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/87d3fde4-e6f6-4e8b-bc9a-d5c28915acb3/?format=api
{ "id": "87d3fde4-e6f6-4e8b-bc9a-d5c28915acb3", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/87d3fde4-e6f6-4e8b-bc9a-d5c28915acb3/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "h-iia-202-gosat-gw", "name": "H-IIA 202 | GOSAT-GW", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Go" }, "net": "2025-06-23T16:33:03Z", "window_end": "2025-06-23T16:52:00Z", "window_start": "2025-06-23T16:33:03Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "JAXA", "description": "The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.", "administrator": "Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa", "founding_year": "2003", "launchers": "H-II", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 36, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 32, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.jaxa.jp/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Aerospace_Exploration_Agency", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_logo_20190207032440.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_image_20190207032440.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_nation_20230531052930.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 156, "configuration": { "id": 32, "launch_library_id": 53, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/32/?format=api", "name": "H-IIA", "description": "H-IIA (H2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The liquid-fueled H-IIA rockets have been used to launch satellites into geostationary orbit, to launch a lunar orbiting spacecraft, and to launch Akatsuki, which studied the planet Venus. Launches occur at the Tanegashima Space Center.", "family": "H-II", "full_name": "H-IIA 202", "manufacturer": { "id": 98, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/98/?format=api", "name": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "MHI", "description": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group.\r\n\r\nMHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.", "administrator": "President: Seiji Izumisawa", "founding_year": "1884", "launchers": "H-I, H-II, H-III", "spacecraft": "Kounotori | HTV", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 54, "consecutive_successful_launches": 6, "successful_launches": 53, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 13, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.mhi.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_logo_20200117065724.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_image_20200117065724.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_nation_20240112111043.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "202", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 53.0, "diameter": 4.0, "maiden_flight": "2001-08-29", "launch_mass": 285, "leo_capacity": 10000, "gto_capacity": 4100, "to_thrust": 2260, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iia_202_lifto_image_20240325123250.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-IIA", "total_launch_count": 34, "consecutive_successful_launches": 34, "successful_launches": 34, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 1 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 5892, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "GOSAT-GW", "description": "GOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Greenhouse gases and Water cycle), formerly known as GOSAT 3, is JAXA's next generation satellite to monitor the greenhosue gases like carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. It is the follow on to the GOSAT 2 (Ibuki 2) and GCOM-W (Shizuku) missions.\r\n\r\nGOSAT-GW will have two missions: greenhouse gases observation for Japan's Ministry of the Environment and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and water-cycle observation for JAXA. By developing the GOSAT-GW satellite, Mitsubishi Electric will contribute to measures for preventing disasters attributed to global warming and climate change, and to advance scientific and technological methods that enable more accurate prediction of climate change.\r\n\r\nIn December 2013, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) was selected as the prime contractor for the spacecraft and the instruments.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" } }, "pad": { "id": 41, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/41/?format=api", "agency_id": 37, "name": "Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinobu_Launch_Complex", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=30.400813,130.977748", "latitude": "30.400813", "longitude": "130.977748", "location": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/26/?format=api", "name": "Tanegashima Space Center, Japan", "country_code": "JPN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_26_20200803142507.jpg", "total_launch_count": 94, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_41_20200803143551.jpg", "total_launch_count": 56 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iia_202_lifto_image_20240325123250.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6959, "location_launch_attempt_count": 95, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 57, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 37, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 110, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 1 }
