# Steward Spaceflight News

> Steward Spaceflight News is a paid API for AI agents from pay.brianbooms.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-02).

Fetches slimmed spaceflight news article summaries (title, source, publish time, excerpt) from TheSpaceDevs Spaceflight News API, with optional keyword search, site filtering, and date range.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.brianbooms.com/api/v1/data/spaceflight-news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/steward-spaceflight-news-0a353794
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5OSwkxFQJTyS-hJgQKbKN

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 steward-spaceflight-news-0a353794
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the 10 most recent spaceflight news articles mentioning 'Starship' published on or after 2025-01-01, and show me the title, source, and a brief excerpt for each?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs current, structured spaceflight news summaries — especially when keyword filtering (e.g. 'Starship', 'Artemis'), source restriction (e.g. SpaceNews), or date-range filtering is needed. It is pre-filtered to the space/aerospace domain and cheaper than building a general news search, making it ideal for space-focused agents, dashboards, or briefing bots.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format for published_at_gte returns an error or empty results
- Unrecognized news_site name yields zero results
- limit outside 1-20 range may cause an error or be clamped
- Payment failure via x402 results in 402 response with no content
- Keyword with no matching articles returns an empty list

## How this service works

Use when an agent needs current spaceflight news — slimmed article summaries (title, source, publish time, excerpt) from TheSpaceDevs Spaceflight News API. Search by keyword, restrict to one news site, or filter by publish date. Use permitted: build it into your products and services, paid or free. Raw redistribution of the feed itself is prohibited.

## Output

Returns up to 20 (default 5) article summaries, each containing the title, publishing news site, publication timestamp, and a short text excerpt drawn from TheSpaceDevs Spaceflight News API.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Max articles, 1-20. Default 5."
  },
  "search": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Keyword search. Example: Starship"
  },
  "news_site": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Restrict to one source. Example: SpaceNews"
  },
  "published_at_gte": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Only articles published on/after YYYY-MM-DD. Example: 2026-10-01"
  }
 },
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/steward-spaceflight-news-0a353794/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from pay.brianbooms.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/pay.brianbooms.com/llms.txt)