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/a67b40f9-cfcc-4614-a355-a156280b4bb3/?format=api
{ "id": "a67b40f9-cfcc-4614-a355-a156280b4bb3", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/a67b40f9-cfcc-4614-a355-a156280b4bb3/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1353, "slug": "vulcan-vc4l-dream-chaser-crs-2-flight-1", "name": "Vulcan VC4L | Dream Chaser CRS 2 Flight 1", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "TBD" }, "net": "2025-09-30T00:00:00Z", "window_end": "2025-09-30T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-09-30T00:00:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": true, "tbddate": true, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 124, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/124/?format=api", "name": "United Launch Alliance", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "ULA", "description": "United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. ULA launches from both coasts of the US. They launch their Atlas V vehicle from LC-41 in Cape Canaveral and LC-3E at Vandeberg. Their Delta IV launches from LC-37 at Cape Canaveral and LC-6 at Vandenberg.", "administrator": "CEO: Tory Bruno", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Atlas | Delta IV | Vulcan", "spacecraft": "CST-100 Starliner", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 165, "consecutive_successful_launches": 165, "successful_launches": 165, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 44, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.ulalaunch.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Launch_Alliance", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520launch2520alliance_logo_20210412195953.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united_launch_a_image_20210412201210.png", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520launch2520alliance_nation_20230531043703.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2529, "configuration": { "id": 202, "launch_library_id": 227, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/202/?format=api", "name": "Vulcan VC4L", "description": "Vulcan Centaur is a two-stage-to-orbit, heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by United Launch Alliance (ULA) since 2014. It is principally designed to meet launch demands for the U.S. government's National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program for use by the United States Space Force and U.S. intelligence agencies for national security satellite launches. It will replace both of ULA's existing launchers (Atlas V and Delta IV Heavy) in this role, as these launchers are retiring.", "family": "Vulcan", "full_name": "Vulcan VC4L", "manufacturer": { "id": 124, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/124/?format=api", "name": "United Launch Alliance", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "ULA", "description": "United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. ULA launches from both coasts of the US. They launch their Atlas V vehicle from LC-41 in Cape Canaveral and LC-3E at Vandeberg. Their Delta IV launches from LC-37 at Cape Canaveral and LC-6 at Vandenberg.", "administrator": "CEO: Tory Bruno", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Atlas | Delta IV | Vulcan", "spacecraft": "CST-100 Starliner", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 165, "consecutive_successful_launches": 165, "successful_launches": 165, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 44, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.ulalaunch.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Launch_Alliance", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520launch2520alliance_logo_20210412195953.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united_launch_a_image_20210412201210.png", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520launch2520alliance_nation_20230531043703.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "VC4L", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 67.4, "diameter": 5.4, "maiden_flight": null, "launch_mass": 770, "leo_capacity": 24600, "gto_capacity": 11700, "to_thrust": 13706, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": null, "info_url": "https://www.ulalaunch.com/rockets/vulcan-centaur", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Centaur", "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 2 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 581, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/581/?format=api", "mission_end": null, "destination": "International Space Station", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 447, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/447/?format=api", "name": "Dream Chaser Tenacity", "serial_number": null, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "First operational Dream Chaser.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 24, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/spacecraft/24/?format=api", "name": "Dream Chaser", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Spaceplane" }, "agency": { "id": 1020, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/1020/?format=api", "name": "Sierra Nevada Corporation", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SNC", "description": "Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is an American, privately held aerospace and national security contractor specializing in aircraft modification and integration, high performance space components and systems, and commercial solutions. The company contracts with the United States Armed Forces, NASA and private spaceflight companies.", "administrator": "CEO: Fatih Ozmen", "founding_year": "1963", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sierra_nevada_c_image_20200821083933.jpeg" }, "in_use": true, "capability": "Cargo transportation to and from the ISS.", "history": "The Dream Chaser Cargo System is an American reusable lifting body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space System, to be produced after the cargo variant is operational, is capable of carrying up to seven people and cargo to and from low Earth orbit.", "details": "The cargo Dream Chaser will resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. It will be launched vertically on the Vulcan Centaur rocket, and autonomously land horizontally on conventional runways.", "maiden_flight": null, "height": null, "diameter": null, "human_rated": false, "crew_capacity": 7, "payload_capacity": 5000, "flight_life": "Multiple months", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/dream_chaser_image_20200821084247.jpeg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser", "info_link": "https://www.sncorp.com/what-we-do/dream-chaser-space-vehicle/" } }, "docking_events": [] } }, "mission": { "id": 6519, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Dream Chaser CRS 2 Flight 1", "description": "First flight of the Dream Chaser Spaceplane to the ISS.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Resupply", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 29, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/29/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Space Launch Complex 41", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Space_Launch_Complex_41", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.58341025,-80.58303644", "latitude": "28.58341025", "longitude": "-80.58303644", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1020, "total_landing_count": 64 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_29_20200803143528.jpg", "total_launch_count": 115 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "image": null, "infographic": null, "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. 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