name: SpaceX Community API Domain Vocabulary
provider: SpaceX (Community API)
providerId: spacex
description: Tag-derived vocabulary for the r-spacex/SpaceX-API REST surface; sourced from openapi/ tags and the underlying mongoose models.
terms:
  - term: Launches
    description: Past, upcoming, latest, and next launches; the central event resource keyed by flight_number and date_utc.
  - term: Rockets
    description: Rocket version records (Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship) including stages, engines, mass, and payload weights.
  - term: Capsules
    description: Serialized Dragon capsule fleet (Dragon 1.0, 1.1, 2.0) with status, reuse count, water_landings, and land_landings.
  - term: Cores
    description: Serialized Falcon first-stage cores with block number, status, reuse count, RTLS / ASDS landing attempts and successes.
  - term: Crew
    description: SpaceX Dragon crew members (NASA, ESA, Axiom, etc.) keyed by name with launches array.
  - term: Dragons
    description: Dragon capsule versions — engineering specs (dry mass, heat shield, payload mass, trunk volume).
  - term: Payloads
    description: Launch payloads — customers, manufacturers, nationalities, mass, orbit class, and orbital elements.
  - term: Ships
    description: Ships in the SpaceX fleet — droneships, recovery, support — with AIS/MMSI/IMO identifiers and last-known position.
  - term: Launchpads
    description: Active and historical launchpads with locality, region, latitude/longitude, and launch_attempts / launch_successes counts.
  - term: Landpads
    description: Landing pads and droneship platforms with landing_attempts / landing_successes and type (RTLS / ASDS).
  - term: Starlink
    description: Starlink satellite catalog with Space-Track Orbit Mean Elements Message fields and current lat/lon/height/velocity.
  - term: Roadster
    description: Tesla Roadster ephemeris launched on Falcon Heavy demo; orbital elements and Earth/Mars distances (single document).
  - term: Company
    description: SpaceX company info document (founder, employees, valuation, headquarters, leadership).
  - term: History
    description: Significant SpaceX historical events keyed by event_date_utc with article links.
  - term: Query
    description: POST /{resource}/query mongoose-paginate-v2 endpoint accepting MongoDB find() body with options for select/sort/limit/page/populate.
  - term: Populate
    description: mongoose-paginate populate option that hydrates UUID references inline with the referenced document (e.g. launches.payloads -> Payload).
  - term: Admin
    description: Destructive create / update / delete routes gated by the `spacex-key` header; not used by typical read-only clients.
  - term: Maintenance-Only
    description: Project status as of 2024 — new launches, payloads, crew, and starlink records are not being added; data remains historical.