UP42
UP42 is a geospatial marketplace and developer platform for Earth observation (EO) data and analytics, operated by Airbus Defence and Space. It lets you search a global archive of satellite and aerial imagery (Catalog), task new satellite acquisitions on demand (Tasking), place and track Orders, store and download results as cloud-native Assets, and browse everything through a STAC-compliant data management API. Delivery, ordering, and storage are exposed over a documented REST API at https://api.up42.com, authenticated with OAuth2 access tokens (obtained from an API key or account credentials), and are also wrapped by an official Python SDK. Storage is powered by STAC and the cloud-native asset model, and job/order status changes can be pushed to consumer endpoints via webhooks.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles UP42 the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — UP42 scores 24.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile UP42
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UP42. 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 8
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.
UP42 Catalog API
Search the archive of previously captured imagery.
UP42 Orders API
Estimate, place, and track catalog and tasking orders.
UP42 Processing API
Run analytics and processing over stored assets.
UP42 STAC Data Management API
STAC-compliant view of everything in your storage.
UP42 Storage Assets API
List, inspect, and download geospatial assets in storage.
UP42 Tasking API
Commission new satellite acquisitions on demand.
UP42 Webhooks API
Register HTTPS endpoints for order and job status events.
UP42 Workspaces & Account API
Account, workspace, and budget context.
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Open Collections 10
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog Orders API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog Processing API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog STAC Data Management API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog Storage Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog Tasking API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog Webhooks API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 Catalog Workspaces & Account API
OPEN COLLECTIONUP42 API
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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Up42 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.
Up42 Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Up42 Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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 UP42 — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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