Launch Instance
API endpoint that returns all Launch objects or a single launch.
EXAMPLE - /launch/
GET: Return a list of all Launch objects.
FILTERS: Fields - 'name', 'id(s)', 'lsp_id', 'lsp_name', 'serial_number', 'launcher_config__id', 'rocket__spacecraftflight__spacecraft__name'
MODE: 'normal', 'list', 'detailed' EXAMPLE: ?mode=list
SEARCH: Searches through the launch name, rocket name, launch agency, mission name & spacecraft name. EXAMPLE - ?search=SpaceX
GET /2.0.0/launch/089a182d-7e8a-48d8-815c-eefbade8110c/?format=api
{ "id": "089a182d-7e8a-48d8-815c-eefbade8110c", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/089a182d-7e8a-48d8-815c-eefbade8110c/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "haste-prometheus-run-van", "name": "HASTE | Prometheus Run (VAN)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2025-11-18T13:00:00Z", "window_end": "2025-11-18T18:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-11-18T12:45:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 76, "consecutive_successful_launches": 35, "successful_launches": 72, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 44, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8791, "configuration": { "id": 26, "launch_library_id": 148, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "description": "Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.", "family": "", "full_name": "Electron", "manufacturer": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 76, "consecutive_successful_launches": 35, "successful_launches": 72, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 44, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 1.2, "maiden_flight": "2017-05-25", "launch_mass": 13, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 162, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/electron/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron", "total_launch_count": 76, "consecutive_successful_launches": 35, "successful_launches": 72, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 42 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7382, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Prometheus Run (VAN)", "description": "Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program.\r\n\r\nThis mission was lead by MDA and deployed a government-provided primary payload developed by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), and multiple secondary payloads by federal and industry partners, which tested key technologies for missile defense applications.\r\n\r\nThe mission was contracted to Rocket Lab through the DIU’s Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) program, an initiative supporting test and evaluation of new and emerging hypersonic technologies through low cost, responsive and long endurance flight testing.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub" } }, "pad": { "id": 79, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/79/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C)", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=37.833262,-75.488235", "latitude": "37.833262", "longitude": "-75.488235", "location": { "id": 21, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/21/?format=api", "name": "Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_21_20200803142423.jpg", "total_launch_count": 83, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_79_20200803143607.jpg", "total_launch_count": 9 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Rocket Lab Electron HASTE Launch from Wallops Island", "description": "", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n3EppO2wppQ/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3EppO2wppQ" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 83, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 9, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 75, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": null, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 17 }
