bjgiraudon/satcat

The 'satcat' project is a niche metadata mapping effort that translates the US Space Command's satellite catalog data into the STAC specification. While theoretically useful for integrating orbital data into geospatial workflows, the project exhibits near-zero adoption (3 stars, 0 forks) and has been stagnant for over 500 days. It lacks a technical moat; the core contribution is a JSON schema that could be recreated by a domain expert in a few hours. Frontier labs are unlikely to compete here as the domain is too specialized, but the project faces high displacement risk from established geospatial platforms like Microsoft Planetary Computer or Google Earth Engine, which typically implement their own metadata standards for tracking data. Without community momentum or integration into a larger library (like pystac), it remains a personal experiment rather than a defensible infrastructure project.