SYS.EDITORIAL // NEWS & WIRE GOVERNANCE — REV 0.3
News Aggregation, Source Attribution & Editorial Policy
How nadir lab. verifies orbital milestones, aggregates regulatory and agency wire links, and enforces copyright and telemetry provenance.
Link-Only External Wire, Contemporary Dispatches & 1957–2024 Chronicle
In the Curated Space & SmallSat Wire section (#wire), nadir lab. never copies, mirrors, or hotlinks third-party publisher body text or photographs. Wire items are validated at build time via scripts/news/ingest.ts into data/news/wire/YYYY-MM.json and consist solely of:
- The verified agency, journal, or regulatory headline and publication date,
- Explicit source attribution and a direct deep-link marked with rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow", and
- An original 1–2 sentence nadir lab. engineering note explaining the impact on 1P–3P PocketQube and 1U–16U CubeSat design envelopes.
Contemporary dispatches (2025–2026) are published under /news/ and syndicated in the News RSS feed, whereas foundational historical milestones (1957–2024) are curated separately in the SmallSat Chronicle (/history/).
Authoritative Registries & Attribution
CelesTrak GP Elements
NORAD catalog IDs, epoch orbital elements, and B* drag terms are cross-checked against public CelesTrak GP element sets.
SatNOGS DB (CC BY-SA 4.0)
UHF/VHF/S-band reception milestones and amateur beacon decoding statistics are verified against Libre Space Foundation SatNOGS DB.
NOAA SWPC (Public Domain)
Observed 10.7 cm solar radio flux (F10.7) and geomagnetic Ap/Kp indices used in weekly drag bulletins originate from NOAA SWPC.
ESA / FCC / IARU Filings
Post-mission disposal rules and amateur satellite frequency coordination status are cited directly from primary regulatory dockets.
Institutional Contact & Errata Protocol
Principal investigators, university satellite teams, and launch integrators may submit updated NORAD object correlations, IARU coordination references, or factual corrections directly to hi@nadirlab.space or via the Mission Telemetry Submission Form. Substantive corrections are logged in the platform Changelog.