SpaceX Ruby Client

A Ruby library that consumes the SpaceX API.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Quick Start
  • Launches
  • Rockets
  • Starlink
• Available Resources
• Contributing
• Copyright

Installation

Add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'spacex'

Then run bundle install.

Quick Start

Launches

# Get the latest launch
launch = SPACEX::Launches.latest
launch.name        # "Starlink 6-14"
launch.date_utc    # "2023-09-08T02:47:00.000Z"
launch.success     # true
launch.details     # "..."

# Get upcoming launches
upcoming = SPACEX::Launches.upcoming
upcoming.first.name     # "Starlink 7-1"
upcoming.first.date_utc # "2024-01-15T00:00:00.000Z"

Also available: SPACEX::Launches.info, SPACEX::Launches.next, SPACEX::Launches.past.

Rockets

# Get all rockets
rockets = SPACEX::Rockets.info
rockets.first.name      # "Falcon 1"
rockets.first.active    # false

# Get a specific rocket by ID
falcon9 = SPACEX::Rockets.info('5e9d0d95eda69973a809d1ec')
falcon9.name            # "Falcon 9"
falcon9.active          # true
falcon9.cost_per_launch # 50_000_000

Starlink

# Get all Starlink satellites
satellites = SPACEX::Starlink.info
satellites.first.latitude     # 53.0   (illustrative — live data will differ)
satellites.first.longitude    # -94.0
satellites.first.height_km    # 550.6
satellites.first.velocity_kms # 7.66

Available Resources

All resources live under the SPACEX:: namespace and support .info and .info('id').

Resource	Notes
SPACEX::Capsules
SPACEX::Company	Single object — .info only
SPACEX::Cores
SPACEX::Crew
SPACEX::Dragons
SPACEX::History
SPACEX::Landpads
SPACEX::Launches	Also: .latest, .next, .past, .upcoming
SPACEX::Launchpads
SPACEX::Payloads
SPACEX::Roadster	Single object — .info only
SPACEX::Rockets
SPACEX::Ships
SPACEX::Starlink

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

List of awesome people that already helped this project.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2018, Rodolfo Bandeira and Contributors.

MIT License, see LICENSE for details.