# Spaceflight News API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spaceflight-news-api/  
**Website:** https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 27.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 62.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 20.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spaceflight News Api Agentic Access** — 7 operations

## Security (1)

- **Spaceflight News Api Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Spaceflight News Api Plans Pricing**

## Tags

News, Space, Spaceflight, Media

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/spaceflight-news-api/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.