# European Space Agency (ESA) **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/esa/ **Website:** https://www.esa.int/ **APIs profiled:** 18 The European Space Agency (ESA) provides public REST and standards-based APIs spanning Copernicus Earth observation (OData, STAC, Sentinel Hub, openEO, OGC, S3, On-Demand Processing), space weather monitoring (HAPI), astronomical mission archives (Gaia TAP, ESASky Legacy TAP), scientific data labs (Datalabs GraphQL), and climate change initiative datasets (ESGF, THREDDS, OpenSearch). Data includes Sentinel satellite imagery, solar and heliospheric time-series, gamma-ray and stellar catalogues, and multi-mission Earth observation products from European space programs. ## Kin Score — 35.3 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.3). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 59.6 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 36.8 | | Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 | | Commercial Clarity | 28.9 | | Access Clarity | 28.9 | ## Agent readiness — 30.3 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | no | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (18) - **Copernicus Data Space OData Catalogue API** — OData-based catalogue interface for searching and downloading Copernicus Earth observation products from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Supports querying by spatial footpr... - **Copernicus Sentinel Hub API** — RESTful API interface providing access to various satellite imagery archives including raw data, rendered images, and statistical analysis without requiring local data downloads... - **Copernicus openEO API** — Standardised openEO interface enabling programmatic access and cloud processing of Earth observation datasets without local data management. Supports automatic scaling on cloud ... - **Copernicus OGC API (WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS)** — OGC-compliant web services providing seamless satellite data access through standard GIS applications. Exposes WMS (Web Map Service), WMTS (Web Map Tile Service), WFS (Web Featu... - **Copernicus On-Demand Processing (ODP) API** — Serverless computation service for generating higher-level products from archived lower-level Copernicus data using ESA processors. Supports single-item and batch processing wor... - **ESA Space Weather HAPI Server** — Heliophysics Application Programmer's Interface (HAPI) server providing access to ESA Space Weather Service Network data. Implements the COSPAR-recommended HAPI standard for str... - **ESA Gaia Archive TAP API** — Table Access Protocol (TAP) service for the ESA Gaia stellar catalogue, the most precise astrometric survey of the Milky Way. Enables ADQL (Astronomical Data Query Language) que... - **ESASky Legacy TAP Service** — IVOA Table Access Protocol (TAP) service providing access to ESA legacy mission archives including Hipparcos (~118,000 stars with milliarcsecond accuracy, 42 data products acros... - **ESA Datalabs GraphQL API** — GraphQL API for managing ESA Datalabs computational environments, data pipelines, data volumes, and user access controls. Provides 50+ query operations (datalab management, pipe... - **ESA CCI ESGF RESTful API** — Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) RESTful API providing access to ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) observational products aligned with CMIP climate model data through the O... - **European Space Agency (ESA) Bulk Transaction Extension API** — The Bulk Transaction Extension API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 1 operation(s) for bulk transaction extension. - **European Space Agency (ESA) Collections API** — The Collections API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 4 operation(s) for collections. - **European Space Agency (ESA) Conformance API** — The Conformance API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 1 operation(s) for conformance. - **European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) Asset Level STAC Catalogue API** — The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) Asset Level STAC Catalogue API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 1 operation(s) for copernicus data space ecosystem (cdse) asset leve... - **European Space Agency (ESA) Filter Extension API** — The Filter Extension API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 2 operation(s) for filter extension. - **European Space Agency (ESA) Liveliness/Readiness API** — The Liveliness/Readiness API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 1 operation(s) for liveliness/readiness. - **European Space Agency (ESA) Search API** — The Search API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 1 operation(s) for search. - **European Space Agency (ESA) Transaction Extension API** — The Transaction Extension API from European Space Agency (ESA) — 4 operation(s) for transaction extension. ## Agentic access (1) - **Esa Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 8 acting ## Security (1) - **Esa Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Esa Plans Pricing** ## Tags Earth Observation, Copernicus, Sentinel, Space Weather, Astronomy, Satellite Data, Climate, Geospatial, STAC, OData --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/esa/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.