NASA
NASA's Open APIs: Astronomy Picture of the Day, near-Earth asteroids, DONKI space weather, and the Image and Video Library.
OCNORA ships 8 typed NASA operations. Each node has a schema-driven form, input and output tables beside its settings, and is pre-flighted by Workflow Health before your first real run. Endpoints not covered by a typed node are called at https://api.nasa.gov through the HTTP node with the same credential.
Before you connect NASA
- Authentication
- API key
- Credential
- the API key, or {"api_key": "…"}
- Connection test
- Available: the stored credential can be checked against the provider when you add it. This is not a record that a test was run or passed.
What you can do with NASA
Operations, grouped by what they do to your data.
A sample NASA workflow
- 1A core triggerStart the run from a chat, form, manual, schedule, webhook, workflow trigger — no NASA trigger is needed.
- 2Get Media Assetnasa.get_media_assetList every file that makes up one Image and Video Library asset.
- 3Astronomy Picture of the Daynasa.apodRead the Astronomy Picture of the Day and its explanation.
An outline built from this provider’s node contracts, not a recorded run. Each step’s output fields are available to the next in the field picker.
Every node below has a reference page: what it does, the connection it needs, its config fields with types, constraints and examples, and the shapes it emits.
Operations 8
- Astronomy Picture of the DayRead the Astronomy Picture of the Day and its explanation.nasa.apod
- Space Weather EventsRead one DONKI space-weather event service for a date range.nasa.donki_events
- Space Weather NotificationsRead the Space Weather Research Center's notification messages.nasa.donki_notifications
- Get Media AssetList every file that makes up one Image and Video Library asset.nasa.get_media_asset
- Browse AsteroidsPage through the whole NeoWs near-Earth asteroid data set.nasa.neo_browse
- Asteroid FeedList near-Earth asteroids by their closest approach date.nasa.neo_feed
- Asteroid LookupRead one asteroid's full NeoWs record by its JPL SPK-ID.nasa.neo_lookup
- Search Image and Video LibrarySearch the NASA Image and Video Library at images.nasa.gov.nasa.search_media
NASA questions
- How does OCNORA authenticate with NASA?
- With a stored API key credential, shaped the API key, or {"api_key": "…"}. A connection test can check it when you add it.
- What can I automate with NASA?
- 8 typed operations, each with a reference page listing its config fields and the shapes it emits.
- What if the NASA operation I need is not listed?
- Call https://api.nasa.gov from the HTTP node with the same credential, or describe the step to the AI builder, which asks our team for a typed node when one is missing.
- Are there templates that use NASA?
- Not yet. Start from a blank workflow, or describe the workflow to Build with AI.
- How are NASA calls controlled?
- Every call and every run step is audited, runs count against the execution budget, and Workflow Health pre-flights the workflow when you save it.
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See your first NASA workflow run.
Book a technical demo. We add the connection, pick a template or describe the workflow to Build with AI, and Workflow Health checks it before it runs.