NASA Open APIs

NASA Open APIs Stations API

The Stations API from NASA Open APIs — 1 operation(s) for stations.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 1

GET /groundStations List Ground Stations #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://api.nasa.gov/
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Documentation
https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/tools/DONKI/
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Documentation
https://eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/v3
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Documentation
https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/api
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Documentation
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/TAP/usingTAP.html
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Documentation
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/
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Documentation
https://images.nasa.gov/docs/images.nasa.gov_api_docs.pdf
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Documentation
https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Documentation
https://techport.nasa.gov/api
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Documentation
https://tle.ivanstanojevic.me/
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Documentation
https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/REST/
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Documentation
https://genelab.nasa.gov/genelab-help/genelab-api
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Documentation
https://trek.nasa.gov/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/openapi/nasa-gov-stations-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/json-schema/apod-schema.json

Other Resources

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SourceCode
https://github.com/nasa/apod-api
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SourceCode
https://github.com/SpaceRocks/NeoWs
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SourceCode
https://github.com/chrisccerami/mars-photo-api
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SourceCode
https://github.com/nasa/NASA-Image-and-Video-Library
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Portal
https://technology.nasa.gov/

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OpenAPI Specification

nasa-gov-stations-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: NASA Satellite Situation Center (SSC) Web Services Stations API
  description: 'System to cast geocentric spacecraft location information into a framework of (empirical) geophysical

    regions and mappings of point locations along the spacecraft trajectory to/from locations of interest

    (e.g. magnetic conjunctions, IMF mappings).

    '
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Satellite Situation Center
    url: https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/REST/
  license:
    name: US Government Work (Public Domain)
servers:
- url: https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WS/sscr/2
tags:
- name: Stations
paths:
  /groundStations:
    get:
      summary: List Ground Stations
      operationId: listGroundStations
      tags:
      - Stations
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of ground stations.