Your station is already listed. Make the record yours.

OGS Tracker catalogs every documented optical ground station on Earth — 51 stations across 18 countries, compiled from public sources, listed free. Your station is in it whether or not you ever talk to us. Verification decides something else: whether the record is merely about you, or working for you when a buyer reads it.

Who is reading your record

Nobody browses a station registry for fun. Readers arrive with a mission and leave with a shortlist: planners deciding where a downlink lands, agencies checking standards compatibility before a demonstration, network engineers assembling weather-diverse site pairs. They compare stations side by side, in one table, at the moment of decision — and then they contact somebody. The only question is whom.

What a blank field costs you

The registry never invents data. A field we can't source stays empty — and the table says so honestly: empty means not yet documented, never zero. But a buyer comparing two rows can't tell "undocumented" from "can't do it". They see this:

Same table, same buyer, same thirty seconds of attention.

Every dash in your row is a question the buyer answers with someone else's number. Verification closes them all at once: you walk the record field by field with the data desk, sources attach to what you confirm, and the dashes become figures with your name behind them. It usually takes one call.

What the seal tells a buyer

The seal is one small mark, but it makes three precise claims — each one a risk the reader no longer has to price in:

What verification includes

One tier, per station, per year:

Verification is free for academic and government stations — their confirmations are what make the seal mean something. Commercial stations pay an annual fee; networks verifying several stations get a network rate. Request verification and we reply with pricing for your station count.

How the review works

1. Claim

   Submit the verification request: your station, your role, a work email, and the booking URL you want on the record.

2. Domain check

   We correspond only with an address on the operator's own domain, and confirm on one short call that you speak for the station. No call, no seal.

3. Record walk-through

   You get your record as a field-by-field checklist. Confirm or correct each field — corrections need a source, and go through the same data-desk review as anyone else's. How to prepare for the call →

4. Booking link check

   The URL must land on a real scheduling or access-request page for this station — not a general marketing page.

5. Go live

   The seal and the booking button switch on together, and the record is stamped with the verification date. You get a confirmation email with everything on record.

Why you can trust it — and why buyers do

Common questions

Our record has an error right now. Do we have to pay to fix it?

No. Corrections are free for everyone, forever, via the contribute form — send a source and the data desk applies it. Verification is not a toll on accuracy. It is your signature on the whole record, plus the booking route.

We're an agency or a university. Why would we verify?

Because it's free, and because your record is how collaborators find you — a confirmed record with a working access-request link turns "we should talk to them someday" into a request in your inbox. The registry's credibility rests on institutional stations verifying; that's why you don't pay.

What happens if we do nothing?

Nothing punitive. Your record stays, keeps being updated from public sources, and is never ranked down. It simply carries only what's public — dashes where documentation is thin, a "last verified" date that belongs to us rather than you, and no route from the reader to your scheduling desk.

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