Launch Instance
API endpoint that returns all Launch objects or a single launch.
EXAMPLE - /launch/<id>/ or /launch/?mode=list&search=SpaceX
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/d9e2152f-94f3-46b3-b7cb-be0a923f0e25/?format=api
{ "id": "d9e2152f-94f3-46b3-b7cb-be0a923f0e25", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/d9e2152f-94f3-46b3-b7cb-be0a923f0e25/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 985, "slug": "saturn-v-apollo-16", "name": "Saturn V | Apollo 16", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z", "window_end": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z", "window_start": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": -1, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NASA", "description": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "administrator": "Administrator: Bill Nelson", "founding_year": "1958", "launchers": "Space Shuttle | SLS", "spacecraft": "Orion", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 135, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 115, "failed_launches": 20, "pending_launches": 6, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.nasa.gov", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_logo_20190207032448.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_image_20190207032448.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_nation_20230803040809.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 235, "configuration": { "id": 93, "launch_library_id": 136, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/93/?format=api", "name": "Saturn V", "description": "The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.", "family": "Saturn", "full_name": "Saturn V", "manufacturer": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NASA", "description": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "administrator": "Administrator: Bill Nelson", "founding_year": "1958", "launchers": "Space Shuttle | SLS", "spacecraft": "Orion", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 135, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 115, "failed_launches": 20, "pending_launches": 6, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.nasa.gov", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_logo_20190207032448.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_image_20190207032448.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_nation_20230803040809.jpg" }, "program": [ { "id": 4, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/4/?format=api", "name": "Apollo", "description": "The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" } ], "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/apollo_program_20200820200202.png", "start_date": "1966-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1972-12-19T19:24:59Z", "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" } ], "variant": "V", "alias": "", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 110.6, "diameter": 10.1, "maiden_flight": "1967-11-09", "launch_mass": 2970, "leo_capacity": 140000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 35100, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/saturn2520v_image_20190222030036.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V", "total_launch_count": 13, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 12, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 32, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/32/?format=api", "mission_end": "1972-04-27T17:54:00Z", "destination": "Lunar Orbit where the LM would detach and land on the Moon.", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 981, "role": "Commander", "astronaut": { "id": 32, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/32/?format=api", "name": "John Young", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1930-09-24", "date_of_death": "2018-01-05", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions (with seven launches, counting his lunar liftoff) over the course of 42 years of active NASA service. He is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.\r\n\r\nIn 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969 during Apollo 10, he became the first person to fly solo around the Moon. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974 to 1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004. He died on January 5, 2018.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/john2520young_image_20190426143657.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)", "last_flight": "1983-11-28T16:00:00Z", "first_flight": "1965-03-23T14:24:00Z" } }, { "id": 983, "role": "Command Module Pilot", "astronaut": { "id": 311, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/311/?format=api", "name": "Ken Mattingly", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1936-03-17", "date_of_death": "2023-10-31", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II better known as Ken Mattingly, is a former American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. He had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13, but was held back due to concerns about a potential illness (which he did not contract). He later flew as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 16, making him one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ken_mattingly_image_20231103055657.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mattingly", "last_flight": "1985-01-24T13:04:27Z", "first_flight": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z" } }, { "id": 984, "role": "Lunar Module Pilot", "astronaut": { "id": 304, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/304/?format=api", "name": "Charles Duke", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1935-10-03", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Charles Moss \"Charlie\" Duke Jr. is an American former astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and test pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon.\r\n\r\nDuke has logged 4,147 hours flying time, which includes 3,632 hours in jet aircraft; and 265 hours in space, plus 20 hours and 15 minutes of extravehicular activity.\r\n\r\nA resident of New Braunfels, Texas, he is currently chairman of the board of directors of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/charles_duke_image_20220911033709.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duke", "last_flight": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z", "first_flight": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 978, "role": "Commander", "astronaut": { "id": 32, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/32/?format=api", "name": "John Young", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1930-09-24", "date_of_death": "2018-01-05", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions (with seven launches, counting his lunar liftoff) over the course of 42 years of active NASA service. He is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.\r\n\r\nIn 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969 during Apollo 10, he became the first person to fly solo around the Moon. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974 to 1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004. He died on January 5, 2018.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/john2520young_image_20190426143657.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)", "last_flight": "1983-11-28T16:00:00Z", "first_flight": "1965-03-23T14:24:00Z" } }, { "id": 55, "role": "Command Module Pilot", "astronaut": { "id": 311, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/311/?format=api", "name": "Ken Mattingly", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1936-03-17", "date_of_death": "2023-10-31", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II better known as Ken Mattingly, is a former American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. He had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13, but was held back due to concerns about a potential illness (which he did not contract). He later flew as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 16, making him one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ken_mattingly_image_20231103055657.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mattingly", "last_flight": "1985-01-24T13:04:27Z", "first_flight": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z" } }, { "id": 56, "role": "Lunar Module Pilot", "astronaut": { "id": 304, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/304/?format=api", "name": "Charles Duke", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1935-10-03", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Charles Moss \"Charlie\" Duke Jr. is an American former astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and test pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon.\r\n\r\nDuke has logged 4,147 hours flying time, which includes 3,632 hours in jet aircraft; and 265 hours in space, plus 20 hours and 15 minutes of extravehicular activity.\r\n\r\nA resident of New Braunfels, Texas, he is currently chairman of the board of directors of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/charles_duke_image_20220911033709.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duke", "last_flight": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z", "first_flight": "1972-04-16T17:54:00Z" } } ], "spacecraft": { "id": 34, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/34/?format=api", "name": "Apollo Casper CSM-113", "serial_number": "CSM-113", "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "CSM-113 \"Casper\" was an Apollo Command & Service Module used in the Apollo 16 mission.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/spacecraft/10/?format=api", "name": "Apollo Command/Service Module", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "id": 999, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/999/?format=api", "name": "North American Aviation", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "", "description": "North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo command and service module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": "1928", "launchers": "North American X-15", "spacecraft": "", "parent": "Boeing", "image_url": null }, "in_use": false, "capability": "Cargo and Human Transportation to Lunar Orbit", "history": "The Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.", "details": "The Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. 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