The Spaceflight News API (SNAPI) by The Space Devs (TSD) is the most complete and up-to-date open spaceflight news API. It aggregates articles, blogs, and reports from 40+ news sites (NASA, ESA, SpaceX, Spaceflight Now, SpaceNews, Ars Technica, Reuters, and more) and exposes them through a public REST API (and a GraphQL endpoint). The project is open source under AGPL-3.0, runs on community Patreon funding, and is integrated with the Launch Library 2 API so any article can be linked to a specific launch or event.
Spaceflight News is listed with 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Articles API, Blogs API, Info API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include News, Space, Spaceflight, Aerospace, and Open Source.
The Spaceflight News catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Spaceflight News’ developer surface includes documentation, changelog, FAQ, tooling, and 20 more developer resources.
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Sister API by The Space Devs, used by SNAPI to relate news articles to specific launches and events. Provides upcoming/previous launch data, events, agencies, astronauts, expedi...
REST API providing access to aggregated spaceflight news articles, blog posts, and official mission reports from 40+ news sites. Supports rich filtering (full-text search, news-...
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name: Spaceflight News
description: The Spaceflight News API (SNAPI) by The Space Devs (TSD) is the most complete and up-to-date open spaceflight
news API. It aggregates articles, blogs, and reports from 40+ news sites (NASA, ESA, SpaceX, Spaceflight Now, SpaceNews,
Ars Technica, Reuters, and more) and exposes them through a public REST API (and a GraphQL endpoint). The project is open
source under AGPL-3.0, runs on community Patreon funding, and is integrated with the Launch Library 2 API so any article
can be linked to a specific launch or event.
url: https://spaceflightnewsapi.net
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- name: News Aggregation
description: Aggregates spaceflight news from 40+ sites (NASA, ESA, SpaceX, ULA, Spaceflight Now, SpaceNews, Ars Technica,
Reuters, and more) into a single API.
- name: Three Content Types
description: Separate endpoints for articles (news), blogs (op-eds and longform), and reports (official mission/program
reports).
- name: Full-Text Search
description: Search articles by title, summary, or arbitrary keyword across all three content types.
- name: Launch Library 2 Integration
description: Every article can be linked to a Launch Library 2 launch (UUID) or event (LL2 ID), enabling related-news widgets
in launch tracking apps.
- name: Rich Filtering
description: Filter by news site (inclusion/exclusion lists), published-at/updated-at date ranges, has_launch, has_event,
is_featured.
- name: Ordering and Pagination
description: Order by published_at or updated_at (ascending or descending) with offset/limit pagination.
- name: GraphQL Endpoint
description: Companion GraphQL endpoint at /v4/graphql/ for clients that want to shape their own responses.
- name: Free and Open
description: Free to use, no authentication required, open source under AGPL-3.0, funded through Patreon.
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- name: Launch Tracker Companion Feed
description: Embed a "related news" feed alongside upcoming launches in a launch tracking app, using the LL2 launch UUID
to filter SNAPI articles.
- name: Space Industry Newsletter
description: Pull recent articles, dedupe by news site, and publish a daily/weekly newsletter rollup.
- name: Voice Assistant Briefing
description: Power a daily spaceflight briefing skill that reads out the latest featured articles from a curated set of
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- name: Research and Analysis
description: Build a corpus of spaceflight news for NLP/research projects (topic modeling, sentiment analysis, mission coverage
analysis).
- name: Mission Operator Dashboard
description: Surface official mission reports alongside live telemetry/operations dashboards for situational awareness.
- name: Educational Apps
description: Power student-facing apps that pair upcoming launches with explanatory articles and blog posts.
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- name: Launch Library 2 API
description: Sister TSD API; articles/blogs/reports can be linked to LL2 launch UUIDs and event IDs.
- name: Patreon
description: Funding model — the API is community-funded via Patreon contributions to The Space Devs.
- name: Discord
description: Support and feedback channel via the TSD Discord server (#feedback-and-help forum).
- name: GitHub Issues
description: Bug reports and feature requests handled via GitHub Issues on TheSpaceDevs/spaceflightnewsapi.
x-solutions:
- name: Spaceflight News Apps
description: Mobile and web apps that aggregate and display spaceflight news from many publishers without each app maintaining
its own scrapers.
- name: Mission Coverage Dashboards
description: Dashboards that combine launches, events, and news coverage in one view.
- name: Newsroom Tooling
description: Editorial dashboards for spaceflight journalists tracking what competitor outlets are publishing on a given
mission.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
Spaceflight News API — frequently asked questions
Does Spaceflight News have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Spaceflight News, including Launch Library 2 API, Spaceflight News Articles API and Spaceflight News Blogs API, and 2 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Spaceflight News API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Spaceflight News, each linked for download from this page.
Is the Spaceflight News API ready for AI agents?
Spaceflight News has a Kin Score of 22.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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