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Spaceflight News API

The Spaceflight News API (SNAPI) is a free, open REST API that aggregates space-related news, blogs, and reports from over 43 sources including NASA, SpaceX, Reuters, NASASpaceflight, and Spaceflight Now. It provides paginated access to articles, blogs, and reports with integration to Launch Library 2 for linking news to specific launches and events.

Spaceflight News API publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Articles API, Blogs API, Info API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include News, Space, Spaceflight, and Media.

The Spaceflight News API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Spaceflight News API’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, support, and 3 more developer resources.

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46.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
4 APIs
NewsSpaceSpaceflightMedia

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Composite quality — 46.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Spaceflight News API Articles API

Space news article operations

Spaceflight News API Blogs API

Space blog post operations

Spaceflight News API Info API

API metadata operations

Spaceflight News API Reports API

Space mission report operations

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Spaceflight News API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spaceflight News Api Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spaceflight News Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Spaceflight News Api Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Spaceflight News Api Context

14 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Spaceflight News API API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Spaceflight News API API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Spaceflight News API Article

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spaceflight News Api Article Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Spaceflight News Api List Articles Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Spaceflight News Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Spaceflight News Api Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: spaceflight-news-api
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Spaceflight News API
description: The Spaceflight News API (SNAPI) is a free, open REST API that aggregates space-related news, blogs, and reports
  from over 43 sources including NASA, SpaceX, Reuters, NASASpaceflight, and Spaceflight Now. It provides paginated access
  to articles, blogs, and reports with integration to Launch Library 2 for linking news to specific launches and events.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spaceflight-news-api.png
tags:
- News
- Space
- Spaceflight
- Media
created: '2024-11-07'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: spaceflight-news-api:spaceflight-news-api-articles-api
  name: Spaceflight News API Articles API
  description: Space news article operations
  humanURL: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  baseURL: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4
  tags:
  - Articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spaceflight-news-api-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  - type: SwaggerUI
    url: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/docs/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/rules/spaceflight-news-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spaceflight-news-api-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spaceflight-news-api-article-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spaceflight-news-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spaceflight-news-api-vocabulary.yml
- aid: spaceflight-news-api:spaceflight-news-api-blogs-api
  name: Spaceflight News API Blogs API
  description: Space blog post operations
  humanURL: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  baseURL: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4
  tags:
  - Blogs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spaceflight-news-api-blogs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  - type: SwaggerUI
    url: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/docs/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/rules/spaceflight-news-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spaceflight-news-api-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spaceflight-news-api-article-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spaceflight-news-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spaceflight-news-api-vocabulary.yml
- aid: spaceflight-news-api:spaceflight-news-api-info-api
  name: Spaceflight News API Info API
  description: API metadata operations
  humanURL: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  baseURL: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4
  tags:
  - Info
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spaceflight-news-api-info-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  - type: SwaggerUI
    url: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/docs/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/rules/spaceflight-news-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spaceflight-news-api-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spaceflight-news-api-article-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spaceflight-news-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spaceflight-news-api-vocabulary.yml
- aid: spaceflight-news-api:spaceflight-news-api-reports-api
  name: Spaceflight News API Reports API
  description: Space mission report operations
  humanURL: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  baseURL: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spaceflight-news-api-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
  - type: SwaggerUI
    url: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/docs/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/rules/spaceflight-news-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spaceflight-news-api-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spaceflight-news-api-article-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spaceflight-news-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spaceflight-news-api/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spaceflight-news-api-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spaceflight-news-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spaceflight-news-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/docs/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.gg/thespacedevs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com