generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.3dr.com/ (200), https://docs.3dr.com/ (200), https://3dr.wiki/sitemap-0.xml
  (200), DNS + HTTP probes of the legacy 3D Robotics hosts, npm/PyPI registry metadata,
  https://github.com/3drobotics (200) — all checked 2026-09-05
summary: >-
  3DR publishes no API, and therefore no API lifecycle policy. What this file
  records instead is the one lifecycle fact that matters for a catalog reader:
  the web API 3D Robotics did once publish is decommissioned, and the corporate
  entity behind it is not the entity trading as 3DR today.
api_versioning:
  scheme: null
  status: not-applicable
  note: No public web API exists on any 3DR host; nothing to version.
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  note: >-
    No deprecation or Sunset/Deprecation (RFC 8594) policy is published. No
    `Deprecation` pointer is wired in apis.yml, because there is no policy to
    point at.
status_page:
  published: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    No status page found on 3dr.com, docs.3dr.com, 3dr.wiki or store.3dr.com, and
    no status subdomain resolves. No `StatusPage` pointer is wired.
sla:
  published: false
  note: >-
    The published commitments are hardware commercial terms — lead times, RMA /
    returns, reseller and purchase-order process — not a service-level agreement.
    See https://docs.3dr.com/orders-and-shipping/lead-times and
    https://docs.3dr.com/orders-and-shipping/rma.
hardware_lifecycle:
  published: true
  note: >-
    The one lifecycle surface 3DR does publish is for HARDWARE: the knowledge base
    carries an explicit "Discontinued" section under GNSS (Classic M8N IST8310,
    MosaicX5), which is a genuine, dated end-of-life signal for products rather
    than for an API.
  evidence:
  - url: https://3dr.wiki/gps/discontinued/mosaicx5/
    status: 200
  - url: https://3dr.wiki/gps/discontinued/classic-m8n-ist8310/
    status: 200
entity_discontinuity:
  stated_by_provider: true
  quote: >-
    "Please note that 3DR Inc was a distinct entity before the year 2023. As a
    result, any products that were sold prior to 2023 under the previous company
    name are not covered by our present terms of responsibility or warranty. We
    kindly request your understanding that our business is not providing any
    support for sold products under the 3DR label prior to 2023."
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.3dr.com/
    status: 200
retired_surfaces:
- name: DroneKit Cloud / DroneShare web API
  operator: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  status: decommissioned
  contract_format: Swagger (swagger-ui)
  last_known_contract_url: http://api.3drobotics.com/swagger-ui/
  evidence:
  - fact: >-
      The npm package `dronekit@1.0.1`, published 2015-06-02 by maintainer
      tim@3drobotics.com, describes itself as "Tests the
      http://www.droneshare.com/ APIs. See http://api.3drobotics.com/swagger-ui/".
      This is first-party evidence that the API and its Swagger description
      existed.
    url: https://registry.npmjs.org/dronekit
    status: 200
  - fact: 'api.3drobotics.com no longer resolves — DNS answer status NXDOMAIN.'
    url: https://api.3drobotics.com/
    status: 0
  - fact: 'www.droneshare.com no longer resolves.'
    url: https://www.droneshare.com/
    status: 0
  - fact: >-
      The Internet Archive holds a 2015-11-15 capture of the swagger-ui, which is
      how the surface is confirmed to have been real. It is NOT saved into this
      repo: an archived document is not a contract the provider serves today, and
      saving it would credit 3DR with a published API it retired.
    url: http://web.archive.org/web/20151115075013/http://api.3drobotics.com:80/swagger-ui/
    status: 200
- name: 3drobotics.com corporate domain
  operator: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  status: transferred
  note: >-
    The original corporate domain now redirects off-brand: https://3drobotics.com/
    301s to https://www.kittyhawk.aero/, a different company. Any pre-2023 3DR
    link into 3drobotics.com is therefore not a 3DR surface any more.
  evidence:
  - url: https://3drobotics.com/
    status: 200
    resolved_to: https://www.kittyhawk.aero/
- name: DroneKit SDKs (Python / Android / JS)
  operator: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  status: unmaintained
  note: >-
    dronekit.io still serves the original DroneKit developer site (HTTP 200,
    "Copyright © 2015"), and github.com/dronekit still hosts the source, but the
    last PyPI release is 2.9.2 on 2019-03-18 and the 3D Robotics fork at
    github.com/3drobotics/dronekit-python carries GitHub's "Public archive"
    badge (last pushed 2017). See packages/3d-robotics-packages.yml.
  evidence:
  - url: https://dronekit.io/
    status: 200
  - url: https://pypi.org/pypi/dronekit/json
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/3drobotics
    status: 200