Launch Instance
AN 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', 'is_crewed', 'include_suborbital', 'spacecraft_config__ids',
'related', 'location__ids', 'lsp__ids', 'pad__ids', 'status__ids'
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 /2.2.0/launch/00190507-4918-491a-aa73-0e151775fada/?format=api
{ "id": "00190507-4918-491a-aa73-0e151775fada", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/00190507-4918-491a-aa73-0e151775fada/?format=api", "slug": "long-march-2d-xihe-chase", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Long March 2D | Xihe (CHASE)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T03:42:39Z", "updates": [ { "id": 881, "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4692280419551851", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2021-10-14T11:23:12Z" }, { "id": 868, "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs and public reports - note high uncertainty of assigning payload/rocket with the specific launch notice.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54886.msg2299287#msg2299287", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2021-10-12T10:10:47Z" } ], "net": "2021-10-14T10:51:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2021-10-14T11:12:00Z", "window_start": "2021-10-14T10:44:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 472, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 458, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 6, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 2717, "configuration": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/17/?format=api", "name": "Long March 2D", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "The Long March 2D, also known as the Chang Zheng 2D, CZ-2D and LM-2D, is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It is a 2-stage carrier rocket mainly used for launching LEO and SSO satellites.", "family": "Long March", "full_name": "Long March 2D", "manufacturer": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 472, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 458, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 6, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "2D", "alias": "", "min_stage": 1, "max_stage": 2, "length": 38.3, "diameter": 3.35, "maiden_flight": "1992-08-09", "launch_cost": "30000000", "launch_mass": 232, "leo_capacity": 3500, "gto_capacity": 0, "to_thrust": 2962, "apogee": 500, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long2520march25202d_image_20190222031211.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_(rocket_family)", "total_launch_count": 85, "consecutive_successful_launches": 53, "successful_launches": 84, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 5875, "name": "Xihe (CHASE)", "description": "Xihe, also known as the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the satellite is an Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS), which can, for the first time, acquire full-disk spectroscopic solar observations in the Hα waveband. It will complement the observations by on-orbit solar spacecraft (such as SDO, IRIS, STEREO and PSP), as well as future solar missions of the Solar Orbiter and the Chinese Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S).\r\nMission is named Xihe after a solar deity from Chinese mythology.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Heliophysics", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 25, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/25/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Launch Complex 9", "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=38.863128,111.589567", "latitude": "38.863128", "longitude": "111.589567", "location": { "id": 19, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/19/?format=api", "name": "Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "", "map_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/launch_images/location_19_20200803142421.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 126, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/launch_images/pad_25_20200803143501.jpg", "total_launch_count": 71, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 71 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "Long March-2D launches Xihe and 10 small satellites", "description": "A Long March-2D launch vehicle launched the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE) and 10 small satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Provin...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6ntqA5YNKkg/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ntqA5YNKkg", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long2520march25202d_image_20190222031211.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6124, "location_launch_attempt_count": 98, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 54, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 338, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 98, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 9, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 6, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 34, "pad_turnaround": "P37DT7H50M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 94, "name": "CHASE Mission Patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/chase2520missi_mission_patch_20211014123340.png", "agency": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "type": "Government" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
