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.
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 no
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 requi
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 Cub
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 (sam
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
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/
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
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 cove
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.
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_comp
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
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 (candidat
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 unregu
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How do I install Mrd?
Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.
Does Mrd need an API key?
The publisher lists these environment variables: MRD_API_KEY.
What transport does Mrd use?
Mrd is reached over HTTP.
When was Mrd last checked?
Last checked 2026-11-10. Spacecraft component specs from vendor datasheets: search, digests, facts, gaps, budgets, bus design
