and the reason. We reply within seven days. Requests that give a concrete safety reason are reviewed promptly, and any change is noted in the changelog in neutral words. Requests from any government are handled the same way and, where the law allows, listed on the military satellites page with their date. We can remove what we added (an error, a label, a figure), and for a satellite whose orbit is not published we can withdraw the catalogue figures we show. We do not remove a satellite whose orbit the public catalogue publishes; if the publisher stops, azmth follows automatically. We never publish a document any state has marked secret, confidential or restricted, or anything taken from one; if one is sent to us, we keep it private and follow legal advice on returning it.

Pause rule. If governments publicly ask providers of orbital data to hold data back during a conflict, or martial law, a state of emergency or a wartime restriction is declared in a country whose law applies to azmth, we add no new detail about satellites whose orbits are not published until we have reviewed the request or the declaration. The military satellites page says so, with the date.

Sources and licences.

• ·Orbits and catalogue figures: CelesTrak (celestrak.org) and Space-Track.org (18th Space Defense Squadron).
• ·Military labels, missions and status: adapted from GCAT, the General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, by Jonathan McDowell (planet4589.org/space/gcat), data update of 17 October 2026, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Our changes: we pick out the satellites GCAT classes as military, group its classes and categories into our own labels, use operators' own words in place of a few categories (each listed on the military satellites page), add Military* from official statements, and combine GCAT with the public satellite catalogue.
• ·UN registrations: the UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (document series ST/SG/SER.E), cited by symbol and date; registration status from the UN's online index (UNOOSA), read on 30 September 2026.
• ·Operators' statements: quoted with issuer, date and link, in the original language beside our translation.
• ·Military*: where GCAT does not class a satellite as military but its own government or operator says, in an official statement, that its armed forces or defence ministry own it, run it or have taken it over, we label it Military* and quote that statement beside GCAT's class. The rule and the list are on the military satellites page.
• ·Amateur observers: published findings credited by name, date and link; their orbit data is not used.
• ·azmth's own additions (our translations of official statements, the Military* list and the count history) are published under CC BY 4.0 too: credit azmth.space.

azmth is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by CelesTrak, Space-Track.org, the US Space Force, the United Nations, Jonathan McDowell, or any other government, agency or company named on our pages.

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