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/ccbd07da-d3c7-4b22-a5ee-cb190f6e06b0/?format=api
{ "id": "ccbd07da-d3c7-4b22-a5ee-cb190f6e06b0", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/ccbd07da-d3c7-4b22-a5ee-cb190f6e06b0/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 2001, "slug": "vega-c-biomass", "name": "Vega-C | Biomass", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2025-04-29T09:15:52Z", "window_end": "2025-04-29T09:15:52Z", "window_start": "2025-04-29T09:15:52Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 115, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/115/?format=api", "name": "Arianespace", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "FRA", "abbrev": "ASA", "description": "Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.", "administrator": "CEO: David Cavaillolès", "founding_year": "1980", "launchers": "Ariane | Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 319, "consecutive_successful_launches": 7, "successful_launches": 304, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 48, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.arianespace.com", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/arianespace_logo_20210603173752.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ariane_62_on_el_image_20240708201807.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/arianespace_nation_20230530190314.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2571, "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": 1054, "launch_library_id": 1252, "name": "Biomass", "description": "Biomass is an European Space Agency mission designed to measure the density of carbon stored in the world's forests. The spacecraft, built by Airbus Defence and Space, features the first civilian P-band synthetic aperture radar as well as a 12m-diameter deployable reflector from L3Harris made of over 900 km of gold-coated molybdenum 25µm wire.\r\nWith a minimum operational lifetime of 5 years in its 666km 6am/6pm sun-synchronous orbit, the global coverage achieved every 9 months allows to precisely monitor the evolution of forests over time.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" } }, "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": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Vega C Flight VV26", "description": "Allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Without these cookies, we will not be able to gather accurate data in order to identify ...", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://newsroom.arianespace.com/vega-c-flight-vv26" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Flight VV26 | Biomass | Vega C | Arianespace", "description": "On Tuesday April 29th, 2025, at 6:15 a.m. local time (09:15 a.m. UTC, 11:15 a.m. CEST), Arianespace successfully launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer Biomass satellite from Europe...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EEhmFO_Y_WE/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhmFO_Y_WE" }, { "priority": 11, "title": "Vol VV26 | Biomass | Vega C | Arianespace", "description": "Le mardi 29 avril 2025 à 06h15 heure locale (09h15 UTC, 11h15 CET), Arianespace a lancé avec succès le satellite Biomass du programme Earth Explorer de l’Agence spatiale européenne (ESA) à bord d’une ...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g0UP77VUpqE/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0UP77VUpqE" }, { "priority": 12, "title": "Volo VV26 | Biomass | Vega C I Arianespace", "description": "Martedì 29 aprile 2025, alle 6:15 ora locale (09:15 UTC, 11:15 CEST), Arianespace lancerà il satellite di esplorazione della Terra Biomass dell'Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA) dallo spazioporto europeo...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xIvpiMRFEz4/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvpiMRFEz4" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "infographic": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/infographic_images/vega-c2520257_infographic_20250211185656.png", "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6941, "location_launch_attempt_count": 325, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 52, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 319, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 92, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2 }
