# SYNTHORA Live Aircraft States in Bounding Box

> SYNTHORA Live Aircraft States in Bounding Box is a paid API for AI agents from opensky-live-flights.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns real-time ADS-B aircraft state vectors (callsign, position, altitude, velocity, heading) for all aircraft within a specified geographic bounding box via OpenSky Network.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://opensky-live-flights.hergertsynthora.com/service
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-live-aircraft-states-in-bounding-box-07bb8911
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kJ8P96kWQm2kxTpqBh424

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 synthora-live-aircraft-states-in-bounding-box-07bb8911 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull live ADS-B aircraft states right now for the bounding box from latitude 40.5 to 41.0 and longitude -74.3 to -73.7 — that's roughly the New York City area — and tell me all callsigns, altitudes, and headings you see.

## When to prefer this

Prefer this endpoint when you need real-time, anonymous ADS-B aircraft state data for a defined geographic region without requiring an OpenSky API key or account. It is ideal for autonomous agents performing airspace monitoring, noise analysis, logistics tracking, or aviation OSINT that need a pay-per-call model with no subscription overhead. If you need historical flight data, airline schedules, or airport-level queries, a different endpoint would be more appropriate.

## Known failure modes

- Empty result set if no aircraft are currently within the specified bounding box
- Invalid bounding box coordinates (e.g. lamin > lamax or lomin > lomax) may return an error or empty result
- OpenSky Network upstream outage may cause delayed or missing data
- Overly large bounding boxes covering many aircraft may return very large payloads or be rate-limited
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient

## How this service works

Returns real-time ADS-B aircraft state vectors (callsign, position, altitude, velocity, heading) within a geographic bounding box from the OpenSky Network, keyless anonymous. Autonomous aviation, logistics, noise-monitoring and OSINT agents consume it for A2A flight tracking and agent-to-agent airspace analysis. Ranking surface: live flights API, ADS-B, aircraft tracker, OpenSky, air traffic, flight states.

## Output

A JSON object with an 'ok' boolean and a 'result' field containing ADS-B state vectors for all aircraft currently within the specified bounding box. Each state vector includes fields such as ICAO24 transponder code, callsign, origin country, geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude), barometric and geometric altitude, velocity, true track heading, vertical rate, and on-ground status — sourced live from the OpenSky Network.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "lamax": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "lamax"
  },
  "lamin": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "lamin"
  },
  "lomax": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "lomax"
  },
  "lomin": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "lomin"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "niche": "opensky-live-flights",
  "result": {}
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-live-aircraft-states-in-bounding-box-07bb8911/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from opensky-live-flights.hergertsynthora.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/opensky-live-flights.hergertsynthora.com/llms.txt)