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/cdfd242c-c01b-48b1-9fae-4b78d6ee449e/?format=api
{ "id": "cdfd242c-c01b-48b1-9fae-4b78d6ee449e", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/cdfd242c-c01b-48b1-9fae-4b78d6ee449e/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1260, "slug": "falcon-9-block-4-iridium-6-grace-fo", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 4 | Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2018-05-22T19:47:58Z", "window_end": "2018-05-22T19:47:58Z", "window_start": "2018-05-22T19:47:58Z", "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": 2105, "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": 55, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 2, "launcher": { "id": 50, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/50/?format=api", "details": "Stage Expended", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1043", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/50_image_20190226084234.jpeg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2018-05-22T19:47:58Z", "first_launch_date": "2018-01-08T01:00:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 93, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "Booster was expended after its second flight.", "location": { "id": 18, "name": "Pacific Ocean", "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 53 }, "type": { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" } }, "previous_flight_date": "2018-01-08T01:00:00Z", "turn_around_time_days": 134, "previous_flight": { "id": "2cf36ccb-c757-4951-aaaa-a35605ddb56f", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 4 | Zuma" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 458, "launch_library_id": 600, "name": "Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO", "description": "SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 10 satellites to low Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications. This is the sixth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium® NEXT.\nSharing this launch is the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on mission, which is a joint project of NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences. It's goal is to track Earth's water movement to monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in large lakes and rivers, soil moisture, ice sheets and glaciers, and sea level caused by the addition of water to the ocean.", "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": "GRACE-FO Launches Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9", "description": "The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO) spacecraft launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 22, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. 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