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/aed6a40f-012e-4b97-b701-d7a8c73edcfd/?format=api
{ "id": "aed6a40f-012e-4b97-b701-d7a8c73edcfd", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/aed6a40f-012e-4b97-b701-d7a8c73edcfd/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "long-march-8-queqiao-2", "name": "Long March 8 | Queqiao-2", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2024-03-20T00:31:28Z", "window_end": "2024-03-20T02:16:00Z", "window_start": "2024-03-20T00:21:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 523, "consecutive_successful_launches": 65, "successful_launches": 509, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 9, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 7839, "configuration": { "id": 462, "launch_library_id": null, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/462/?format=api", "name": "Long March 8", "description": "Long March 8 (Chinese: 长征八号运载火箭) is an orbital launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology to launch up to 5000 kg to a 700 km altitude Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The rocket is based on the Long March 7 with its first stage and 2 out of its 4 boosters, along with the existing liquid hydrogen burning 3rd stage of the Long March 3A/3B/3C and 7A as its 2nd stage.\r\n\r\nA \"Core Only\" version omitting the boosters is also available.", "family": "Long March", "full_name": "Long March 8", "manufacturer": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 523, "consecutive_successful_launches": 65, "successful_launches": 509, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 9, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "8", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 50.34, "diameter": 3.35, "maiden_flight": "2020-12-22", "launch_mass": 356, "leo_capacity": 8100, "gto_capacity": 2800, "to_thrust": 4800, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cz-8_liftoff_2_image_20240315183218.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_8", "total_launch_count": 3, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 3, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 1 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6346, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Queqiao-2", "description": "Queqiao-2 is a Chinese artificial satellite to serve as a communications relay for future Chinese lunar far side missions that cannot communicate directly with the Earth, beginning with the Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission in 2024.\r\n\r\nIt will operate from a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) of the Moon.\r\n\r\nThe launch also carries the Tiandu-1 & 2 small satellites testing cis-lunar space navigation and inter-satellite communication techniques for CNSA’s Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL).", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Planetary Science", "orbit": { "id": 11, "name": "Lunar Orbit", "abbrev": "LO" } }, "pad": { "id": 176, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/176/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "201", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenchang_Spacecraft_Launch_Site", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=19.618452,110.955356", "latitude": "19.618452", "longitude": "110.955356", "location": { "id": 8, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/8/?format=api", "name": "Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_8_20200803142445.jpg", "total_launch_count": 38, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_176_20200803143412.jpg", "total_launch_count": 22 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 9, "title": "Queqiao-2 launch", "description": "The Long March-8 Y3 launch vehicle (长征八号遥三) launched the Queqiao-2 relay satellite (鹊桥二号中继星, Magpie Bridge-2) from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, Haina...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pgT7UjLU29o/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgT7UjLU29o" }, { "priority": 10, "title": "微博直播", "description": "", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/show/1022:2321325013736531558655" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cz-8_liftoff_2_image_20240320175819.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 18, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/18/?format=api", "name": "Chinese Lunar Exploration Program", "description": "The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program also known as the Chang'e Project after the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e, is an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). 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