Near Space Labs

Near Space Labs is a New York based Earth-observation company that operates a fleet of autonomous, wind-navigated stratospheric vehicles ("Swifty") flying at roughly 65,000 feet to capture 7cm-resolution orthoimagery across approximately 80% of the United States, refreshed twice a year. Imagery is delivered programmatically through a public developer surface at docs.nearspacelabs.com: an OAuth 2.0 client-credentials token service and a standards-based XYZ Tile Service on api.nearspacelabs.net that streams PNG/JPEG tiles at zoom 14-21, exposes paginated survey catalogs, GeoJSON footprints, WKT-based coverage queries and mosaic-update feeds. Both services publish machine-readable Swagger 2.0 contracts and share a single Postman collection. Customers use the imagery for P&C insurance underwriting and claims, state and local government GIS, utility and infrastructure monitoring, forestry and wildfire risk, mapping basemaps, and roofing and home services.

Near Space Labs publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Tile API and OAUTH API. Tagged areas include Company, Earth Observation, Aerial Imagery, Geospatial, and Satellite and Remote Sensing.

Near Space Labs’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, code examples, and 21 more developer resources.

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37.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessSelf serve

2 published contracts 4 Agent Skills

Company Earth Observation Aerial Imagery GeospatialSatellite and Remote SensingMapping Tiles Insurance Government Utilities Location Imagery Remote Sensing

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 37.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.0 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 39.4 — up to +15.2 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	undeclared	-	-	-
Overture Maps Foundation (members + data contributors)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Near Space Labs Tile API

The Tile API from Near Space Labs — 19 operation(s) for tile.

Near Space Labs OAUTH API

The Oauth API from Near Space Labs — 1 operation(s) for oauth.

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Authenticate with Near Space Labs

AGENT SKILL

Detect change in a survey over time

AGENT SKILL

Find imagery for an area of interest

AGENT SKILL

Serve Near Space Labs tiles in a web map

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Near Space Labs Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Near Space Labs Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Near Space Labs Oauth Service Overlay

4 actions · documentation · near-space-labs-oauth-service.json

DERIVED

Near Space Labs Tile Service Overlay

22 actions · documentation · near-space-labs-tile-service.json

DERIVED

Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Near Space Labs Oauth Token 401 Example1

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Near Space Labs Tile Mosaic_Id Footprint 200 Example1

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Near Space Labs Tile Mosaic_Id Footprint 200 Example2

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Near Space Labs Tile V2 Mosaic_Id Footprint 200 Example1

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Near Space Labs Tile V2 Mosaic_Id Footprint 200 Example2

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Near Space Labs Tile V2 Surveys 200 Example1

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Near Space Labs Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Near Space Labs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

DataModel

Lifecycle

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

SDKs

Examples

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: near-space-labs
name: Near Space Labs
description: 'Near Space Labs is a New York based Earth-observation company that operates a fleet of autonomous, wind-navigated
  stratospheric vehicles ("Swifty") flying at roughly 65,000 feet to capture 7cm-resolution orthoimagery across approximately
  80% of the United States, refreshed twice a year. Imagery is delivered programmatically through a public developer surface
  at docs.nearspacelabs.com: an OAuth 2.0 client-credentials token service and a standards-based XYZ Tile Service on api.nearspacelabs.net
  that streams PNG/JPEG tiles at zoom 14-21, exposes paginated survey catalogs, GeoJSON footprints, WKT-based coverage queries
  and mosaic-update feeds. Both services publish machine-readable Swagger 2.0 contracts and share a single Postman collection.
  Customers use the imagery for P&C insurance underwriting and claims, state and local government GIS, utility and infrastructure
  monitoring, forestry and wildfire risk, mapping basemaps, and roofing and home services.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/699b3c4514bfe203a098fbc3/69ea4c7bdbd743e1fa21e934_logo.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/near-space-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Earth Observation
- Aerial Imagery
- Geospatial
- Satellite and Remote Sensing
- Mapping
- Tiles
- Insurance
- Government
- Utilities
- Location
- Imagery
- Remote Sensing
apis:
- aid: near-space-labs:near-space-labs-tile-api
  name: Near Space Labs Tile API
  description: The Tile API from Near Space Labs — 19 operation(s) for tile.
  humanURL: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/tile-server
  baseURL: https://api.nearspacelabs.net
  tags:
  - Tile
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/near-space-labs-tile-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/retrieving-tiles
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/tile-server
  - type: Postman
    url: postman/near-space-labs-postman-collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/near-space-labs-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/near-space-labs-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/near-space-labs-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/near-space-labs-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/near-space-labs-authentication.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/authentication
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/oauth
- aid: near-space-labs:near-space-labs-oauth-api
  name: Near Space Labs OAUTH API
  description: The Oauth API from Near Space Labs — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
  humanURL: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/tile-server
  baseURL: https://api.nearspacelabs.net
  tags:
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Oauth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/near-space-labs-oauth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/retrieving-tiles
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/tile-server
  - type: Postman
    url: postman/near-space-labs-postman-collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/near-space-labs-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/near-space-labs-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/near-space-labs-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/near-space-labs-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/near-space-labs-authentication.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/authentication
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/oauth
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-backed-by:
- leadout-capital
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/near-space-labs-tile-service-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/near-space-labs-oauth-service-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nearspacelabs.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/api/tile-server
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/authentication
- type: Support
  url: https://www.nearspacelabs.com/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.nearspacelabs.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/nearspacelabs
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.nearspacelabs.com/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.nearspacelabs.com/
- type: Postman
  url: https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/nsl_postman.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/near-space-labs-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/near-space-labs-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/near-space-labs-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/near-space-labs-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/near-space-labs-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/near-space-labs-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/near-space-labs-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/near-space-labs-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/near-space-labs-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/near-space-labs-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/near-space-labs-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/near-space-labs-plans-pricing.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/near-space-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/near-space-labs-examples.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 48
  pass: local-v1

Near Space Labs API — frequently asked questions

Does Near Space Labs have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Near Space Labs, including Near Space Labs Tile API and Near Space Labs OAUTH API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Near Space Labs API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Near Space Labs, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Near Space Labs API?

Near Space Labs uses bearer-token authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Near Space Labs Authentication.

Is the Near Space Labs API ready for AI agents?

Near Space Labs has a Kin Score of 37.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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