European Space Agency (ESA)

aid: esa
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/esa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: European Space Agency (ESA)
kind: company
description: >-
  The European Space Agency (ESA) provides public REST and standards-based APIs spanning
  Copernicus Earth observation (OData, STAC, Sentinel Hub, openEO, OGC, S3, On-Demand
  Processing), space weather monitoring (HAPI), astronomical mission archives (Gaia TAP,
  ESASky Legacy TAP), scientific data labs (Datalabs GraphQL), and climate change
  initiative datasets (ESGF, THREDDS, OpenSearch). Data includes Sentinel satellite imagery,
  solar and heliospheric time-series, gamma-ray and stellar catalogues, and multi-mission
  Earth observation products from European space programs.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Earth Observation
  - Copernicus
  - Sentinel
  - Space Weather
  - Astronomy
  - Satellite Data
  - Climate
  - Geospatial
  - STAC
  - OData
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: esa:copernicus-odata
    name: Copernicus Data Space OData Catalogue API
    description: >-
      OData-based catalogue interface for searching and downloading Copernicus Earth
      observation products from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Supports querying
      by spatial footprint, acquisition date, product type, and collection name across
      Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-5P, and other missions. Exposes
      OData query parameters including $filter, $orderby, $top, $skip, $count, $expand,
      and $select. A 30-day rolling monthly transfer limit of 12 TB applies under the
      free tier, with bandwidth per connection capped at 20 MB/s.
    humanURL: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/OData.html
    baseURL: https://catalogue.dataspace.copernicus.eu/odata/v1
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Copernicus
      - Sentinel
      - OData
      - Catalogue
      - Product Download
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/OData.html

  - aid: esa:copernicus-stac
    name: Copernicus Data Space STAC Catalogue API
    description: >-
      SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogue (STAC) implementation for the Copernicus Data Space
      Ecosystem. Provides standardised metadata discovery for Earth Observation data
      including Sentinel missions. Follows the open STAC specification to enable
      interoperable access to asset-level metadata with spatial information, temporal
      coverage, and data specifications. Connects to the same underlying database as
      the OData interface, ensuring consistency across access methods.
    humanURL: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/STAC.html
    baseURL: https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Copernicus
      - STAC
      - Catalogue
      - Geospatial
      - Sentinel
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/STAC.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/esa-copernicus-stac-openapi.json

  - aid: esa:copernicus-sentinel-hub
    name: Copernicus Sentinel Hub API
    description: >-
      RESTful API interface providing access to various satellite imagery archives
      including raw data, rendered images, and statistical analysis without requiring
      local data downloads. Supports configurable processing expressions, multi-temporal
      analysis, and cloud-optimised access. Free tier allows 10,000 requests and 10,000
      processing units per month, with a rate limit of 300 requests/minute and 300
      processing units/minute.
    humanURL: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/SentinelHub.html
    baseURL: https://sh.dataspace.copernicus.eu
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Sentinel
      - Satellite Imagery
      - Processing
      - Copernicus
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/SentinelHub.html

  - aid: esa:copernicus-openeo
    name: Copernicus openEO API
    description: >-
      Standardised openEO interface enabling programmatic access and cloud processing of
      Earth observation datasets without local data management. Supports automatic scaling
      on cloud infrastructure. The free tier provides 10,000 credits per user per month,
      a rate limit of 12 requests/minute (1 per 5 seconds), and a maximum of 2
      concurrent API requests.
    humanURL: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/analyse/apis/openeo-api
    baseURL: https://openeo.dataspace.copernicus.eu
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Copernicus
      - openEO
      - Processing
      - Cloud
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/analyse/apis/openeo-api

  - aid: esa:copernicus-ogc
    name: Copernicus OGC API (WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS)
    description: >-
      OGC-compliant web services providing seamless satellite data access through
      standard GIS applications. Exposes WMS (Web Map Service), WMTS (Web Map Tile
      Service), WFS (Web Feature Service), and WCS (Web Coverage Service) endpoints for
      Copernicus mission data. Suitable for direct integration into GIS tools without
      downloading or local data processing.
    humanURL: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/SentinelHub/OGC.html
    baseURL: https://services.sentinel-hub.com/ogc
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - OGC
      - WMS
      - WFS
      - WCS
      - GIS
      - Copernicus
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/SentinelHub/OGC.html

  - aid: esa:copernicus-on-demand-processing
    name: Copernicus On-Demand Processing (ODP) API
    description: >-
      Serverless computation service for generating higher-level products from archived
      lower-level Copernicus data using ESA processors. Supports single-item and batch
      processing workflows including CARD-BS (Backscatter) and CARD-COH6/12 (Coherence)
      products from Sentinel-1 SAR data.
    humanURL: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/On-Demand%20Production%20API.html
    baseURL: https://odp.dataspace.copernicus.eu
    tags:
      - Earth Observation
      - Copernicus
      - Sentinel-1
      - SAR
      - Processing
      - On-Demand
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/APIs/On-Demand%20Production%20API.html

  - aid: esa:space-weather-hapi
    name: ESA Space Weather HAPI Server
    description: >-
      Heliophysics Application Programmer's Interface (HAPI) server providing access to
      ESA Space Weather Service Network data. Implements the COSPAR-recommended HAPI
      standard for streaming heliophysics time-series data. Endpoints include catalog
      (dataset listing), info (parameter definitions), data (time-range streaming),
      capabilities, and about. Authentication requires an ESA SSO M2M client-id/secret
      pair exchanged for a short-lived Bearer token (expires 300 seconds) via
      https://sso.s2p.esa.int/realms/swe/protocol/openid-connect/token.
    humanURL: https://swe.ssa.esa.int/swe-hapi-server
    baseURL: https://swe.ssa.esa.int/hapi
    tags:
      - Space Weather
      - Heliophysics
      - HAPI
      - Solar
      - Time Series
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://swe.ssa.esa.int/swe-hapi-server

  - aid: esa:gaia-tap
    name: ESA Gaia Archive TAP API
    description: >-
      Table Access Protocol (TAP) service for the ESA Gaia stellar catalogue, the most
      precise astrometric survey of the Milky Way. Enables ADQL (Astronomical Data Query
      Language) queries against Gaia Data Releases covering positions, parallaxes, proper
      motions, photometry, and radial velocities for over a billion stars. Accessible
      programmatically via the astroquery Python library.
    humanURL: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access
    baseURL: https://gea.esac.esa.int/tap-server/tap
    tags:
      - Astronomy
      - Gaia
      - TAP
      - Stellar Catalogue
      - Astrometry
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access

  - aid: esa:esasky-legacy-tap
    name: ESASky Legacy TAP Service
    description: >-
      IVOA Table Access Protocol (TAP) service providing access to ESA legacy mission
      archives including Hipparcos (~118,000 stars with milliarcsecond accuracy, 42 data
      products across 59 tables), Cos-B gamma-ray observations (252 high-level products
      across six energy ranges), and CoRoT exoplanet/asteroseismology data (177,382
      faint-star observations and 171 bright-star light curves). Supports ADQL queries
      and DataLink services.
    humanURL: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/legacy-tap-esa
    baseURL: http://esaskylegacy.esac.esa.int/esasky-legacy-sl-tap/tap
    tags:
      - Astronomy
      - TAP
      - Hipparcos
      - CoRoT
      - Gaia
      - Legacy Archives
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/legacy-tap-esa

  - aid: esa:datalabs-graphql
    name: ESA Datalabs GraphQL API
    description: >-
      GraphQL API for managing ESA Datalabs computational environments, data pipelines,
      data volumes, and user access controls. Provides 50+ query operations (datalab
      management, pipeline runs, user/role management, data centres) and 80+ mutations
      (build/create/destroy datalabs, access grants, pipeline execution, workspace
      management), plus 4 subscription endpoints for real-time monitoring of build
      progress and pipeline runs. Requires an ESA Cosmos CAS LDAP account with a
      Bearer token.
    humanURL: https://datalabs.esa.int/api-docs/
    baseURL: https://datalabs.esa.int/graphql
    tags:
      - GraphQL
      - Data Labs
      - Pipelines
      - Scientific Computing
      - ESA
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://datalabs.esa.int/api-docs/

  - aid: esa:cci-esgf
    name: ESA CCI ESGF RESTful API
    description: >-
      Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) RESTful API providing access to ESA Climate
      Change Initiative (CCI) observational products aligned with CMIP climate model
      data through the Obs4MIPs framework. Enables search and retrieval of long-term
      satellite-derived Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) spanning sea level, sea ice,
      soil moisture, land cover, and more.
    humanURL: https://climate.esa.int/en/data/apis/
    baseURL: https://esgf.ceda.ac.uk/esg-search/search
    tags:
      - Climate
      - CCI
      - ESGF
      - Essential Climate Variables
      - Earth Observation
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://climate.esa.int/en/data/apis/

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.esa.int/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://documentation.dataspace.copernicus.eu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/esa
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-space-agency
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/esa-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/esa-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/esa-finops.yml
  - type: JSONLd
    url: json-ld/esa-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]