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/1514d38c-b1ed-4a4a-9878-04646f0b6b94/?format=api
{ "id": "1514d38c-b1ed-4a4a-9878-04646f0b6b94", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/1514d38c-b1ed-4a4a-9878-04646f0b6b94/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "electron-return-to-sender-rideshare", "name": "Electron | Return to Sender (Rideshare)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2020-11-20T02:20:01Z", "window_end": "2020-11-20T04:34:00Z", "window_start": "2020-11-20T01:44:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 85, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": "#ReturnToSender", "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": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://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": 2804, "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": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://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": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 31 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 153, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/88/?format=api", "details": "Electron first stage used for Rocket Lab's 'Return to Sender' test recovery.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "16", "status": "retired", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/88_image_20201120013902.jpg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2020-11-20T02:20:01Z", "first_launch_date": "2020-11-20T02:20:01Z" }, "landing": { "id": 184, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "Rocket Lab successfully landed the Electron booster via parachute as part of the 'Return to Sender' launch.", "location": { "id": 15, "name": "South Pacific", "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "total_launch_count": 58, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "successful_landings": 4 }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 1204, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Return to Sender (Rideshare)", "description": "\"Return to Sender\" will loft 30 satellites to a sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km altitude for a range of customers, including TriSept, Unseenlabs, Swarm, Te Pūnaha Ātea - Auckland Space Institute, and global gaming software company Valve. The satellites span a range of operations, from TriSept’s tech demonstration of new tether systems designed to accelerate spacecraft reentry and reduce orbital debris, through to the next generation of maritime surveillance satellites for Unseenlabs, as well as communications satellites for Swarm. The mission will also deploy New Zealand’s first student-built satellite, the APSS-1 satellite for Te Pūnaha Ātea - Auckland Space Institute at The University of Auckland.\r\n\r\nThe DRAGRACER mission will test the effectiveness of new tether technologies designed to accelerate spacecraft reentry and reduce orbital debris at the conclusion of space missions. TriSept has completed the integration of a pair of qualified Millennium Space Systems 6U small satellites, one featuring the tether drag device and one without. The controlled spacecraft should deorbit in approximately 45 days, while the second spacecraft is expected to remain in orbit for seven to nine years.\r\n\r\nBRO-2 and BRO-3 are the second and third satellites in French company Unseenlabs’ planned constellation of about 20 satellites dedicated to maritime surveillance. \r\n\r\nSwarm will launch the latest 24 1/4U SpaceBEE satellites to continue building out its planned constellation of 150 satellites to provide affordable satellite communications services to IoT devices in remote regions around the world. \r\n\r\nThe student-built Waka Āmiorangi Aotearoa APSS-1 satellite is designed to monitor electrical activity in Earth’s upper atmosphere to test whether ionospheric disturbances can predict earthquakes.\r\n\r\nExtra payload on this flight is a 150 mm 3D printed Half-Life Gnome Chompski. Created for Valve Software's co-founder Gabe Newell by design studio Weta Workshop, it serves as an homage to the innovation and creativity of gamers worldwide, and also aims to test and qualify a novel 3D printing technique that could be employed for future spacecraft components. Gnome will remain attached to the Kick Stage and will burn up on reentry.\r\n\r\nBesides payloads, this flight will also serve as a test of Electron's reusability. Rocket Lab will attempt to bring Electron’s first stage back to Earth under a parachute system for a controlled water landing before collection by a recovery vessel.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Dedicated Rideshare", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" } }, "pad": { "id": 65, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/65/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Launch_Complex_1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=-39.262833,177.864469", "latitude": "-39.262833", "longitude": "177.864469", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "total_launch_count": 58, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_65_20200803143549.jpg", "total_launch_count": 30 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Return to Sender", "description": "This mission, which will be Rocket Lab’s 16th Electron launch, will lift-off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula during a 14-day launch window that opens on November 16 NZT / November 15 UTC.", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/completed-missions/flight-16/" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Rocket Lab 'Return To Sender' Launch", "description": "Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eZGI_lHGltA/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGI_lHGltA" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron25202_image_20201120015105.jpg", "infographic": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/infographic_images/electron25202_infographic_20201112150118.png", "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6016, "location_launch_attempt_count": 16, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 16, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 16, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 94, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 6, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 6, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 6 }
