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Spaceflight News

News, blogs, and reports about spaceflight in one JSON API

📚 Open DataHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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The Spaceflight News API (SNAPI v4) aggregates articles, blogs, and reports from across the space industry. Results are paginated JSON with titles, summaries, source sites, and links, and can be tied to specific launches or events. No key required.

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Uptime history
95.1%90 days
91.7%30 days
864P50 · ms
4497P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 230 ms, slowest 3598 ms, most recent 230 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/articles/?limit=1

{
  "count": 34986,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 38810,
      "title": "Vast's Haven-1 continues to advance through milestones ahead of planned 2027 launch",
      "news_site": "NASASpaceflight",
      "published_at": "2026-07-04T22:10:06Z",
      "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/vast-update-070426/"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/articles/?limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/articles/?limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/articles/?limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 4HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /articles/?limit=1864 mschecked 12h ago
GET/articles/?limit=1PROBED

News, blogs, and reports about spaceflight in one JSON API

GET/articles/?limit=5

Articles — documented GET route.

GET/articles/?page=1

Articles — documented GET route.

GET/docs

Docs — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Spaceflight News: common questions

Is Spaceflight News free to use?

Yes — Spaceflight News is a free open data API. Free tier: Free — no key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Spaceflight News need an API key?

No — Spaceflight News needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Spaceflight News from the browser?

Yes — Spaceflight News returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Spaceflight News up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Spaceflight News is healthy with 95.1% uptime over 90 days and a 864 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.