◆ The Orbit Desk/ ESTD. 2026
Satellite intelligence for energy infrastructure.
Independent, on-demand analysis of industrial assets — anywhere in the world.
From orbit to insight.
01/The value
Pay for the answer, not for access.
01.
Ground truth is rare.
Industrial assets change constantly. Verifiable physical data is expensive, scattered, and almost always late.
02.
Subscriptions don't fit.
Existing platforms force heavy annual commitments — poorly suited to specific, occasional, asset-level questions.
03.
Pixels aren't insight.
Satellite data has become accessible. Interpreting it — with sector context — has not.
02/What we do
What the ground says, not the press release.
Two reads — asset-level, on demand. Each ends on the same question: does observed match announced?
LNG TERMINALS · RAS LAFFAN
25.9°N 51.5°E · 2026-06-27
Running as claimed?
Operational level at a refinery or LNG terminal, read week over week — the throughput the operator's statement won't give you, before the market has it.
Track it live →OFFSHORE WIND · SUNRISE · OCS-A 0487
OCS-A 0487 · 2026-06-02
On the date announced?
A 924 MW build ~30 mi off Long Island. We read the turbine cadence from orbit — and it puts completion in 2028, not the 2027 on the brochure.
03/Process
Get your answer within days, not months.
Day 0
01
Scoping
A 30-minute call to qualify the question, the assets, and feasibility.
Days 1–7
02
Analysis
Image acquisition, processing, cross-reference with Sentinel-1/2 imagery, OpenStreetMap, public operational & regulatory data, and news flow.
Days 7–14
03
Delivery
Synthesis report — maps, time series, actionable conclusions.
◆ Typical turnaround · 2 weeks
04/Featured analysis
Reading an eastern-province energy asset from orbit.
Case file · February 2026 · Saudi Arabia eastern province
In late February, a section of the loading trestle at the Juaymah NGL terminal collapsed. Public disclosure was limited to a brief operator statement, and the market absorbed it as such.
High-resolution imagery acquired within thirty-six hours bounded the damage to the trestle and one of its loading lines. The onshore processing units and storage spheres were untouched.
The bottleneck is not upstream production — it is the pipe to the ship. With the affected line out of service, NGL cargoes could not be delivered through the trestle. Up to 6 vessels and offshore support platforms from multiple operators are now visible, actively working to repair one of the world's main NGL export lines.
The conclusion: the export disruption is real and bounded by trestle-repair time, not by upstream capacity. Recovery is a structural-repair question, not a processing one.
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05/Why The Orbit Desk
Built as a research desk, not a platform.
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Sector-specific expertise.
Five years of energy-focused satellite analysis. Direct experience across MENA hydrocarbons, global LNG flows, and European refining.
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End-to-end technical stack.
Full control of the chain — Sentinel-1 SLC and Sentinel-2 L2A ingestion, STAC pipelines, change-detection algorithms, client-grade deliverables.
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No subscription, no commitment.
Engagements are scoped per project. No platform login. No annual contract. One brief, one deliverable.
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Independent.
No reseller relationships with satellite data providers. No conflict of interest. The deliverable is analysis — not a license.
07/Contact
Tell us what you need to see.
Briefs are reviewed within 48 hours. If we are not the right desk for the question, we will say so directly.
Email · desk@theorbitdesk.com
LinkedIn · /the-orbit-desk