# Starlink

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/starlink/  
**Website:** https://www.starlink.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Starlink is the low-Earth-orbit satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, delivering broadband and non-terrestrial connectivity to residential, business, maritime, aviation, and government customers in the United States and roughly a hundred other markets. In the telecom value chain Starlink is an access-network operator that sells connectivity directly to end customers and wholesales capacity to airlines, shipping lines, and mobile network operators, rather than a CPaaS aggregator or a GSMA-affiliated mobile network operator. Its API posture is unusually open for an access provider and unusually narrow in scope. The Starlink Public API V2 is fully documented in public at starlink.readme.io, its OpenAPI 3.0.4 description is downloadable anonymously from starlink.com with no login, and SpaceX publishes an official gRPC protobuf for the local device API on GitHub. But the API is operational rather than developer-product, covering account, service line, user terminal, router, billing, and telemetry management, and credentials are gated behind an enterprise or business Starlink account whose admin must mint a V2 service account. No CAMARA implementation, no GSMA Open Gateway participation, and no TM Forum Open API conformance was found anywhere in Starlink's published material.

## Kin Score — 58.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 58.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 56.8 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 86.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 62.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 66.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 48.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (7)

- **Starlink Public API V2** — The Starlink Public API V2 manages accounts, addresses, contacts, service lines, user terminals, WiFi routers, data pools, and billing for business and enterprise Starlink accou...
- **Starlink Telemetry Stream API** — A low-latency JSON over HTTP streaming API for device telemetry, consumed by repeated small-batch POST requests with batchSize and maxLingerMs parameters. POST /public/v2/teleme...
- **Starlink Mobile Data API** — A gated feature within the Starlink Public API V2 exposing Starlink Mobile radio access network data, usage and beam reliability timeseries, and map data, each partitioned by ti...
- **Starlink Aviation Flight Status API** — A single endpoint, POST /public/v2/flights/status, for posting real-time flight events from a Starlink-equipped aircraft. It is only callable from an aviation account and requir...
- **Starlink Local Device API** — SpaceX's officially supported local gRPC API on Starlink hardware, defined in protobuf and published verbatim on GitHub as device.proto. The SpaceX.API.Device service exposes a ...
- **Starlink Router Local HTTPS API** — An optional HTTPS server hosted on the Starlink WiFi router itself, enabled through a router config in the Starlink dashboard with an enterprise-managed TLS certificate, key, an...
- **Starlink Space Traffic Coordination API** — The API behind space-safety.starlink.com, SpaceX's free conjunction screening and maneuver coordination platform for satellite operators. Version 0.1 of the reference documents ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **starlink-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Starlink Agentic Access** — 63 operations · 36 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Starlink Authentication** — oauth2/http/mutualTLS · 4 schemes
- **Starlink Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Starlink Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Telecommunications, United States, Satellite, Broadband, Non-Terrestrial Networks, Connectivity, Device Management, Telemetry, Aviation, Maritime, Enterprise

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/starlink/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.