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/a2b94add-d1e8-4b1d-9f25-afe7904580d3/?format=api
{ "id": "a2b94add-d1e8-4b1d-9f25-afe7904580d3", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/a2b94add-d1e8-4b1d-9f25-afe7904580d3/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "starship-flight-8", "name": "Starship | Flight 8", "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Failure" }, "net": "2025-03-06T23:30:00Z", "window_end": "2025-03-07T00:30:00Z", "window_start": "2025-03-06T23:30:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "Ship 34 lost 4 out of 6 Raptors at around T+8:00 and entered unrecoverable roll.", "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": 503, "consecutive_successful_launches": 26, "successful_launches": 489, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 119, "consecutive_successful_landings": 72, "successful_landings": 450, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 475, "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": 8534, "configuration": { "id": 464, "launch_library_id": null, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/464/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "description": "Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "family": "Starship", "full_name": "Starship", "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": 503, "consecutive_successful_launches": 26, "successful_launches": 489, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 119, "consecutive_successful_landings": 72, "successful_landings": 450, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 475, "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": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/1/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starship", "description": "The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.", "agencies": [ { "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/spacex2520star_program_20201129204513.png", "start_date": "2019-03-01T05:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship" } ], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 120.0, "diameter": 9.0, "maiden_flight": "2023-04-20", "launch_mass": 5000, "leo_capacity": 100000, "gto_capacity": 21000, "to_thrust": 72000, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_liftof_image_20240314160301.jpg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 4, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 3 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 704, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 191, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/191/?format=api", "details": "Super Heavy booster used for the eighth Starship flight test.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "Booster 15", "status": "active", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_booste_image_20250221071521.jpg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2025-03-06T23:30:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2025-03-06T23:30:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1576, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Superheavy booster No. 15 was successfully caught by the launch pad tower.", "location": { "id": 39, "name": "Orbital Launch Mount A", "abbrev": "OLM-A", "description": "", "location": { "id": 143, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "total_launch_count": 17, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "successful_landings": 3 }, "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": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 871, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/871/?format=api", "mission_end": "2025-03-06T23:43:00Z", "destination": "Suborbital", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 606, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/606/?format=api", "name": "Ship 34", "serial_number": "S34", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Destroyed" }, "description": "Ship 34 (S34) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the eighth Starship flight test. It is the second \"Block 2\" Starship spacecraft with lengthened propellant tanks and forward flaps with a new design, among other enhancements.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/spacecraft/26/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Reuseable Upper Stage" }, "agency": { "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", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg" }, "in_use": true, "capability": "More than 100 tons to Earth orbit", "history": "The Starship second stage was testing during a number of low and high altitude suborbital flights before the first orbital launch attempt.", "details": "Second stage of the two-stage Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "maiden_flight": "2023-04-20", "height": 50.0, "diameter": 9.0, "human_rated": false, "crew_capacity": 0, "payload_capacity": 100000, "flight_life": "Unknown at this stage", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_image_20231116184708.jpeg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "info_link": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/" } }, "docking_events": [] } }, "mission": { "id": 7124, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Flight 8", "description": "Eighth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub" } }, "pad": { "id": 188, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/188/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Orbital Launch Mount A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starbase#Launch_site_(Orbital_Launch_Pad_A_and_B)", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=25.9962,-97.154423", "latitude": "25.9962", "longitude": "-97.154423", "location": { "id": 143, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "total_launch_count": 17, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_orbital_launch_mount_a_20210514061342.jpg", "total_launch_count": 8 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "SpaceX", "description": "SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. 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