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/b8800f25-3b09-48de-895d-ec2fb7981c0f/?format=api
{ "id": "b8800f25-3b09-48de-895d-ec2fb7981c0f", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/b8800f25-3b09-48de-895d-ec2fb7981c0f/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1257, "slug": "falcon-9-block-4-iridium-3", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 4 | Iridium-3", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2017-10-09T12:37:01Z", "window_end": "2017-10-09T12:37:01Z", "window_start": "2017-10-09T12:37:01Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 90, "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": 714, "consecutive_successful_launches": 199, "successful_launches": 699, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 126, "consecutive_successful_landings": 6, "successful_landings": 657, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 685, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://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/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_social_l_image_20260407054626.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2035, "configuration": { "id": 145, "launch_library_id": 187, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/145/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "description": "The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 Block 4", "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": 714, "consecutive_successful_launches": 199, "successful_launches": 699, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 126, "consecutive_successful_landings": 6, "successful_landings": 657, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 685, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://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/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_social_l_image_20260407054626.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" } ], "variant": "Block 4", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 71.0, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2015-12-22", "launch_mass": 546, "leo_capacity": 22800, "gto_capacity": 8305, "to_thrust": 6804, "apogee": 197, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520block25204_image_20190222031140.jpeg", "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/falcon9", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_full_thrust", "total_launch_count": 12, "consecutive_successful_launches": 12, "successful_launches": 12, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 64, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 48, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/48/?format=api", "details": "Stage Expended", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1041", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/48_image_20190226083958.jpeg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2018-03-30T14:13:51Z", "first_launch_date": "2017-10-09T12:37:01Z" }, "landing": { "id": 102, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The first stage of the Falcon 9 landed on the ASDS, JRTI, stationed of the west coast.", "location": { "id": 3, "name": "Just Read the Instructions", "abbrev": "JRTI", "description": "Third (Marmac 303) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Atlantic Ocean.", "location": null, "successful_landings": 156 }, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship", "abbrev": "ASDS", "description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 443, "launch_library_id": 581, "name": "Iridium-3", "description": "SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 10 satellites to low Earth\norbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and\ndata satellite communications. This is the third set of 10\nsatellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will\nlaunch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite\nconstellation, Iridium® NEXT.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Communications", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/16/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Space Launch Complex 4E", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_Space_Launch_Complex_4#SLC-4E", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=34.632,-120.611", "latitude": "34.632", "longitude": "-120.611", "location": { "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/11/?format=api", "name": "Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_11_20200803142416.jpg", "total_launch_count": 904, "total_landing_count": 35 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_16_20200803143532.jpg", "total_launch_count": 288 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "title": "SpaceX Falcon 9 Iridium-3 Launch", "description": "Team Vandenberg supported the successful launch of 10 Iridium satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 on Monday, Oct. 9, at 5:37 a.m. PDT.\n\nhttps://www.dvidshub.net/video/55...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nEjq_kSJ9R4/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjq_kSJ9R4" }, { "priority": 0, "title": "Iridium-3 Mission", "description": "SpaceX is targeting launch of Iridium-3 from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 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