Spaceflight News

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Spaceflight News API — search and browse aggregated spaceflight news articles and mission reports from NASA, SpaceX, ESA, and dozens of sources.

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Tools

search_articles

Full-text search spaceflight news articles aggregated from dozens of sources (Spaceflight Now, NASASpaceflight, NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ESA, and more). Filter by source, publish date, and featured

No parameters required.

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get_article

Get a single spaceflight news article by its numeric id, with the full untruncated summary plus any associated launches and events. Keyless.

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latest_reports

Latest long-form spaceflight mission reports (longer than standard news articles), newest first. Keyless.

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list_sources

List every news source the Spaceflight News API aggregates, plus the API version. Use the names to filter search_articles by news_site. Keyless.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/spaceflight-news/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/spaceflight-news/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_articles","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_articles", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("spaceflight news api — search and browse aggregated spaceflight news articles and mission reports from nasa, spacex, esa, and dozens of sources");