News Spaceflight

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  "articles": [
    {
      "featured": false,
      "image": "https://spacepolicyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Starship-intact-ocean-July-24-26-300x173.jpg",
      "launches": [
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      "published": "2026-10-14T00:40:42Z",
      "site": "SpacePolicyOnline.com",
      "summary": "The Starship second stage of SpaceX’s Integrated Flight Test-13 is back at Starbase, TX after surprisingly surviving splashdown in the Indian Ocean in July. To date, it is the only […]",
      "title": "Ship 40 Back At Starbase After Surprise Reentry Survival",
      "url": "https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/ship-40-back-at-starbase-after-surprise-reentry-survival/"
    },
    {
      "featured": false,
      "image": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Ship-41-and-Booster-21-Liftoff-for-Flight-14-scaled.jpg",
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      "published": "2026-09-30T15:17:07Z",
      "site": "NASASpaceflight",
      "summary": "SpaceX made significant strides in the Starship program during Flight 14. Booster 21, despite losing… The post Starship makes orbit, Flight 15 preps in full swing appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.",
      "title": "Starship makes orbit, Flight 15 preps in full swing",
      "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/09/starship-14-orbit-flight-15/"
    },
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      "image": "https://i0.wp.com/www.spacescout.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cam-liftoff.jpg",
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      "published": "2026-09-29T15:13:22Z",
      "site": "Space Scout",
      "summary": "Although technical issues cut the mission short, Starship achieved most of its objectives, including its first deployment of an operational payload into orbit.",
      "title": "Starship Orbits Earth, Returns Early",
      "url": "https://www.spacescout.info/2026/09/starship-orbits-earth-returns-early/"
    },
    {
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      "image": "http://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260928_Starship_Flight-14.jpeg",
      "launches": [
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      "published": "2026-09-28T20:40:02Z",
      "site": "Spaceflight Now",
      "summary": "The Super Heavy first stage booster, generating some 16 million pounds of thrust — twice the power of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket — rapidly accelerated as it consumed propellant and lost weight, climbing out of the thick lower atmosphere along a southeasterly trajectory.",
      "title": "Starship returns to Earth; rocket splashes down north of Hawaii after three-hour flight",
      "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/28/starship-returns-to-earth-rocket-splashes-down-north-of-hawaii-after-three-hour-flight/"
    },
    {
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      "image": "https://spacepolicyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IFT14-liftoff-Sep-28-26-300x169.png",
      "launches": [
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      ],
      "published": "2026-09-28T17:52:11Z",
      "site": "SpacePolicyOnline.com",
      "summary": "The flight did not go exactly as planned, but SpaceX’s Starship Integrated Flight Test-14 did make it into orbit for the first time today and deployed 26 operational Starlink V3 […]",
      "title": "Starship Achieves Orbit for the First Time",
      "url": "https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/starship-achieves-orbit-for-the-first-time/"
    }
  ],
  "query": "starship",
  "source": "Spaceflight News API (SNAPI), articles link to their publishers",
  "total_matches": 1273
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/news/spaceflight?limit=5&q=starship'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/news/spaceflight?limit=5&q=starship' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsaylorinnovations.com%2Fapi%2Fnews%2Fspaceflight
const res = await pay("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/news/spaceflight?limit=5&q=starship");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/news/spaceflight?limit=5&q=starship")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)