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SpaceX (Community API)

Community-maintained, open-source REST and GraphQL API for SpaceX data — launches, rockets, capsules, cores, crew, dragons, payloads, ships, landpads, launchpads, Starlink satellites, the Tesla Roadster ephemeris, company info, and historical events. Operated by the r-spacex community (the same group behind the r/SpaceX subreddit) and licensed Apache 2.0. The canonical hosted base URL is https://api.spacexdata.com and the canonical source repository is https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API. The API is currently in MAINTENANCE-ONLY MODE as of 2024. New launches and missions are NOT being added to the dataset; the project remains online for historical lookups and as a teaching/sample API. This makes it an excellent fixture for SDK tutorials, MCP server demos, and API design exercises, but it is no longer a live source of upcoming SpaceX flight data. The data is organized as a MongoDB document store with cross-resource UUID references; the /query endpoints expose mongoose-paginate-v2 with full MongoDB find()/options semantics. Authentication is only required for destructive (create/update/delete) admin routes; all read operations are public. This community project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles SpaceX (Community API) the way a machine reads it — 68 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — SpaceX (Community API) scores 51.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 5.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile SpaceX (Community API)

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for SpaceX (Community API). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 15

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SpaceX GraphQL API (community)

Community-maintained GraphQL gateways over the SpaceX REST data, providing typed schema access and nested-field selection across launches, rockets, missions, payloads, ships, an...

SpaceX (Community API) Capsules API

Detailed info for serialized Dragon capsules.

SpaceX (Community API) Company API

Detailed info about SpaceX as a company (single document).

SpaceX (Community API) Cores API

Detailed info for serialized first-stage cores.

SpaceX (Community API) Crew API

Detailed info on Dragon crew members.

SpaceX (Community API) Dragons API

Detailed info about Dragon capsule versions.

SpaceX (Community API) History API

Detailed info on SpaceX historical events.

SpaceX (Community API) Landpads API

Detailed info about landing pads and droneships.

SpaceX (Community API) Launches API

Detailed info about SpaceX launches (v4 and v5).

SpaceX (Community API) Launchpads API

Detailed info about launchpads.

SpaceX (Community API) Payloads API

Detailed info about launch payloads.

SpaceX (Community API) Roadster API

Detailed info about Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ephemeris.

SpaceX (Community API) Rockets API

Detailed info about rocket versions.

SpaceX (Community API) Ships API

Detailed info about ships in the SpaceX fleet.

SpaceX (Community API) Starlink API

Detailed info about Starlink satellites and orbits.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

SpaceX REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

SpaceX (Community API) GraphQL API

Community-maintained GraphQL gateways over the SpaceX REST data, providing typed schema access and nested-field selection across launches, rockets, missions, payloads, ships, an...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spacex Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spacex Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Spacex Context

0 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

SpaceX (Community API) API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

SpaceX (Community API) API Rules

32 rules · 10 errors · 15 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 14

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

SpaceX Capsule

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Company

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Core

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX CrewMember

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Dragon

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX HistoryEvent

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Landpad

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Launch

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Launchpad

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Payload

28 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Roadster

27 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Rocket

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX Ship

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaceX StarlinkSat

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 14

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spacex Capsule Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Company Structure

16 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Core Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Crew Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Dragon Structure

23 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex History Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Landpad Structure

14 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Launch Structure

26 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Launchpad Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Payload Structure

28 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Roadster Structure

27 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Rocket Structure

22 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Ship Structure

24 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spacex Starlink Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 15

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Spacex Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Spacex Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Spacex Agentic Access

43 operations · 13 acting

43 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for SpaceX (Community API) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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