# Spaceflight News

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spaceflight-news/  
**Website:** https://spaceflightnewsapi.net  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 22.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 21.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 22.1 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 28.1 (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 | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (5)

- **Launch Library 2 API** — 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...
- **Spaceflight News Articles API** — News articles aggregated from 40+ spaceflight news sites.
- **Spaceflight News Blogs API** — Blog posts and longform commentary from spaceflight publishers.
- **Spaceflight News Info API** — API metadata, version, and the list of currently imported news sites.
- **Spaceflight News Reports API** — Official mission, program, and agency reports.

## Agentic access (1)

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

## Security (1)

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

## Tags

News, Space, Spaceflight, Aerospace, Open-Source, Launches, Public APIs

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