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/a9fa3ed5-4988-4a72-b262-454e7b03ab50/?format=api
{ "id": "a9fa3ed5-4988-4a72-b262-454e7b03ab50", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/a9fa3ed5-4988-4a72-b262-454e7b03ab50/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-koreasat-6a", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Koreasat 6A", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2024-11-11T17:22:00Z", "window_end": "2024-11-11T21:07:00Z", "window_start": "2024-11-11T17:07:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 70, "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": 118, "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": 8058, "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": 118, "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": 105 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 597, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 23, "launcher": { "id": 101, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/101/?format=api", "details": "Falcon 9 Block 5 booster first used for the CRS-22 mission.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1067", "status": "active", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/b1067_on_slc-40_image_20240407145708.jpeg", "successful_landings": 28, "attempted_landings": 28, "flights": 28, "last_launch_date": "2025-05-13T05:02:20Z", "first_launch_date": "2021-06-03T17:29:15Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1476, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Falcon 9 first stage B1067 has landed back at the launch site after its 23rd flight.", "location": { "id": 4, "name": "Landing Zone 1", "abbrev": "LZ-1", "description": "LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13", "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": 1023, "total_landing_count": 64 }, "successful_landings": 51 }, "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": "2024-09-17T22:50:49Z", "turn_around_time_days": 54, "previous_flight": { "id": "b9c44ac9-e201-4042-9f08-bd517cd2e6a5", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32)" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6611, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Koreasat 6A", "description": "The Koreasat 6A spacecraft, built by Thales Alenia Space, will have 20 transponders for fixed satellite services and six for TV broadcasting to replace the Koreasat 6 launched in 2010.\r\n\r\nKoreasat 6A will be based on the manufacturer’s Spacebus 4000B2 platform and is expected to weigh about 3.5 metric tons at launch. It will be designed to operate for at least 15 years.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Communications", "orbit": { "id": 2, "name": "Geostationary Transfer Orbit", "abbrev": "GTO" } }, "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. 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