diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index a2f8afa24..5ddf78383 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ OPENSKY_AUTH_MODE=oauth
OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID=
OPENSKY_CLIENT_SECRET=
-# Optional: higher Launch Library 2 request allowance. Public access works
-# without a token.
+# Launch Library 2: leave blank for standard public access (no key needed).
+# Optional paid Patreon tokens raise request limits; there is no free API key.
LL2_API_TOKEN=
# Optional: OpenSky credentials JSON file path (alternative to above)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c49c53ece..c3c3d7ef3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Twenty layers and map sources. **Eighteen have a keyless path.** Some offer addi
| 🚲 **Bikeshare** | Live station availability | GBFS | 🟢 |
| 🧭 **Directions** | Click A and B on the globe for a street-following drive, walk or cycle route draped on the terrain with turn-by-turn steps — then FLY the camera along it. No key, no geocoder, no mic | OSRM on FOSSGIS servers (OpenStreetMap) | 🟢 |
| 🔥 **Active Fires** | Live NASA FIRMS detections, trailing 24h | NASA FIRMS | 🟡 |
-| 🚀 **Space Missions** | Rolling 30-day launches with payload, stage, and recovery detail | Launch Library 2 | 🟢 (🟡 optional token raises the allowance) |
+| 🚀 **Space Missions** | Rolling 30-day launches with payload, stage, and recovery detail | Launch Library 2 | 🟢 (🔴 optional paid token raises the allowance) |
| 🎖️ **Mapped Installations** | Viewport-bounded military-site context from community mapping — incomplete by nature, and labeled that way | OpenStreetMap | 🟢 |
| 🌬️ **Wind** | Animated 10 m forecast wind with an optional speed, temperature or pressure color field and a reading at map center | NOAA GFS / ECMWF IFS | 🟢 |
| 🌦️ **Observed Weather** | Rain radar (contiguous US), Satellite clouds (GOES regional or global infrared, Clouds only or Full image) and Lightning density (Americas and Pacific) on one history timeline | NOAA nowCOAST | 🟢 |
@@ -527,9 +527,11 @@ _What the TomTom key buys you: rush-hour density painted on the city — then di
| | Key | Why | Get it |
| --- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| 🟡 | **OpenSky** | ✈️ More flight-polling credits (🟢 anonymous works without) | [opensky-network.org](https://opensky-network.org) |
-| 🟡 | **Launch Library 2** | 🚀 Higher space-missions request allowance (🟢 works without) | [thespacedevs.com](https://thespacedevs.com) |
+| 🔴 | **Launch Library 2** | 🚀 Optional paid token for higher limits (🟢 no key needed for public access) | [thespacedevs.com/supportus](https://thespacedevs.com/supportus) |
Add these if you need higher polling allowances.
+Leave `LL2_API_TOKEN` blank for standard public access. LL2 tokens are optional
+paid Patreon upgrades for higher limits; there is no free API-key signup.
`npm run doctor` reports Node/npm readiness, the primary provider routes, and
where each configured provider was found without printing credential values.
diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
index e53883548..b694d8dcd 100644
--- a/SECURITY.md
+++ b/SECURITY.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The data proxies under `server/providers/` are written so the browser cannot tur
- **Sanitized errors** — internal error details are not echoed back to clients.
- **Coalesced OAuth refresh** and cached successful responses only (OpenSky).
- **Redacted debug logging.** The voice debug log (`.gev-logs/`, gitignored) strips API keys, bearer tokens, client secrets, and image data URLs before writing.
-- **Cross-site gate on cost/log endpoints.** The cost-bearing (`/api/realtime/token`, `/api/openai/hud-summary`, `/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`), quota-bearing (`/api/mapillary/*`, with a per-IP limit on tiles, and `/api/tomtom/*`, backed by its persistent daily tile budget) and log (`/api/realtime/debug-log`) endpoints refuse cross-site browser requests: a foreign or opaque `Origin`, a `Sec-Fetch-Site` other than `same-origin`/`none` (this is what blocks an `
`/navigation that carries no `Origin`), or any reverse-proxy/CDN forwarding header returns `403`. Non-browser loopback tools (the repo QA harnesses POST the token endpoint with no `Origin`) and the explicit `HOST=0.0.0.0` LAN opt-in keep working — the gate deliberately does not require a loopback remote address; that stricter requirement belongs only to the credential panel (`admitKeySetupRequest`). The Host check (`allowedHosts`, applied by `hostCheckPlugin` ahead of every route, since Vite's own check runs only after plugin middleware) rejects a rebinding `Host` before any handler runs, in every mode, and the gate is defense in depth behind it: the LAN opt-in keeps that check and accepts only IP addresses, `localhost` and names listed in `GEV_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. **Limit:** a name you list there is trusted like the app's own address, so list only names you control.
+- **Cross-site gate on cost/log endpoints.** The cost-bearing (`/api/realtime/token`, `/api/openai/hud-summary`, `/api/google/nearby-places`, `/api/google/text-search`), quota-bearing (`/api/mapillary/*`, with a per-IP limit on tiles, and `/api/tomtom/*`, backed by its persistent daily tile budget) and log (`/api/realtime/debug-log`) endpoints refuse cross-site browser requests: a foreign or opaque `Origin`, a `Sec-Fetch-Site` other than `same-origin`/`none` (this is what blocks an `
`/navigation that carries no `Origin`), or any reverse-proxy/CDN forwarding header returns `403`. Non-browser loopback tools (the repo QA harnesses POST the token endpoint with no `Origin`) and the explicit `HOST=0.0.0.0` LAN opt-in keep working — the gate deliberately does not require a loopback remote address; that stricter requirement belongs only to the credential panel (`admitKeySetupRequest`). The Host check (`allowedHosts`, applied by `hostCheckPlugin` ahead of every route, since Vite's own check runs only after plugin middleware) rejects a rebinding `Host` before any handler runs, in every mode, and the gate is defense in depth behind it: the LAN opt-in keeps that check and accepts only IP addresses, `localhost` and names listed in `GEV_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. **Limit:** a name you list there is trusted like the app's own address, so list only names you control. The keyless terrain route (`/api/terrain/heights`) uses the same cross-site checks, minus the forwarding-header refusal: it guards only the per-client quota and point cache, not a key or a bill, and the map needs it to render behind a reverse proxy.
- **Full Content-Security-Policy.** The dev and preview servers send a real CSP (`script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' blob:` plus the YouTube, Facebook and X scripts the Nepal event's embedded media loads and the Maps JavaScript API that Street View runs on, with a matching `frame-src` for their players and posts: no inline script and no other script origin; `blob:` covers the object URLs Cesium's bundled workers bootstrap through in the built app), alongside the existing `X-Frame-Options: DENY` and `frame-ancestors 'none'`. `'unsafe-eval'` stays because Knockout, bundled inside Cesium's widgets package, resolves the global object with `eval` at load time and the globe does not initialize without it; styles permit `'unsafe-inline'` and Google Fonts because Vite's dev client injects `