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/800351fd-0bfb-4473-a07c-f19161976877/?format=api
{ "id": "800351fd-0bfb-4473-a07c-f19161976877", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/800351fd-0bfb-4473-a07c-f19161976877/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-spherex-punch", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2025-03-12T03:10:12Z", "window_end": "2025-03-12T03:10:27Z", "window_start": "2025-03-12T03:09:57Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 90, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 508, "consecutive_successful_launches": 31, "successful_launches": 494, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 117, "consecutive_successful_landings": 77, "successful_landings": 455, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 480, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2828, "configuration": { "id": 164, "launch_library_id": 188, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/164/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "description": "Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 Block 5", "manufacturer": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 508, "consecutive_successful_launches": 31, "successful_launches": 494, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 117, "consecutive_successful_landings": 77, "successful_landings": 455, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 480, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "program": [ { "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/11/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Resupply Services", "description": "Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 257, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/257/?format=api", "name": "Northrop Grumman Space Systems", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 1020, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/1020/?format=api", "name": "Sierra Nevada Corporation", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20201129212219.png", "start_date": "2008-12-23T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_Services#Commercial_Resupply_Services" }, { "id": 5, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/5/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Crew Program", "description": "The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is a human spaceflight program operated by NASA, in association with American aerospace manufacturers Boeing and SpaceX. The program conducts rotations between the expeditions of the International Space Station program, transporting crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules, in the first crewed orbital spaceflights operated by private companies.", "agencies": [ { "id": 80, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/80/?format=api", "name": "Boeing", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20200820201209.png", "start_date": "2011-04-18T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Program" } ], "variant": "Block 5", "alias": "", "min_stage": 1, "max_stage": 2, "length": 70.0, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2018-05-11", "launch_mass": 549, "leo_capacity": 22800, "gto_capacity": 8300, "to_thrust": 7607, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-9/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "total_launch_count": 418, "consecutive_successful_launches": 120, "successful_launches": 417, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 104 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 654, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 3, "launcher": { "id": 153, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/153/?format=api", "details": "Falcon 9 booster.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1088", "status": "active", "image_url": null, "successful_landings": 6, "attempted_landings": 6, "flights": 6, "last_launch_date": "2025-05-13T01:15:10Z", "first_launch_date": "2024-11-30T08:10:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1561, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Falcon 9 booster B1088 has returned to the launch site at LZ-4 after its 3rd flight.", "location": { "id": 7, "name": "Landing Zone 4", "abbrev": "LZ-4", "description": "LZ at Vandenberg", "location": { "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/11/?format=api", "name": "Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_11_20200803142416.jpg", "total_launch_count": 806, "total_landing_count": 26 }, "successful_landings": 26 }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", "description": "A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from." } }, "previous_flight_date": "2025-01-14T19:09:00Z", "turn_around_time_days": 56, "previous_flight": { "id": "02b28510-be7b-43c1-ab97-b3671ab6813d", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 1235, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "SPHEREx & PUNCH", "description": "SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies.\r\n\r\nIt also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.\r\n\r\nNASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections – large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth – to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Astrophysics", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" } }, "pad": { "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/16/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Space Launch Complex 4E", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_Space_Launch_Complex_4#SLC-4E", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=34.632,-120.611", "latitude": "34.632", "longitude": "-120.611", "location": { "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/11/?format=api", "name": "Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_11_20200803142416.jpg", "total_launch_count": 806, "total_landing_count": 26 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_16_20200803143532.jpg", "total_launch_count": 192 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "SpaceX", "description": "SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=spherex" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 8, "title": "SPHEREx and PUNCH Launch (Official NASA Broadcast)", "description": "Watch the launch of a NASA space telescope that will create a 3D all-sky map in 102 colors, with a constellation of solar-observing satellites along for the ride. Our SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH mis...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BqBUQoPW0Aw/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBUQoPW0Aw" }, { "priority": 9, "title": "SPHEREx and PUNCH Launch", "description": "Live coverage of the launch for SPHEREx, the agency’s newest telescope and its rideshare PUNCH, a mission to study the Sun’s solar wind.", "feature_image": "https://plus.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/spherex-launch-key-art-r3-op-b-horizontal-program-tile-16-9-without-title.jpg", "url": "https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/spherex-and-punch-launch/" }, { "priority": 10, "title": "SPHEREx Mission", "description": "Livestream on X", "feature_image": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Glufho3bgAAK1tj.jpg", "url": "https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxRDjaXwyGl" }, { "priority": 11, "title": "Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA's SPHEREx & PUNCH", "description": "Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches back-to-back Falcon 9 rockets from both coasts.\n\nFirst up is the launch of two NASA missions: SPHEREx and PUNCH on a rideshare mission. Liftoff from pad 4E at Va...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b88ru3jQy-4/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88ru3jQy-4" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_liftof_image_20250312070405.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6897, "location_launch_attempt_count": 794, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 182, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 478, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 48, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 29 }
