NASA Satellite Situation Center API

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).

NASA Satellite Situation Center API is one of 17 APIs that NASA Open APIs publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 machine-runnable capability that can be deployed as REST, MCP, or Agent Skill surfaces via Naftiko.

Tagged areas include Satellites, Heliophysics, Spacecraft, and NASA. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and 1 Naftiko capability spec.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Documentation

https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/REST/

Specifications

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/openapi/satellite-situation-center-openapi.yml

Other Resources

NaftikoCapability

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/capabilities/satellite-situation-center.yaml

OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: NASA Satellite Situation Center (SSC) Web Services
  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
paths:
  /observatories:
    get:
      summary: List Observatories
      operationId: listObservatories
      tags:
      - Observatories
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of available observatories (spacecraft).
  /groundStations:
    get:
      summary: List Ground Stations
      operationId: listGroundStations
      tags:
      - Stations
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of ground stations.
  /locations:
    get:
      summary: Get Spacecraft Locations
      operationId: getLocations
      tags:
      - Locations
      parameters:
      - name: observatories
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: startTime
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: endTime
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: coords
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Spacecraft coordinate locations across the requested time range.