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/ef9b458b-bebf-4eb6-b970-8d77998616f3/?format=api
{ "id": "ef9b458b-bebf-4eb6-b970-8d77998616f3", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/ef9b458b-bebf-4eb6-b970-8d77998616f3/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "starship-flight-9", "name": "Starship | Flight 9", "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": 119, "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": 8567, "configuration": { "id": 464, "launch_library_id": null, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/464/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "description": "Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "family": "Starship", "full_name": "Starship", "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": 119, "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": [ { "id": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/1/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starship", "description": "The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.", "agencies": [ { "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/spacex2520star_program_20201129204513.png", "start_date": "2019-03-01T05:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship" } ], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 120.0, "diameter": 9.0, "maiden_flight": "2023-04-20", "launch_mass": 5000, "leo_capacity": 100000, "gto_capacity": 21000, "to_thrust": 72000, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_liftof_image_20240314160301.jpg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 4, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 3 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 721, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 2, "launcher": { "id": 189, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/189/?format=api", "details": "Super Heavy booster used for the seventh Starship flight test. Successfully caught by the launch tower.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "Booster 14", "status": "active", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_booste_image_20250221071829.jpg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2025-01-16T22:37:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2025-01-16T22:37:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1602, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "Super Heavy Booster 14-2 will attempt to be caught by the tower on the OLM-A.", "location": { "id": 39, "name": "Orbital Launch Mount A", "abbrev": "OLM-A", "description": "", "location": { "id": 143, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "total_launch_count": 17, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "successful_landings": 3 }, "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": "2025-01-16T22:37:00Z", "turn_around_time_days": 348, "previous_flight": { "id": "c5566f6e-606e-4250-b8f4-477c5d82c798", "name": "Starship | Flight 7" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7158, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Flight 9", "description": "9th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub" } }, "pad": { "id": 188, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/188/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Orbital Launch Mount A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starbase#Launch_site_(Orbital_Launch_Pad_A_and_B)", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=25.9962,-97.154423", "latitude": "25.9962", "longitude": "-97.154423", "location": { "id": 143, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "total_launch_count": 17, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_orbital_launch_mount_a_20210514061342.jpg", "total_launch_count": 8 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_on_the_image_20250111100520.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/1/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starship", "description": "The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.", "agencies": [ { "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/spacex2520star_program_20201129204513.png", "start_date": "2019-03-01T05:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship" } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 18, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 9, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 553, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 104 }
