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/9a30d934-fa56-4fe5-81df-7c4b24386da2/?format=api
{ "id": "9a30d934-fa56-4fe5-81df-7c4b24386da2", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/9a30d934-fa56-4fe5-81df-7c4b24386da2/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-blue-ghost-lunar-lander-mission-1", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2025-01-15T06:11:39Z", "window_end": "2025-01-15T06:45:00Z", "window_start": "2025-01-15T06:06:00Z", "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": 509, "consecutive_successful_launches": 32, "successful_launches": 495, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 117, "consecutive_successful_landings": 78, "successful_landings": 456, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 481, "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": 2892, "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": 509, "consecutive_successful_launches": 32, "successful_launches": 495, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 117, "consecutive_successful_landings": 78, "successful_landings": 456, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 481, "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": 419, "consecutive_successful_launches": 121, "successful_launches": 418, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 104 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 407, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 5, "launcher": { "id": 151, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/151/?format=api", "details": "Booster to be flown during the Crew-9 mission.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1085", "status": "active", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/b1085_during_la_image_20241217151951.jpg", "successful_landings": 7, "attempted_landings": 7, "flights": 7, "last_launch_date": "2025-05-07T01:17:20Z", "first_launch_date": "2024-08-20T13:20:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1515, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Falcon 9 first stage B1085 will attempt to land on ASDS JRTI after its 5th launch.", "location": { "id": 3, "name": "Just Read the Instructions", "abbrev": "JRTI", "description": "Third (Marmac 303) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Altantic Ocean.", "location": null, "successful_landings": 119 }, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship", "abbrev": "ASDS", "description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory." } }, "previous_flight_date": "2024-12-17T00:52:00Z", "turn_around_time_days": 29, "previous_flight": { "id": "99570ecf-f7e4-40ec-b84a-5758425a6d99", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV07 (RRT-1)" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 1309, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”", "description": "Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night.\r\n\r\nResilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership \"in situ\" to the agency.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Lunar Exploration", "orbit": { "id": 11, "name": "Lunar Orbit", "abbrev": "LO" } }, "pad": { "id": 87, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/87/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Launch Complex 39A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39#Launch_Pad_39A", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.60822681,-80.60428186", "latitude": "28.60822681", "longitude": "-80.60428186", "location": { "id": 27, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/27/?format=api", "name": "Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_27_20200803142447.jpg", "total_launch_count": 265, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_87_20200803143537.jpg", "total_launch_count": 207 }, "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=firefly-blueghost-mission-1" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 8, "title": "SpaceX Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”", "description": "On Wednesday January 15, 2025, SpaceX launched the Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience” mission with a Falcon 9 Block 5 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5JtggBguTYs/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JtggBguTYs" }, { "priority": 9, "title": "Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast)", "description": "Watch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 UTC) ...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aMdYV3_rlP8/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdYV3_rlP8" }, { "priority": 10, "title": "Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Launch to the Moon", "description": "Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeting […]", "feature_image": "https://plus.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/clps-blue-ghost-1-key-art-r6-horizontal-program-tile-16-9-without-title.jpg", "url": "https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/firefly-launch-to-the-moon/" }, { "priority": 11, "title": "Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1", "description": "Livestream on X", "feature_image": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhMlZ8kX0AAUmdS.jpg", "url": "https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXrNyMPPxZ" }, { "priority": 12, "title": "ispace HAKUTO R Mission 2: Live Launch Coverage", "description": "For our Japanese language stream, please access below link:\n日本語配信は下記のURLをご覧ください：\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/live/b-ABRWkBDlM?si=lWJvacD1Yv1BWDfz", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GLdH5OV7sLU/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdH5OV7sLU" }, { "priority": 14, "title": "🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Firefly Blue Ghost & HAKUTO-R M2 “Resilience” to the Moon", "description": "Blue Ghost Mission 1\nBlue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of ...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KWY-GFHcjik/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWY-GFHcjik" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6859, "location_launch_attempt_count": 254, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 196, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 457, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 10, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 8 }
