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Mrd is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. 43 installs a week from npm. It exposes 14 tools. Last commit 14 Sep 2026.

Spacecraft component specs from vendor datasheets: search, digests, facts, gaps, budgets, bus design

Installs per day peak 15 · avg 4 · -25% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 70 days of history · worst day 99%
70 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
14
Tools
read from the server
183 ms
Response time
average over 24h
43
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 36

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 31 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

26 Sep 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for4 times that day find_suppliers, get_component_specs, match_components
26 Sep a tool appeared find_alternatives
26 Sep a tool description was rewritten match_components
24 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for4 times that day get_component_specs, match_components
24 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten3 times that day get_component_specs, match_components
24 Sep 2 tools appeared find_suppliers, selection_guide
23 Sep 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for ask_datasheet, find_data_gaps, get_component_specs and 2 more
22 Sep a tool appeared ask_console
22 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for match_components
21 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_component_specs, match_components
and 16 more, back to 31 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Mrd every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mrd --transport http https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mrd]
url = "https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mrd": {
      "url": "https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mrd": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 14

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

ask
ask_console
Plain-language engineering question over the whole platform, answered by platform rules without any external model: selection by requirements, values of a property across a class, companies by capability and country, launch windows, term definitions. Returns a short answer plus data blocks (candidates A/B/C, values, companies, launches). Use when the question does not map cleanly onto one structured tool.
ask_datasheet
Ask a product datasheet a question and get the closest excerpts with page numbers (pre-indexed text), or scan ALL datasheets of a category for an exact term (term + category) and get the exact list of products mentioning it with an excerpt each.
datasheet
get_datasheet_digest
Facts machine-read from a product datasheet, by section (identity, performance, electrical, interfaces, mechanical, thermal, environmental, qualification, lifetime, options, compliance, commercial). Each fact carries unit, condition, the page and a verbatim quote it was verified against (confidence L0) plus a link into the PDF. Use it for what the typed layer does not hold: connectors, protocols, survival temperature, vibration, radiation, heritage, options, export control, lead time. Pass product_id from match_components or a product name.
search_datasheet_facts
One fact key across a whole category: which products state it in their datasheets and what value — e.g. connector, data_interface, protocol, survival_temperature, tid_tolerance, flight_heritage, trl, export_control, lead_time, price, design_life. One row per product with page and quote. Reports coverage (how many products of the category have a digested datasheet).
alternatives
find_alternatives
Alternatives / second sources / replacements for ONE product: requirements are derived from its own published values (key fields of its class — higher-is-better at least 80 %, lower-is-better at most 120 %, same interface, band or type) and its class is searched without it. Returns the derived requirements, fields not compared, and groups A (meets all), B (fails one), C (data missing). Use when a part has a long lead time, is discontinued or export-restricted. Equal figures do not make a drop-in replacement — interfaces must be confirmed with the manufacturer.
build
build_budget
Engineering budget for a component stack: pass product ids (from the other tools) and your bus voltage, get total mass, total steady-state power, per-item data interfaces, voltage-compatibility verdicts and an honest list of what could NOT be counted because the vendor does not publish it. Use it to assemble and sanity-check a subsystem, e.g. 3-4 reaction wheels for an ADCS.
component
get_component_specs
The typed layer of a category, 10 products per call (page with offset, narrow with ids and keys) — every item with every value (number, canonical unit, bound, measurement condition, datasheet source page, confidence L0/L1) plus the property dictionary grouped by interface port (perf/power/data/mech/thermal/env/supply) — for arbitrary comparison, budgeting or trade studies on your side.
data
find_data_gaps
What is missing for a product, a company or a category and where to get it: in_digest (already read from the datasheet — value, page), in_datasheet_text (the datasheet mentions it — page, excerpt), not_in_datasheet (ask the vendor), no_datasheet (ask the vendor for a datasheet). For vendors: what to publish; for buyers: what to ask.
design
design_stack
Assemble a whole spacecraft bus from a plain-language task: the service plans the subsystems, matches every item deterministically against the stated requirements, computes the mass/power budget and writes an evidence-bound rationale. Pass fixed = product ids you have already chosen (from match_components or get_datasheet_digest): they stay in their subsystems, are checked against the requirements (selected.fixed, fixed_verdict, fixed_fails) and the rest is assembled around them. LLM-backed and rate-limited (6/min, 30/h anonymous).
explain
explain_properties
What every property of a product category means: definition, how it is measured and what goes into the measurement condition, how to use it when selecting, what it is commonly confused with, typical range and related properties. Call this before interpreting specs of an unfamiliar category.
fit
check_fit
Check whether a set of products docks together, by the interface template of each product type: deployer and CubeSat structure form factor and satellite mass, separation system and spacecraft mass, solar panel size and EPS solar input (Voc/Vmp, power), battery and EPS, EPS output rails or the unregulated bus against each unit supply range, EPS charge current against the battery limit, satellite envelope against the deployer envelope for its form factor, on-board computer against unit data interfaces, board stack format, free volume, radio against antenna and ground station (frequency, band, connector, protocol and modulation), antenna against ground station polarization, GNSS receiver signals against the GNSS antenna band, magnetorquer coil current against the driver channel, PPU output power against the electric thruster, array drive against panel power, propulsion propellant against tank media, steady power budget. Verdicts fits / conflict / check / unknown, plus ask_vendor: exactly which values are missing to decide.
match
match_components
Reverse search over a typed spec layer: pass a category and engineering requirements, get every catalogued item grouped as A (meets all stated requirements), B (fails a named requirement, both figures quoted) or C (could fit, data missing). Verdicts cite the datasheet page. Omit parameters you do not care about. Categories: reaction-wheels, star-trackers, obc-computers, batteries, radios, solar-panels, propulsion, sun-sensors, magnetometers, magnetorquers, imus-gyros, gnss-receivers, eps, deployers, thermal, antennas, sdr-modems, cameras, structures, platforms, ground-stations, sadm, tanks-valves, separation-systems, pointing-mechanisms, test-facilities (environmental test labs — items are companies: test, shaker_min_kn, tvac_min_m, specimen_min_kg, emc_min_m). The answer is compact: group A in full (up to 25), groups B and C — the first 10 with the reason, plus counts and the fields most often unpublished in C; page with group and offset.
selection
selection_guide
How to choose a product of one category, from the catalogue data only: the decisive parameters with real ranges (middle half and full range), which side is better, how many products publish each, what to ask the vendor, and ready match queries. category = "cubesat" gives the list of subsystems a CubeSat is built from with catalogue counts.
suppliers
find_suppliers
Companies whose PRODUCTS meet engineering requirements in one category — "who makes platforms for GEO", "Chinese companies making star trackers better than 10 arcsec", "suppliers of flight-proven reaction wheels". Pass category, optional country and any requirement parameter of match_components (same names and units). Returns companies with their matching products, and how many more companies may fit because the decisive value is not published.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp streamable-http answering 212 ms 8 min ago

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Mrd — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Mrd do?
It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_console, ask_datasheet, build_budget, check_fit, design_stack, explain_properties and 8 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is Mrd mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around datasheet and ask. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Mrd working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 183 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Mrd?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Mrd need an API key?
No. Mrd completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Mrd?
It answers our handshake in 183 ms on average, which is faster than 74% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Mrd?
The npm package @newspacemarket/mrd-mcp was installed 43 times in the last week. Week over week that is -25%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Mrd open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at newspacemarket.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.