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/c0dc723a-2322-4986-97d6-f64877aec846/?format=api
{ "id": "c0dc723a-2322-4986-97d6-f64877aec846", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/c0dc723a-2322-4986-97d6-f64877aec846/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "firefly-alpha-incus", "name": "Firefly Alpha | INCUS", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "TBD" }, "net": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "window_end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": true, "tbddate": true, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 265, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/265/?format=api", "name": "Firefly Aerospace", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "FA", "description": "Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Schumacher", "founding_year": "2014", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 6, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 3, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://firefly.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/firefly2520aerospace_logo_20220826094423.jpg", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/firefly2520aerospace_nation_20230531050520.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8548, "configuration": { "id": 179, "launch_library_id": 216, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/179/?format=api", "name": "Firefly Alpha", "description": "Firefly Alpha (Firefly α) is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle developed by the American aerospace company Firefly Aerospace to cover the commercial small satellite launch market. Alpha is intended to provide launch options for both full vehicle and ride share customers.", "family": "", "full_name": "Firefly Alpha", "manufacturer": { "id": 265, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/265/?format=api", "name": "Firefly Aerospace", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "FA", "description": "Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Schumacher", "founding_year": "2014", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 6, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 3, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://firefly.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/firefly2520aerospace_logo_20220826094423.jpg", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/firefly2520aerospace_nation_20230531050520.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 29.0, "diameter": 1.82, "maiden_flight": "2021-09-03", "launch_mass": 54, "leo_capacity": 1000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 736, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/firefly_alpha_l_image_20240605174156.jpeg", "info_url": "https://fireflyspace.com/alpha/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Alpha", "total_launch_count": 6, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 3, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 4 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7139, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "INCUS", "description": "The Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) is a NASA Earth science mission led by Colorado State University that will investigate the behavior of tropical storms in order to better represent these storms in weather and climate models. It consists of 3 SmallSats flying in tight coordination to study why convective storms, heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form. \r\n\r\nEach satellite will have a high frequency precipitation radar that observes rapid changes in convective cloud depth and intensities. 1 of the 3 satellites also will carry a microwave radiometer to provide the spatial content of the larger scale weather observed by the radars. By flying so closely together, the satellites will use the slight differences in when they make observations to apply a novel time-differencing approach to estimate the vertical transport of convective mass.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 76, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/76/?format=api", "agency_id": 44, "name": "Launch Area 0 A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Regional_Spaceport_Launch_Pad_0#Pad_0A", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=37.8337,-75.4881", "latitude": "37.8337", "longitude": "-75.4881", "location": { "id": 21, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/21/?format=api", "name": "Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_21_20200803142423.jpg", "total_launch_count": 80, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_76_20200803143538.jpg", "total_launch_count": 19 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/firefly_alpha_l_image_20240605174156.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7142, "location_launch_attempt_count": 91, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 22, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 10, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 29, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2 }
