
NASA
· #149 most-usedNASA data in your agent — from asteroids to Earth imagery
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.
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.
What your NASA agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
NASA × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
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.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales18 min / weekManual 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 Agent0 minAgent pulls live NASA data on demandThe agent retrieves current APOD or Neo-Feed data in seconds and formats it as a prospect-ready briefing before the call starts.
- Marketing13 min / weekDaily 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 Agent0 minAgent queues APOD content automaticallyThe agent fetches each day's APOD image and explanation, drafts a caption, and drops it into the content queue — zero manual steps.
- Customer Support18 min / weekSpace-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 Agent0 minAgent retrieves DONKI data on ticket arrivalWhen a ticket mentions satellite disruption, the agent queries the relevant DONKI endpoints and attaches a formatted event summary before the rep responds.
- Human Resources7 min / weekScience 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 Agent0 minAgent sources NASA visuals on requestThe agent retrieves the most recent APOD or a specific Earth imagery tile, ready to embed in onboarding decks or internal newsletters instantly.
- Finance13 min / weekQuarterly 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 Agent0 minAgent exports DONKI event history automaticallyThe 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.
- Operations25 min / weekManual 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 Agent0 minAgent retrieves imagery for new coordinates instantlyWhen 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.
- Legal6 min / weekEvent 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 Agent0 minAgent logs DONKI events to the legal recordEach time DONKI issues a storm or flare notification, the agent appends a timestamped entry to the legal event log without any manual retrieval.
Calculate what your team saves
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.
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.
Find NASA in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.
Actionist opens the NASA MCP server authorisation page. Confirm the read permissions for imagery, asteroid, and space-weather endpoints, then click Allow.
Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.
15 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
7 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with NASA
Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.
Fetches YouTube transcripts and searches channels — useful for pulling NASA TV or educational space-content transcripts into an agent workflow.
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 that work with NASA
Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.
Official MCP server with a visual UI for browsing and retrieving NASA image library assets directly within an agent session.
Combines NASA FIRMS fire data with OpenWeatherMap and Google Earth Engine to detect and monitor active wildfires globally — ideal alongside NASA Earth Imagery workflows.
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.