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How it works

Aerospace news from feed to reader in under an hour. Here's the system that powers The Canadian Space — a blend of AI curation, human judgment, and transparent publishing that turns the chaos of space news into a curated daily (and weekly, and monthly) briefing you can trust.

The editorial pipeline

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    A["🌐 Feeds &<br/>APIs"] --> B["🤖 Robo Chris<br/>Curator"]
    B --> C["✍️ LLM Author<br/>Draft"]
    C --> D["🔍 Editor &<br/>Fact-Check"]
    D --> E["👤 Human<br/>Review"]
    E --> F["📰 WordPress<br/>Publish"]
    F --> G["📱 Social &<br/>RSS"]
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Every article—whether it's a daily roundup, a weekly deep dive, or a monthly spotlight—flows through the same pipeline. But the beauty isn't in the pipeline itself; it's in the transparency. You know exactly what role humans play, what the AI does, and how we keep quality high.

  • The Editorial Pipeline

    Walk through each stage: discovery, curation, drafting, editing, fact-checking, publishing, and distribution.

  • Meet Robo Chris

    The curator persona behind your daily briefing—the AI system that scans, weighs, and proposes, while Chris (human) decides.

  • Quality Assurance

    Human-in-the-loop reviews, automated fact-checking, source attribution, and editorial oversight.

Key stats

  • 7 active workflows — Daily, 2 weekly, 4 monthly
  • 3 LLM providers — Gemini 2.5 Flash (primary), Claude Haiku 4.5 (editor/fallback), xAI Grok 3 (secondary fallback)
  • 4 major data sources — SpaceFlightNews API, Launch Library 2, Crawl4AI web scraper, curated RSS feeds
  • Every article — reviewed by a human before it reaches you
  • Every article — archived for reference and continuous learning

No mystery here. You're reading the output of a system we're proud to show you.

Up next: The Editorial Pipeline →