# Rotary Agency Spaceflight News API

> Rotary Agency Spaceflight News API is a paid API for AI agents from rotaryagency.uk, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Retrieves the latest spaceflight news articles, launches, and related space industry updates from free public sources

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://rotaryagency.uk/api/free/spaceflightnews?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/rotary-agency-spaceflight-news-api-2e5114ea
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9P9WRr-7JaHN7KUmBjNBn

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability rotary-agency-spaceflight-news-api-2e5114ea
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest spaceflight news headlines for me — I want to see what's going on with recent rocket launches and space missions?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need spaceflight-specific news aggregated from public sources via a simple GET call with micropayment pricing at $0.002 per call. It is well-suited for agents that need lightweight, on-demand access to space news without managing API keys for Spaceflight News API directly. Prefer alternatives if you need real-time launch telemetry, structured launch database queries, or high-volume batch news ingestion.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream spaceflight news source unavailable, returning an error or empty result set
- Rate limiting or payment failure resulting in HTTP 402 response requiring USDC payment
- Malformed or unexpected JSON structure if the underlying public API changes its schema
- No results returned if the underlying feed has no recent articles
- Network timeout from the proxied source

## How this service works

Free-source data APIs (100% margin, no proxy, $0.002/call): ...

## Output

A structured JSON response containing a list of spaceflight news articles, each typically including a title, summary or description, publication date, source name, and URL to the full article. The number of articles returned may vary based on query parameters.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "varies": "endpoint-specific structured JSON"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/rotary-agency-spaceflight-news-api-2e5114ea/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from rotaryagency.uk](https://www.zero.xyz/host/rotaryagency.uk/llms.txt)