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/8d50a489-8f86-4411-81fa-d4bfe75680eb/?format=api
{ "id": "8d50a489-8f86-4411-81fa-d4bfe75680eb", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/8d50a489-8f86-4411-81fa-d4bfe75680eb/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "new-shepard-ns-38", "name": "New Shepard | NS-38", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z", "window_end": "2026-01-22T21:30:00Z", "window_start": "2026-01-22T16:00:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 141, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "BO", "description": "Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.", "administrator": "CEO: Jeff Bezos", "founding_year": "2000", "launchers": "New Shepard | New Glenn", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 40, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 39, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 5, "consecutive_successful_landings": 11, "successful_landings": 37, "failed_landings": 3, "attempted_landings": 40, "info_url": "https://www.blueorigin.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_logo_20190207032427.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_image_20190207032427.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_nation_20240222073724.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8881, "configuration": { "id": 137, "launch_library_id": 9999, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/137/?format=api", "name": "New Shepard", "description": "The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.", "family": "", "full_name": "New Shepard", "manufacturer": { "id": 141, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "BO", "description": "Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.", "administrator": "CEO: Jeff Bezos", "founding_year": "2000", "launchers": "New Shepard | New Glenn", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 40, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 39, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 5, "consecutive_successful_landings": 11, "successful_landings": 37, "failed_landings": 3, "attempted_landings": 40, "info_url": "https://www.blueorigin.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_logo_20190207032427.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_image_20190207032427.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_nation_20240222073724.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 1, "max_stage": 1, "length": 15.0, "diameter": 3.7, "maiden_flight": "2015-04-29", "launch_mass": 75, "leo_capacity": 0, "gto_capacity": 0, "to_thrust": 490, "apogee": 100, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new2520shepard_image_20190207032624.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.blueorigin.com/new-shepard/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard", "total_launch_count": 38, "consecutive_successful_launches": 15, "successful_launches": 37, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 873, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 17, "launcher": { "id": 90, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/90/?format=api", "details": "New Shepard vehicle #4 is the fourth flight vehicle of the New Shepard suborbital rocket. It was used for Blue Origin's first crewed launches.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "NS-4", "status": "active", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/90_image_20210412202510.jpeg", "successful_landings": 17, "attempted_landings": 17, "flights": 17, "last_launch_date": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z", "first_launch_date": "2021-01-14T17:19:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1766, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The New Shepard booster NS-4 has landed back on the landing pad.", "location": { "id": 11, "name": "Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas", "abbrev": "CR", "description": "New Shepard landing site.", "location": { "id": 29, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/29/?format=api", "name": "Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_29_20200803142436.jpg", "total_launch_count": 38, "total_landing_count": 38 }, "successful_landings": 33 }, "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": "2025-10-08T13:40:27Z", "turn_around_time_days": 106, "previous_flight": { "id": "a7d60abb-c22d-41fe-9c17-35dbdd7f8029", "name": "New Shepard | NS-36" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 902, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/902/?format=api", "mission_end": "2026-01-22T16:35:47Z", "destination": "Suborbital", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 5210, "role": "Tourist", "astronaut": { "id": 883, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/883/?format=api", "name": "Alain Fernandez", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 141, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "French", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "International real estate developer and investor", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/alain_fernandez_image_20260116170455.jpg", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z", "first_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z" } }, { "id": 5212, "role": "Tourist", "astronaut": { "id": 884, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/884/?format=api", "name": "Alberto Gutiérrez", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 141, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Spanish", "twitter": null, "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/albertogutierrezpascual/", "bio": "Entrepreneur, technologist, and world traveler.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/alberto_guti25_image_20260116170918.jpg", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z", "first_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z" } }, { "id": 5214, "role": "Tourist", "astronaut": { "id": 885, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/885/?format=api", "name": "Jim Hendren", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 141, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://x.com/JimHendren1", "instagram": null, "bio": "Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, former F-15 fighter pilot, and past Commander of the 157th Combat Operations Squadron, with multiple 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"https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/linda_edwards_p_image_20260116170251.jpg", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z", "first_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z" } }, { "id": 5206, "role": "Tourist", "astronaut": { "id": 881, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/881/?format=api", "name": "Timothy Drexler", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 141, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Former owner and CEO of Ace Asphalt", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/timothy_drexler_image_20260116165921.jpg", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z", "first_flight": "2026-01-22T16:25:35Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": 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