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.
APIs.json: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spacex/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- Type: Index
- Position: Provider
- Access: 3rd-Party
- Space
- Launch
- Satellites
- Starlink
- Falcon 9
- Falcon Heavy
- Dragon
- Rockets
- Open Source
- Community
- REST
- GraphQL
- Open Data
- Created: 2026-05-23
- Modified: 2026-05-29
Open-source REST API exposing all SpaceX launch, rocket, capsule, core, crew, dragon, ship, landpad, launchpad, payload, Starlink, Roadster, company, and history data. v4 is the canonical resource surface; the Launches resource also has a v5 surface that omits the v4 response/query transforms. Read operations are unauthenticated; destructive operations require an x-spacex-key header.
- Human URL: https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API
- Base URL:
https://api.spacexdata.com
- Launches
- Rockets
- Capsules
- Cores
- Crew
- Dragons
- Payloads
- Ships
- Landpads
- Launchpads
- Starlink
- Roadster
- Company
- History
- Documentation
- Getting Started
- Source Code
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- Postman — Postman Collection 2.1
- License
- Changelog
- Status
- Backups
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- JSON Schema — JSON Schema
- SDK
- SDK
- SDK
- SDK
- SDK
- SDK
- SDK
- SDK
Community-maintained GraphQL gateways over the SpaceX REST data, providing typed schema access and nested-field selection across launches, rockets, missions, payloads, ships, and crew. Multiple community gateways exist; the SpaceXLand/api project is the most widely cited reference implementation. Like the REST surface, the underlying dataset is in maintenance-only mode as of 2024.
- Human URL: https://github.com/SpaceXLand/api
- GraphQL
- Launches
- Rockets
- Missions
- Documentation
- Source Code
- Graph Q L Alternative
- Graph Q L Alternative
- Graph Q L Alternative
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- Website
- GitHub Organization
- Source Code
- License
- Documentation
- Getting Started
- Changelog
- Issues
- Pull Requests
- Status
- Backups
- Docker Image
- Clients
- Apps
- A P I Style Guide
- Subreddit
- Plans
- Rate Limits
- Spectral Rules
- Vocabulary
- J S O N L D Context
- Tools
FN: Kin Lane Email: kin@apievangelist.com