juliensimon/space-missions

Space Missions Database

Part of the Orbital Mechanics Datasets collection on Hugging Face.

Comprehensive database of 25,137 space missions — both crewed and uncrewed — sourced from Wikidata.

Dataset description

This dataset draws on Wikidata's structured knowledge base using three entity types: space missions (Q2133344), crewed spaceflights (Q1248784), and uncrewed spaceflights (Q12795915). It is maintained by the WikiProject Spaceflight community and updated as new missions are flown and documented.

Note: Wikidata coverage is uneven — most entries have only a name and Wikidata ID. Columns with <5% data coverage are automatically dropped during pipeline processing.

Schema

Column	Type	Description
wikidata_id	string	Wikidata entity ID (e.g. Q183294)
name	string	Mission name
operator	string	Operating agency or organization (~13% coverage)

Additional columns (launch_date, destination, etc.) appear when Wikidata coverage exceeds 5%.

Quick stats

• 25,137 total missions in the database
• Top operators: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (202), Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (149), Airports Authority of India (109), Soviet space program (93), Roscosmos State Corporation (85)

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/space-missions", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()

# Missions by operator
if "operator" in df.columns:
    print(df["operator"].value_counts().head(10))

# List all missions
print(df[["name", "wikidata_id"]].head(20))

Data source

Wikidata SPARQL endpoint. Missions identified via:

• Q2133344 (space mission, including subclasses)
• Q1248784 (crewed spaceflight)
• Q12795915 (uncrewed spaceflight)

Data is community-curated by WikiProject Spaceflight.

Update schedule

Quarterly (January, April, July, October).

Related datasets

• astronaut-database -- Every person who has traveled to space
• launch-log -- McDowell orbital launch log
• spacecraft-database -- Spacecraft catalog
• deep-space-probes -- Deep space probe trajectories

Pipeline

Source code: juliensimon/space-datasets

Support

If you find this dataset useful, please give it a ❤️ on the dataset page and share feedback in the Community tab! Also consider giving a ⭐️ to the space-datasets repo.

Citation

@dataset{space_missions,
  author = {Simon, Julien},
  title = {Space Missions Database},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/space-missions},
  note = {Sourced from Wikidata (CC0)}
}

License

CC0-1.0 (Wikidata content is public domain)