NASA

NASA

· #149 most-used

NASA data in your agent — from asteroids to Earth imagery

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NASA's open APIs expose the agency's full scientific data catalogue: daily astronomy imagery, real-time space-weather events from DONKI, near-Earth asteroid tracking, and satellite Earth observation. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can monitor solar flares, retrieve Landsat imagery for any coordinates, track asteroid close approaches, and route NASA notifications to the right team — all in plain English, with no portal access required.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of logging into the NASA portal, selecting date ranges, downloading data, and reformatting it for downstream tools — every query runs on schedule or on trigger.

Schedule

What your NASA agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

NASA × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~60 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

Space-alert triage: from inbox to resolved in minutes

A client emails asking whether the weekend's solar flare will affect their satellite uplink. The agent reads the message, queries NASA's DONKI flare data to get the classification and peak time, cross-references the DONKI notifications feed for any issued advisories, posts a plain-English technical summary to the shared Slack thread, and books a 15-minute follow-up call on Google Calendar — all before a human has even opened the email.

~10 hrs / week

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·A customer email arrives mentioning space weather, satellite disruption, or a NASA event
Result
Retrieve DONKI notifications data for active advisoriesPost technical summary and advisory status to customer Slack threadCreate follow-up call event with customer and account manager
The win
Saved per run
1 hrs
Runs / week
~10×
Zero manual research — clients get accurate DONKI-backed answers in under 5 minutes
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Manual NASA demo prep

    Sales reps spend 18 minutes per prospect session manually pulling asteroid or APOD data from nasa.gov to illustrate use cases during calls.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent pulls live NASA data on demand

    The agent retrieves current APOD or Neo-Feed data in seconds and formats it as a prospect-ready briefing before the call starts.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    Daily APOD content sourcing

    The content team manually visits APOD each morning, downloads the image, writes a caption, and loads it into the scheduling tool — 13 minutes a day.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent queues APOD content automatically

    The agent fetches each day's APOD image and explanation, drafts a caption, and drops it into the content queue — zero manual steps.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Space-weather incident research

    Support agents manually search DONKI for flare and CME records each time a client asks whether a solar event affected their satellite uplink.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent retrieves DONKI data on ticket arrival

    When a ticket mentions satellite disruption, the agent queries the relevant DONKI endpoints and attaches a formatted event summary before the rep responds.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Science content for onboarding

    HR staff manually find and format NASA imagery or APOD content for science-adjacent onboarding materials and team culture posts — 7 minutes per use.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent sources NASA visuals on request

    The agent retrieves the most recent APOD or a specific Earth imagery tile, ready to embed in onboarding decks or internal newsletters instantly.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    Quarterly space-weather risk log

    Finance teams manually export DONKI notification histories for quarterly insurance or compliance reports, spending 13 minutes per quarter building the event log.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent exports DONKI event history automatically

    The agent pulls 90 days of DONKI notifications and high-speed stream records, formats the log, and delivers it to the insurer's document folder without human intervention.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Manual satellite imagery retrieval

    Operations staff manually visit NASA's Earth imagery portal, enter coordinates, and download Landsat tiles for monitored sites — 25 minutes per batch.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent retrieves imagery for new coordinates instantly

    When a new monitoring site is added to the tracking sheet, the agent fetches the latest Landsat tile and asset count and logs both in under 2 minutes.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Event documentation for liability

    Legal teams manually document space-weather events for liability filings when satellite operators claim force-majeure due to solar activity — 6 minutes per event.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent logs DONKI events to the legal record

    Each time DONKI issues a storm or flare notification, the agent appends a timestamped entry to the legal event log without any manual retrieval.

+ 100s of other NASA automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 people
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on NASA's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug NASA into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path. The nasa-images MCP server connects Actionist directly to NASA's imagery and data APIs through a single authorisation step — no tokens to generate or rotate, and every action stays in sync with NASA's live feeds.

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Open the Apps tab

Find NASA in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in NASA

Actionist opens the NASA MCP server authorisation page. Confirm the read permissions for imagery, asteroid, and space-weather endpoints, then click Allow.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with NASA

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

Transcriptapi

Fetches YouTube transcripts and searches channels — useful for pulling NASA TV or educational space-content transcripts into an agent workflow.

Youtube Full

Complete YouTube toolkit for transcripts, search, and channel data — pair with NASA APOD to find and summarise related space-science video content automatically.

MCP servers

MCP servers that work with NASA

Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.

nasa-images
Official

Official MCP server with a visual UI for browsing and retrieving NASA image library assets directly within an agent session.

aliafsahnoudeh/wildfire-mcp-server

Combines NASA FIRMS fire data with OpenWeatherMap and Google Earth Engine to detect and monitor active wildfires globally — ideal alongside NASA Earth Imagery workflows.

Meteors
Official

Official MCP server for NASA fireball event data, near-Earth asteroid records, and close-approach tables — a natural complement to Actionist's Neo-Feed and Neo-Lookup actions.

FAQs

Questions about NASA + Actionist

How do I connect NASA to Actionist?
In the Apps tab, find NASA and click Connect. The MCP path is selected by default — Actionist authorises against the nasa-images MCP server and verifies the connection with a read-only call. If you prefer direct API access, switch to the API key method, paste your key from api.nasa.gov, and click Test connection. Either path takes under 2 minutes.
Do I need a special API key, or is there a free tier?
NASA offers a free public API key for all open-data endpoints including APOD, Neo-Feed, DONKI, and Earth Imagery. Register at api.nasa.gov with your name and email and receive a key immediately. The free tier allows 1,000 requests per hour — enough for most automated agent workflows. Rate-limit headers are included in every response so the agent can back off if needed.
Which NASA data sources does Actionist expose?
Actionist surfaces 15 NASA actions across five data domains: Astronomy Picture of the Day, Asteroid Near-Earth Object tracking (Neo-Feed, Neo-Lookup, Neo-Browse), the full DONKI space-weather catalogue (CME, solar flares, SEP events, magnetopause crossings, radiation belt enhancements, high-speed streams, WSA+Enlil simulations, notifications), and Landsat Earth Imagery and Asset endpoints. Every action maps to a documented NASA open-data API.
What are the most common Actionist workflows using NASA?
The four most common patterns are: (1) daily APOD retrieval piped into a content calendar or newsletter, (2) Neo-Feed monitoring that alerts teams when asteroids larger than a threshold diameter approach within 7 days, (3) DONKI space-weather digests posted to Slack on a schedule or on trigger, and (4) Earth Imagery retrieval for specific coordinates triggered whenever a new monitoring site is added to a tracking sheet.
Can I avoid hitting the 1,000-request-per-hour rate limit in automated workflows?
Yes — structure workflows to batch requests rather than poll continuously. For DONKI data, retrieve a date-range window once per scheduled run rather than checking per event. For Neo-Feed, a single weekly query covers 7 days of asteroid approaches. Actionist's scheduler lets you set cadences (daily, weekly) that naturally stay within the free tier's hourly cap. If you need higher throughput, NASA's DEMO_KEY has the same limit, but enterprise agreements are available at api.nasa.gov.
How do NASA triggers work when no events have been published yet?
NASA triggers are polling-based: Actionist queries the relevant endpoint on your chosen schedule and only fires downstream steps when new records appear since the last successful run. If DONKI returns no new flare events since the previous check, the trigger exits cleanly without running the workflow. This means you never get phantom runs — only real new data moves through the pipeline.
Can the agent combine NASA data with other apps in the same workflow?
Yes — NASA actions are full steps in any multi-app workflow. Common pairings: NASA Neo-Feed → Slack alert, NASA APOD → HubSpot content calendar, NASA DONKI notifications → Google Sheets incident log, NASA Earth Imagery → Notion site monitoring page. The agent treats NASA data as structured JSON it can filter, format, and route to any connected app without custom code.
What happens if the NASA API is temporarily unavailable?
Actionist's workflow engine retries failed NASA API calls up to three times with exponential back-off before marking the run as failed. You receive a failure notification with the error code and endpoint that failed. For scheduled workflows, the next run picks up where the previous one left off using the last successful timestamp — so no data window is silently skipped when NASA's endpoints recover.