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Spaceflight News

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.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Spaceflight News the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Spaceflight News scores 41.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 41.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Spaceflight News

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Spaceflight News. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

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.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

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

Spaceflight News API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Spaceflight News GraphQL API

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-...

GRAPHQL

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

Spaceflight News Context

11 classes · 29 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Spaceflight News API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Spaceflight News API Rules

41 rules · 10 errors · 24 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 11

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

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

Article

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Author

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Blog

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Event

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Info

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Launch

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaginatedArticleList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaginatedBlogList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaginatedReportList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Report

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Socials

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 11 ·

JSON Structure 11

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spaceflight News Article Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Author Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Blog Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Event Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Info Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Launch Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Report Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spaceflight News Socials Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scroll within the panel for all 11 ·

Examples 11

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scroll within the panel for all 11 ·

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Spaceflight News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

Spaceflight News Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Spaceflight News — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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