Question 1

What is Space News?

Accepted Answer

Space News is the public SpaceX, Starbase, Boca Chica, South Padre Island, and Cameron County aggregation surface for PlatPhormNews. It reads public RSS, Atom, and YouTube feeds and exposes public API, RSS, llms, and MCP surfaces.

Question 2

Does Space News create or fake articles?

Accepted Answer

No. Latest News resolves to real public feed entries, an honest empty state, or an explicit degraded state. Source counts come from the enabled source registry.

Question 3

Is Ask AI fully model-backed?

Accepted Answer

Only if a backend model provider is configured and connected. Without that provider, Space returns deterministic degraded public-feed digests and clearly labels the model state.

Question 4

Are live-camera links guaranteed to be live?

Accepted Answer

No. Space lists public live-camera and launch-viewing links with availability-may-vary labels. Bounded server checks can validate reachability, but provider live status may change.

Question 5

Do public APIs require PLATPHORM_API_KEY?

Accepted Answer

Public-safe Phase 1 read endpoints do not require a key. Future protected backend actions use only PLATPHORM_API_KEY through Authorization Bearer or X-PlatPhorm-API-Key.

Question 6

Does Space post articles to MCP?

Accepted Answer

No Phase 1 article-posting claim is made. Space exposes real read-only MCP JSON-RPC tooling at /api/mcp. Future report/write actions return explicit degraded protected states until integrations are configured.

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