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/d3bd7fb2-fac6-49fc-ae52-cee07d2fde67/?format=api
{ "id": "d3bd7fb2-fac6-49fc-ae52-cee07d2fde67", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/d3bd7fb2-fac6-49fc-ae52-cee07d2fde67/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-heavy-griffin-mission-one", "name": "Falcon Heavy | Griffin Mission One", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "TBD" }, "net": "2025-12-31T00:00:00Z", "window_end": "2025-12-31T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-31T00:00:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": true, "tbddate": true, "probability": null, "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": 503, "consecutive_successful_launches": 26, "successful_launches": 489, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 120, "consecutive_successful_landings": 72, "successful_landings": 450, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 475, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://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/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2853, "configuration": { "id": 161, "launch_library_id": 58, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/161/?format=api", "name": "Falcon Heavy", "description": "The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon Heavy", "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": 503, "consecutive_successful_launches": 26, "successful_launches": 489, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 120, "consecutive_successful_landings": 72, "successful_landings": 450, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 475, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://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/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "Heavy", "alias": "", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 70.0, "diameter": 12.2, "maiden_flight": "2018-02-06", "launch_mass": 1400, "leo_capacity": 63800, "gto_capacity": 26700, "to_thrust": 22819, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_heavy_image_20220129192819.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-heavy/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy", "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 11, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 11 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 419, "type": "Strap-On Booster", "reused": null, "launcher_flight_number": null, "launcher": { "id": 117, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/117/?format=api", "details": "Booster serial number unknown.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "Unknown FH", "status": "N/A", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/117_image_20230723180948.png", "successful_landings": null, "attempted_landings": null, "flights": null, "last_launch_date": null, "first_launch_date": null }, "landing": { "id": 1216, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "the sidebooster will attempt to land at the launch site after launch.", "location": { "id": 5, "name": "Landing Zone 2", "abbrev": "LZ-2", "description": "LZ-2 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13. Directly next to LZ-1", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1020, "total_landing_count": 64 }, "successful_landings": 12 }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", "description": "A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null }, { "id": 418, "type": "Strap-On Booster", "reused": null, "launcher_flight_number": null, "launcher": { "id": 117, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/117/?format=api", "details": "Booster serial number unknown.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "Unknown FH", "status": "N/A", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/117_image_20230723180948.png", "successful_landings": null, "attempted_landings": null, "flights": null, "last_launch_date": null, "first_launch_date": null }, "landing": { "id": 1215, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "the sidebooster will attempt to land at the launch site after launch.", "location": { "id": 4, "name": "Landing Zone 1", "abbrev": "LZ-1", "description": "LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1020, "total_landing_count": 64 }, "successful_landings": 51 }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", "description": "A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null }, { "id": 417, "type": "Core", "reused": null, "launcher_flight_number": null, "launcher": { "id": 117, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/117/?format=api", "details": "Booster serial number unknown.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "Unknown FH", "status": "N/A", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/117_image_20230723180948.png", "successful_landings": null, "attempted_landings": null, "flights": null, "last_launch_date": null, "first_launch_date": null }, "landing": { "id": 1214, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "The center core will attempt to land on an ASDS after launch.", "location": { "id": 12, "name": "Unknown", "abbrev": "N/A", "description": null, "location": null, "successful_landings": 0 }, "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": 1267, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Griffin Mission One", "description": "Demonstration flight of the Astrobotic Griffin lander and its engines, initially contracted for the cancelled NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission. The vacated payload spot will now host the FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) lunar rover from Astrolab.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Lunar Exploration", "orbit": { "id": 11, "name": "Lunar Orbit", "abbrev": "LO" } }, "pad": { "id": 87, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/87/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Launch Complex 39A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39#Launch_Pad_39A", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.60822681,-80.60428186", "latitude": "28.60822681", "longitude": "-80.60428186", "location": { "id": 27, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/27/?format=api", "name": "Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_27_20200803142447.jpg", "total_launch_count": 264, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_87_20200803143537.jpg", "total_launch_count": 206 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_heavy_image_20220129192819.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7113, "location_launch_attempt_count": 266, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 208, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 553, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 264, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 14, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 14, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 104 }
