# Orbitwren Orbital Launches API

> Orbitwren Orbital Launches API is a paid API for AI agents from orbitwren.cybermax-tools.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Returns upcoming orbital launches filtered by compute relevance, provider, country, and rideshare status, with NORAD IDs and orbital-compute project flags

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://orbitwren.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/x402/api/launches?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/orbitwren-orbital-launches-api-33bebb89
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nZmXkLfXWGvZ2dJXh1Pj1

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability orbitwren-orbital-launches-api-33bebb89
```

Example prompt: Show me all upcoming orbital launches carrying AI compute or space data center payloads in the next 120 days, flagging any rideshare missions from SpaceX — limit results to 50.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need filterable, up-to-date upcoming orbital launch data with specific flags for AI compute payloads, rideshare missions, and space data center projects. Prefer this over generic space APIs when the use case involves tracking orbital AI infrastructure, GPU satellites, or cross-referencing launches with known orbital compute companies. The compute and rideshare filters make it uniquely suited for space-tech investment monitoring or AI infrastructure tracking workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid country code returns empty results or validation error
- days parameter out of range (1-730) returns an error
- limit parameter out of range (1-100) returns an error
- Payment required (x402) if USDC payment header is missing or insufficient
- Upstream Launch Library 2 data unavailability may cause stale or empty results
- Very specific free-text queries with no matches return empty launch list

## How this service works

Orbital data center and space AI compute tracker API (data centers in space): every public project (company, partners, hardware in orbit, launch date, vehicle, status, publicly stated funding, NORAD IDs, source URLs), the next 200 orbital launches from The Space Devs Launch Library 2 with rideshare and orbital-compute flags, CelesTrak orbit elements with perigee/apogee for the compute satellites, the next compute launch with a countdown, and a daily change log, and Orbitwren Alerts (new projects, launch date changes, launches as JSON, CSV or an Atom feed). REST + MCP server.

## Output

A JSON list of upcoming orbital launches with fields including launch name, date, rocket/vehicle, launch provider, pad country, mission description, rideshare flag, orbital-compute project flag, NORAD IDs where available, and source URLs. Results are filtered according to query parameters such as provider, country, compute relevance, and rideshare status.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Free text over launch name, mission and rocket"
      },
      "days": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 90,
       "description": "Look ahead N days (1-730)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 25,
       "description": "Rows (1-100)"
      },
      "compute": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "default": false,
       "description": "Only launches carrying a tracked orbital-compute project or mentioning data centres/TPUs/GPUs"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Pad country, ISO 3166 alpha-3, e.g. USA, CHN, NZL"
      },
      "provider": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Launch provider (part of the name), e.g. SpaceX, Rocket Lab"
      },
      "rideshare": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "true = only rideshare missions (Transporter, Bandwagon ...), false = exclude them"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/orbitwren-orbital-launches-api-33bebb89/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from orbitwren.cybermax-tools.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/orbitwren.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/llms.txt)