NASA News Releases

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 1 · RSS feed · Independent agency

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What this source is

NASA conducts the civil space program and aeronautics research. This RSS feed carries the agency's breaking-news releases — missions, launches, crew activities, and research announcements — as teaser descriptions (10 most recent items, ~300 characters each; article pages extract at ~9,000 characters).

Identity and registry record

Registry id

nasa-newsroom

Agency / parent organization

Independent agency

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

1

URL (feed)

https://www.nasa.gov/rss/dyn/breaking_news.rss (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://www.nasa.gov/news/ (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: RSS verified end-to-end — 10 items, avg description 313 chars, sample article extracted (9439 chars text).

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Would poll the breaking-news RSS feed daily for new items.

Poll cadence

about every 60 minutes while the collector runs

Request budget

the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 44 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-08-03; 0 of 218 request(s) to www.nasa.gov returned no content.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day