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/163c666e-6c61-4e10-8110-6d3c33d965f6/?format=api
{ "id": "163c666e-6c61-4e10-8110-6d3c33d965f6", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/163c666e-6c61-4e10-8110-6d3c33d965f6/?format=api", "slug": "zhuque-3-demo-flight", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Zhuque-3 | Demo Flight", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-12-04T05:20:02Z", "updates": [ { "id": 13120, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success, first stage failed to land.", "info_url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5239764807848537", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-03T06:20:00Z" }, { "id": 13108, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET December 3 per NOTAMs.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2739310#msg2739310", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-02T01:59:00Z" }, { "id": 13090, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch.", "info_url": "https://spacenews.com/china-set-for-first-orbital-launch-and-landing-attempt-this-weekend-with-commercial-zhuque-3-rocket/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-01T16:44:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-12-03T04:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-12-03T04:49:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-03T03:52:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 259, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/259/?format=api", "name": "LandSpace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "LS", "description": "LandSpace is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing. It was founded in 2015 by Tsinghua University alumni Zhang Changwu.", "administrator": "Founder: Zhang Changwu", "founding_year": "2015", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 5, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandSpace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/landspace_logo_20220822100731.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/landspace_nation_20230702184353.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8821, "configuration": { "id": 539, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/539/?format=api", "name": "Zhuque-3", "active": true, "reusable": true, "description": "Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) is a reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Chinese private company LandSpace. The rocket is built using stainless steel and shares the same series of gas generator cycle methane/liquid oxygen powered rocket engines as in the currently active ZQ-2E rocket.\r\n\r\nThe first stage uses 9 TQ-12 engines (initially the TQ-12A, then upgraded TQ-12B) while the second stage uses 1 TQ-15 engine (TQ-15A, then TQ-15B).\r\n\r\nOn launch missions where the first stage is recovered, it will land on a down-range landing pad located in Minqin County, Gansu Province.", "family": "Zhuque", "full_name": "Zhuque-3", "manufacturer": { "id": 259, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/259/?format=api", "name": "LandSpace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "LS", "description": "LandSpace is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing. It was founded in 2015 by Tsinghua University alumni Zhang Changwu.", "administrator": "Founder: Zhang Changwu", "founding_year": "2015", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 5, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandSpace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/landspace_logo_20220822100731.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/landspace_nation_20230702184353.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "ZQ-3", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 76.6, "diameter": 4.5, "maiden_flight": "2025-12-03", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 660, "leo_capacity": 21300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 9000, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/zq-3_flight_1_l_image_20251203064230.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuque-3", "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 1, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 1, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 852, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 245, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/245/?format=api", "details": "First stage booster used on the 1st flight of LandSpace's Zhuque-3 rocket. Booster attempted to land downrange on its dedicated landing pad, but impacted the edge of the pad following an abnormal landing burn.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "ZQ-3 F1", "status": "destroyed", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/zq-3_flight_1_l_image_20251203064230.jpg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2025-12-03T04:00:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2025-12-03T04:00:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1747, "attempt": true, "success": false, "description": "The Zhuque-3 first stage booster executed its re-entry burn normally, but the landing burn was abnormal and the booster crashed next to its downrange landing pad on its landing attempt.", "downrange_distance": 390.0, "location": { "id": 60, "name": "Zhuque-3 Landing Site", "abbrev": "ZQ-3 LZ", "description": "Landing site for first stage boosters of LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 rocket at Minqin County, Gansu Province, China.", "location": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/17/?format=api", "name": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese spaceport located between the Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia and Hangtian Town, Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu Province. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City (Base 10).", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_17_20200803142429.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 275, "total_landing_count": 2 }, "successful_landings": 0 }, "type": { "id": 9, "name": "Vertical Landing", "abbrev": "VL", "description": "Vertical landing using engines" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7412, "name": "Demo Flight", "description": "First test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 243, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/243/?format=api", "agency_id": 259, "name": "Launch Area 96B", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuque-3", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.92017,100.25129", "latitude": "40.92017", "longitude": "100.25129", "location": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/17/?format=api", "name": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese spaceport located between the Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia and Hangtian Town, Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu Province. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City (Base 10).", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_17_20200803142429.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 275, "total_landing_count": 2 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_launch_area_96b_20251128220544.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 1 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/zq-3_flight_1_l_image_20251203064230.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7138, "location_launch_attempt_count": 267, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 8, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 289, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 28, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_turnaround": "P0D", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
