/zenith-mars, /zenith-spacex and a couple others just stopped responding and i couldnt figure out why for a bit.

turns out it wasnt my code at all. the SpaceX API got archived on GitHub back on June 6th, its basically dead now. NASA’s Mars Photos endpoint was down too, separate issue entirely. so i just pulled both out.

replaced them with two new commands that use NASA’s APIs that are actually still alive:

/zenith-earth — latest photo of Earth from the EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite

/zenith-neo-week — biggest asteroid passing by Earth this week

one thing to know — dont fire commands back to back without waiting for a reply first, you’ll hit NASA’s rate limit and the second one fails silently. took me way too long to realize this was also why APOD was acting weird earlier, not an actual bug.