NASA 3D Resources is GitHub-hosted, not a dedicated API: reading it means the standard unauthenticated GitHub REST budget (60/hour) applies, consumed per file/folder listing
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## Probes ``` GET https://api.github.com/repos/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources GET https://api.github.com/repos/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources/contents/ ``` ## Observed Both HTTP 200, `server: github.com`. Repo metadata call: `x-ratelimit-limit: 60`, `x-ratelimit-remaining: 56`, `x-ratelimit-used: 4` (already partway consumed by the session's prior calls this lane). Contents listing: `x-ratelimit-remaining: 55`, `x-ratelimit-used: 5` — confirms each call (repo info, directory listing) decrements the SAME shared 60/hour unauthenticated bucket keyed to the calling IP, not to the repo. Repo `last-modified: Sun, 04 Oct 2026` — actively maintained. No dedicated "NASA 3D API" exists; `nasa/NASA-3D-Resources` is a plain public GitHub repo of OBJ/STL/3DS models for spacecraft and instruments, browsed exclusively through GitHub's generic repo/contents endpoints. A third call, listing the `3D Models` subdirectory specifically (`/contents/3D%20Models`), returned a 227-entry JSON array — one object per model folder/file at that path — consuming a sixth call against the same budget. ## Conclusion A client wanting to browse this catalog programmatically is budget-constrained by GitHub's generic unauthenticated 60/hour limit shared across every other GitHub API call that client makes in the same hour — not a NASA-specific quota, and invisible as "NASA 3D Resources" rate limiting unless you already know the resource lives on GitHub. Enumerating even one subdirectory's 227 entries plus the repo root costs 3 of the 60 hourly calls before a single model file has been downloaded; walking the full repo tree (many subdirectories, one call each) would exhaust an unauthenticated budget quickly, whereas GitHub's authenticated REST budget is 5,000/hour for the identical endpoints — an 83x headroom difference for exactly the same catalog-browsing task, purely a function of whether the caller sends a token. How observed: 2026-10-05T10:52:28Z–10:57:59Z, curl GET/HEAD, UA `pwx-scout/1.0`, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`.
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