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/aa88b853-9e04-4a28-9433-d87799331b1b/?format=api
{ "id": "aa88b853-9e04-4a28-9433-d87799331b1b", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/aa88b853-9e04-4a28-9433-d87799331b1b/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1695, "slug": "falcon-heavy-ussf-44", "name": "Falcon Heavy | USSF-44", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2022-11-01T13:41:00Z", "window_end": "2022-11-01T14:11:00Z", "window_start": "2022-11-01T13:41:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 95, "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": 513, "consecutive_successful_launches": 36, "successful_launches": 499, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 118, "consecutive_successful_landings": 82, "successful_landings": 460, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 485, "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": 2220, "configuration": { "id": 161, "launch_library_id": 58, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/161/?format=api", "name": "Falcon Heavy", "description": "The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon Heavy", "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": 513, "consecutive_successful_launches": 36, "successful_launches": 499, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 118, "consecutive_successful_landings": 82, "successful_landings": 460, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 485, "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": [], "variant": "Heavy", "alias": "", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 70.0, "diameter": 12.2, "maiden_flight": "2018-02-06", "launch_mass": 1400, "leo_capacity": 63800, "gto_capacity": 26700, "to_thrust": 22819, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_heavy_image_20220129192819.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-heavy/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy", "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 11, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 11 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 150, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 87, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/87/?format=api", "details": "Stage Expended", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1066", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/87_image_20221102112720.jpeg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2022-11-01T13:41:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2022-11-01T13:41:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 181, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "B1066 was expended.", "location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 37 }, "type": { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null }, { "id": 152, "type": "Strap-On Booster", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 86, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/86/?format=api", "details": "Side booster paired with B1064, launched 3 USSF missions, EchoStar 24 and the Psyche mission before expended during launch of Europa Clipper.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1065", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/85_image_20221102112709.jpeg", "successful_landings": 5, "attempted_landings": 5, "flights": 6, "last_launch_date": "2024-10-14T16:06:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2022-11-01T13:41:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 182, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "B1065 has successfully landed on LZ-2 after its first flight.", "location": { "id": 5, "name": "Landing Zone 2", "abbrev": "LZ-2", "description": "LZ-2 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13. Directly next to LZ-1", "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": 1025, "total_landing_count": 64 }, "successful_landings": 12 }, "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 }, { "id": 151, "type": "Strap-On Booster", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 85, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/85/?format=api", "details": "Side booster paired with B1065, launched 3 USSF missions, EchoStar 24 and the Psyche mission before expended during launch of Europa Clipper.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1064", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/85_image_20221102112709.jpeg", "successful_landings": 5, "attempted_landings": 5, "flights": 6, "last_launch_date": "2024-10-14T16:06:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2022-11-01T13:41:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 183, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "B1064 has successfully landed on LZ-1 after its first 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": 1025, "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": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 5869, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "USSF-44", "description": "Classified US Space Force carrying two payloads directly to geostationary orbit. One is called the Shepherd Demonstration, and the other is LDPE 2 spacecraft that carries three hosted payloads and three deployable sub-satellites. One of them is an experimental microsatellite called TETRA-1.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 1, "name": "Geostationary Orbit", "abbrev": "Direct-GEO" } }, "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/ussf-44/index.html" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "USSF-44 Mission", "description": "SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ET (13:41 UTC) for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the USSF-44 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Lau...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pY628jRd6gM/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY628jRd6gM" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon2520heav_image_20230723153005.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6331, "location_launch_attempt_count": 209, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 152, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 202, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 149, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 15, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 15, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 50 }
