# Spaceflight News [Health: Active]

**Category:** 🚀 Aerospace & Astrodynamics  
**Repository:** https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-spaceflight-news  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/spaceflight-news

## Description
Spaceflight News MCP.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **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 status. Newest first. Keyless.
- **get_article** — Get a single spaceflight news article by its numeric id, with the full untruncated summary plus any associated launches and events. Keyless.
- **latest_reports** — Latest long-form spaceflight mission reports (longer than standard news articles), newest first. Keyless.
- **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.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Install path detected from listing signals. Uses `npx` (confidence: high):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "spaceflight-news": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","@pipeworx/mcp-spaceflight-news"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation

## What the Spaceflight News MCP server does

The Spaceflight News MCP server exposes structured access to spaceflight news aggregated from dozens of sources. These include Spaceflight Now, NASASpaceflight, NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ESA, and other publishers represented by the Spaceflight News API.

Its tools cover four related tasks:

- Search articles using full-text terms, with optional filters for news source, publication date, and featured status.
- Retrieve one article by its numeric ID, including its complete summary and any associated launches or events.
- Return the newest long-form mission reports, which are longer than standard news articles.
- List all sources known to the API and return the API version, so source names can be reused when filtering searches.

Search results and reports are ordered newest first. All four listed tools are keyless.

## How it works

You can connect through the Pipeworx gateway at `https://gateway.pipeworx.io/spaceflight-news/mcp`. The gateway exposes the pack tools and also adds shared Pipeworx meta-tools. Those shared tools can route questions across the broader Pipeworx catalog, so the scoped endpoint lists more tools than the four spaceflight-specific tools described here.

The same gateway also has a full endpoint at `https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp`. The difference is which pack tools appear directly in the tool list; the shared routing capability can reach the wider catalog from either endpoint.

For applications that do not use an MCP client, the gateway provides HTTP tool calls. For example, article search can be invoked with a POST request to the corresponding `spaceflight_news_search_articles` tool endpoint and a JSON body containing the search term.

## Setup and configuration

Add the gateway URL to an MCP client configuration, or run the standalone package locally with `npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-spaceflight-news`. The local package communicates over stdin and stdout and does not require a Pipeworx account or gateway round trip.

The standalone configuration is:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spaceflight-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-spaceflight-news"]
    }
  }
}
```

The gateway configuration uses the `url` field instead.

## Tools and capabilities

`search_articles` supports full-text searching and filters for `news_site`, publication date, and featured status. Use `list_sources` first when an exact source name is needed. `get_article` accepts a numeric article ID and returns a full, untruncated summary with related launch and event data. `latest_reports` focuses on longer mission reporting rather than regular article results.

## Limitations and notes

The Spaceflight News MCP server depends on the articles and metadata available through the Spaceflight News API. The material does not specify refresh intervals, pagination behavior, ranking controls beyond newest-first ordering, or historical coverage guarantees.

Gateway connections include shared Pipeworx meta-tools in addition to the pack tools. The local stdio mode exposes only the spaceflight-specific tools and does not provide the shared routing tools. The project is licensed under MIT.

_Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/spaceflight-news/readme_