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/b8173cec-0f32-4268-bbb6-af7bab0be436/?format=api
{ "id": "b8173cec-0f32-4268-bbb6-af7bab0be436", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/b8173cec-0f32-4268-bbb6-af7bab0be436/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1934, "slug": "vega-c-lares-2-maiden-flight", "name": "Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2022-07-13T13:13:17Z", "window_end": "2022-07-13T13:13:17Z", "window_start": "2022-07-13T13:13:17Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 27, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "featured": false, "type": "Multinational", "country_code": "FRA,ITA,DEU,ESP,CHE,GBR,AUT,SWE,BEL,PRT,NLD,HUN,POL,DNK,CZE,ROU,NOR,FIN,GRC,EST,IRL,LUX,SVN", "abbrev": "ESA", "description": "The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees.\r\n\r\nESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.", "administrator": "Director General: Josef Aschbacher", "founding_year": "1975", "launchers": "Ariane | Vega", "spacecraft": "Space Rider", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 7, "consecutive_successful_launches": 5, "successful_launches": 6, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.esa.int/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/european2520space2520agency_logo_20221130101442.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/esa_patch_float_image_20250211192109.png", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/european2520space2520agency_logo_20221130101442.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 2471, "configuration": { "id": 127, "launch_library_id": 163, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/127/?format=api", "name": "Vega-C", "description": "Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.", "family": "Vega", "full_name": "Vega-C", "manufacturer": { "id": 159, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/159/?format=api", "name": "Avio S.p.A", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "ITA", "abbrev": "Avio", "description": "Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.", "administrator": "CEO: Giulio Ranzo", "founding_year": "1908", "launchers": "Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 3, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.avio.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avio", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio2520s.p.a_logo_20221130103121.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio_social_log_image_20250211190007.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 35.0, "diameter": 3.0, "maiden_flight": "2022-07-13", "launch_mass": 210, "leo_capacity": 3300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 2974, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "info_url": "http://www.arianespace.com/vehicle/vega/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(rocket)", "total_launch_count": 4, "consecutive_successful_launches": 2, "successful_launches": 3, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 23 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6086, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "LARES-2 (Maiden flight)", "description": "Maiden flight of the Vega-C launch vehicle, carrying the LARES-2 passive satellite. It is a 40 cm diameter sphere with laser mirrors to study the Earth gravitational field and relativistic effects. Also onboard are six European research cubesats.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 12, "name": "Medium Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "MEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 34, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/34/?format=api", "agency_id": 115, "name": "Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELA-1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=5.236,-52.775", "latitude": "5.236", "longitude": "-52.775", "location": { "id": 13, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/13/?format=api", "name": "Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana", "country_code": "GUF", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_13_20200803142412.jpg", "total_launch_count": 325, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_34_20200803143527.jpg", "total_launch_count": 52 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 9, "title": "Vega-C launch", "description": "The inaugural flight of ESA’s new Vega-C rocket is set for 13 July at 13:13 CEST. The principal payload of flight VV21 is LARES-2, a scientific mission of th...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_uXUM6xC0Vk/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXUM6xC0Vk" }, { "priority": 10, "title": "Vega-C launch (operational audio only)", "description": "The inaugural flight of ESA’s new Vega-C rocket is set for 13 July at 13:13 CEST. 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