ATLAS v3 is public from today. The REST API, the STAC catalogue and the SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Go are available to anyone, and the SDKs are Apache 2.0 on GitHub.
The design principle was that there should be nothing the ORBIS Viewer can do that the API cannot. Tasking, feasibility, catalogue search, delivery, subscriptions, FIELDKIT telemetry. The Viewer is a client of the same API you use.
The deprecation policy is published and I want to draw attention to it because it is a commitment rather than an aspiration: no breaking changes within a major version, and 36 months of support after a successor ships. If we break that, hold us to it.
There is a free sandbox tier — 1,000 requests a day against a fixed 2024 sample catalogue. It exists so that people can evaluate the API without a commercial conversation, and so that universities can teach with it. Terravek Academy's ATLAS course runs entirely on the sandbox.
The OpenAPI 3.1 specification is at docs.terravek.com/atlas/v3/. Issues and pull requests on the SDKs are genuinely welcome.