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.
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.
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.
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 COLLECTIONGraphQL 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...
GRAPHQLPricing 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
PLANSRate 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
RATE LIMITSSemantic 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALSpaceX (Community API) API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Company
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Core
JSON SCHEMASpaceX CrewMember
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Dragon
JSON SCHEMASpaceX HistoryEvent
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Landpad
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Launch
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Launchpad
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Payload
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Roadster
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Rocket
JSON SCHEMASpaceX Ship
JSON SCHEMASpaceX StarlinkSat
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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
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Company Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Core Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Crew Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Dragon Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex History Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Landpad Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Launch Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Launchpad Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Payload Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Roadster Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Rocket Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Ship Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpacex Starlink 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.
Spacex Getcapsule Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getcompany Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getcore Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getcrewmember Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getdragon Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getlandpad Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getlaunchpad Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getnextlaunch Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getpayload Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getroadster Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getrocket Example
EXAMPLESpacex Getship Example
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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.
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.
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
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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