Northwood Space

Northwood Space is an El Segundo, California ground-infrastructure company for the space industry, founded in 2022 by Bridgit Mendler (CEO), Griffin Cleverly (CTO), and Shaurya Luthra. It designs and delivers rapidly deployable satellite ground stations built on electronically steerable phased-array antennas that track many satellites at once with no moving parts, paired with software ("Portal") that orchestrates every contact, automates scheduling, and moves data from spacecraft to customer. Northwood aims to turn ground infrastructure into cloud-like, on-demand global capacity for defense and commercial operators. The company's software stack is described as developer-oriented with modern APIs and integration hooks, but it publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or SDKs at this time. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Founders Fund, Washington Harbour Partners, and Alpine Space Ventures; raised a $100M Series B and won a $50M Space Force contract in early 2026.

Northwood Space is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Space, Satellite, Ground Station, and Aerospace.

Northwood Space’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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9.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Space Satellite Ground Station Aerospace Defense Infrastructure Communications A2A

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 9.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 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)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Agent2Agent

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Northwood Space MCP Server

Remote MCP server at docs.northwoodspace.io over streamable HTTP requiring OAuth.

MCP SERVER

Northwood Space API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Northwood Space Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Northwood Space Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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

Northwood Space Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Careers

Careers

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

AgentCard

AgentCard

Source (apis.yml)

aid: northwood-space
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/northwood-space.png
name: Northwood Space
description: Northwood Space is an El Segundo, California ground-infrastructure company for the space industry, founded in
  2022 by Bridgit Mendler (CEO), Griffin Cleverly (CTO), and Shaurya Luthra. It designs and delivers rapidly deployable satellite
  ground stations built on electronically steerable phased-array antennas that track many satellites at once with no moving
  parts, paired with software ("Portal") that orchestrates every contact, automates scheduling, and moves data from spacecraft
  to customer. Northwood aims to turn ground infrastructure into cloud-like, on-demand global capacity for defense and commercial
  operators. The company's software stack is described as developer-oriented with modern APIs and integration hooks, but it
  publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or SDKs at this time. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Founders
  Fund, Washington Harbour Partners, and Alpine Space Ventures; raised a $100M Series B and won a $50M Space Force contract
  in early 2026.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/northwood-space/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-docs-platform: redocly
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Space
- Satellite
- Ground Station
- Aerospace
- Defense
- Infrastructure
- Communications
- A2A
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
common:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.northwoodspace.io/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/careers
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Northwood-Space
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/northwood-stock
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/northwood-space-well-known.yml
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/northwood-space-a2a.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/northwood-space-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/northwood-space-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/northwood-space-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/northwood-space-rate-limits.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/northwood-space-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.northwoodspace.io/privacy-policy
x-a2a:
  verified: true
  probed: '2026-09-26'
  url: https://docs.northwoodspace.io/.well-known/agent-card.json
  grade: conformant
  protocol_version: 0.3.0
  control: 404

Northwood Space API — frequently asked questions

Does Northwood Space have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Northwood Space: Remote MCP server at docs.northwoodspace.io over streamable HTTP requiring OAuth.

Is the Northwood Space API ready for AI agents?

Northwood Space has a Kin Score of 9.9 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 14.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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