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LeoLabs instruments API

LeoLabs radar instruments and their tasking.
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openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: LeoLabs Platform catalog instruments API
  version: v1
  description: 'The LeoLabs Platform API provides programmatic access to LeoLabs'' commercial low Earth orbit (LEO)

    catalog: tracked space objects, radar measurements, orbital state vectors, TLEs, ephemeris propagation,

    planned passes, and radar instrument tasking.


    PROVENANCE: this description was DERIVED from LeoLabs'' own published Python client

    (PyPI package `leolabs` 0.1.22, authored by "LeoLabs, Inc.", modules `leolabs/cli/commands.py`

    and `leolabs/cli/utils.py`) plus the request/response examples in that package''s README.

    It is NOT an official LeoLabs OpenAPI document — LeoLabs'' reference documentation

    (https://docs.leolabs.space/) is behind a customer login, so the authoritative contract could not be

    retrieved. Paths, methods, parameter names, the authorization header format and the response field

    names below all come verbatim from that first-party source. Nothing was invented; where the source

    did not reveal a type or a field it is simply absent here. The client was last published 2018-11-06,

    so this reflects the v1 surface as of that release and may be incomplete relative to today''s API.

    '
  contact:
    name: LeoLabs Support
    email: support@leolabs.space
    url: https://www.leolabs.space/
  x-provenance:
    method: derived
    generated: '2026-07-19'
    source: https://pypi.org/project/leolabs/0.1.22/
servers:
- url: https://api.leolabs.space/v1
  description: LeoLabs Platform API production
security:
- leolabsKeyPair: []
tags:
- name: instruments
  description: LeoLabs radar instruments and their tasking.
paths:
  /instruments:
    get:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: listInstruments
      summary: List radar instruments
      description: Lists the LeoLabs radar instruments and their siting and transmit characteristics.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The instruments.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  instruments:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Instrument'
              example:
                instruments:
                - id: pfisr
                  altitude: 213.0
                  longitude: -147.47104
                  latitude: 65.12992
                  transmitFrequency: 450000000.0
                  transmitPower: 2000000.0
                - id: msr
                  altitude: 855.0
                  longitude: -103.233245
                  latitude: 31.9643
                  transmitFrequency: 440000000.0
                  transmitPower: 65000.0
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /instruments/{instrumentId}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/InstrumentId'
    get:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: getInstrument
      summary: Get a radar instrument
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The instrument.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Instrument'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /instruments/{instrumentId}/statistics:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/InstrumentId'
    get:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: getInstrumentStatistics
      summary: Get statistics for a radar instrument
      description: 'Returns statistics for a radar instrument. The LeoLabs client passes the literal value `all`

        as the instrument id to request statistics across all instruments.

        '
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Statistics.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /instruments/{instrumentId}/tasks:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/InstrumentId'
    get:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: listInstrumentTasks
      summary: List tasks for a radar instrument
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The tasks.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
    post:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: createInstrumentTask
      summary: Create a task on a radar instrument
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - startTime
              - endTime
              properties:
                startTime:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                endTime:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The created task.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TaskRef'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /instruments/{instrumentId}/tasks/{taskId}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/InstrumentId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TaskId'
    get:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: getInstrumentTask
      summary: Get a radar instrument task
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The task.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /instruments/{instrumentId}/tasks/{taskId}/measurements:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/InstrumentId'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TaskId'
    get:
      tags:
      - instruments
      operationId: listInstrumentTaskMeasurements
      summary: List measurements collected by a task
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The measurements.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  measurements:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Measurement'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    MeasurementCorrection:
      type: object
      description: A correction applied to a raw measurement.
      properties:
        source:
          type: string
          description: Correction source, e.g. `leolabs`, `iri16`.
        type:
          type: string
          description: Correction type, e.g. `doppler_bias`, `range_bias`, `ionospheric`.
        value:
          type: number
        error:
          type: number
    Instrument:
      type: object
      description: A LeoLabs radar instrument.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        latitude:
          type: number
        longitude:
          type: number
        altitude:
          type: number
        transmitFrequency:
          type: number
        transmitPower:
          type: number
    Measurement:
      type: object
      description: A single radar measurement of a catalog object.
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        catalogNumber:
          type: string
        noradCatalogNumber:
          type: integer
        instrument:
          type: string
        experiment:
          type: integer
        beam:
          type: integer
        group:
          type: integer
        targetPass:
          type: integer
        snr:
          type: number
        integrationTime:
          type: number
        transmittedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        receivedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        measuredAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        updatedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        values:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MeasurementValues'
        corrected:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MeasurementValues'
        corrections:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/MeasurementCorrection'
    MeasurementValues:
      type: object
      description: Raw or corrected radar observables for a measurement.
      properties:
        range:
          type: number
        rangeError:
          type: number
        doppler:
          type: number
        dopplerError:
          type: number
        azimuth:
          type: number
        elevation:
          type: number
        rcs:
          type: number
          description: Radar cross section.
    TaskRef:
      type: object
      description: A reference to a created tasking request.
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
    Error:
      type: object
      description: 'Error envelope. The official LeoLabs client falls back to `{"error": "unknown"}` when a failed

        response body cannot be parsed as JSON, indicating a top-level `error` member.

        '
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid LeoLabs access key / secret key pair.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    InstrumentId:
      name: instrumentId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Radar instrument id, e.g. `pfisr` or `msr`. Some endpoints accept the literal `all`.
      schema:
        type: string
    TaskId:
      name: taskId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Task id.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    leolabsKeyPair:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'LeoLabs access key / secret key pair, sent as `Authorization: basic <accessKey>:<secretKey>`.

        Despite the `basic` prefix this is not RFC 7617 HTTP Basic — the LeoLabs client sends the two

        keys colon-joined and unencoded. Keys are issued from the LeoLabs Platform

        (https://platform.leolabs.space/) and the official client reads them from the

        `LEOLABS_ACCESS_KEY` and `LEOLABS_SECRET_KEY` environment variables or from `~/.leolabs/config`.

        '
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