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/18c12658-4023-464a-b941-962e87bc2ecf/?format=api
{ "id": "18c12658-4023-464a-b941-962e87bc2ecf", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/18c12658-4023-464a-b941-962e87bc2ecf/?format=api", "slug": "space-shuttle-challenger-ov-099-sts-7", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-7", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-18T13:43:04Z", "updates": [], "net": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z", "window_start": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z", "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 102, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/102/?format=api", "name": "Rockwell International", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "ROI", "description": null, "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 8, "successful_launches": 8, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.rockwellautomation.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_International", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": null }, "rocket": { "id": 290, "configuration": { "id": 493, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/493/?format=api", "name": "Space Shuttle", "active": false, "reusable": true, "description": "The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.", "family": "", "full_name": "Space Shuttle", "manufacturer": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/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": 6, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/6/?format=api", "name": "Space Shuttle", "description": "The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" } ], "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/space2520shutt_program_20200820202237.png", "start_date": "1981-04-12T12:00:03Z", "end_date": "2011-07-08T15:29:00Z", "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 56.1, "diameter": 8.0, "maiden_flight": "1981-04-12", "launch_cost": "450000000", "launch_mass": 2030, "leo_capacity": 27500, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 28200, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/space_shuttle_image_20230422074810.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle", "total_launch_count": 135, "consecutive_successful_launches": 22, "successful_launches": 133, "failed_launches": 2, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 50, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/50/?format=api", "mission_end": "1983-06-24T13:56:00Z", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 1125, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 328, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/328/?format=api", "name": "Robert Crippen", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P23DT13H45M56S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1937-09-11", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. Crippen received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/robert2520crippen_image_20181202093705.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crippen", "last_flight": "1984-10-05T11:03:00Z", "first_flight": "1981-04-12T12:00:04Z" } }, { "id": 1127, "role": { "id": 2, "role": "Pilot", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 130, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/130/?format=api", "name": "Frederick \"Rick\" Hauck", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P18DT3H7M", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1941-04-11", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Frederick Hamilton \"Rick\" Hauck is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/frederick25202522rick25222520hauck_image_20181129204008.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hauck", "last_flight": "1988-09-29T15:37:00Z", "first_flight": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z" } }, { "id": 1129, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 349, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/349/?format=api", "name": "John M. 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Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sally2520ride_image_20190421143600.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride", "last_flight": "1984-10-05T11:03:00Z", "first_flight": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z" } }, { "id": 1140, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 586, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/586/?format=api", "name": "Norman E. 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He did on this on March 14, 1995, in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/norman2520e.2520thagard_image_20181207215117.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thagard", "last_flight": "1995-03-14T06:11:34Z", "first_flight": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 1122, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 328, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/328/?format=api", "name": "Robert Crippen", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P23DT13H45M56S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1937-09-11", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. Crippen received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/robert2520crippen_image_20181202093705.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crippen", "last_flight": "1984-10-05T11:03:00Z", "first_flight": "1981-04-12T12:00:04Z" } }, { "id": 108, "role": { "id": 2, "role": "Pilot", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 130, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/130/?format=api", "name": "Frederick \"Rick\" Hauck", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P18DT3H7M", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1941-04-11", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Frederick Hamilton \"Rick\" Hauck is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/frederick25202522rick25222520hauck_image_20181129204008.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hauck", "last_flight": "1988-09-29T15:37:00Z", "first_flight": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z" } }, { "id": 1130, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 349, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/349/?format=api", "name": "John M. 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He later led the Air Force's space operations.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/john2520m.2520fabian_image_20181202103905.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Fabian", "last_flight": "1985-06-17T11:33:00Z", "first_flight": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z" } }, { "id": 1133, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 358, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/358/?format=api", "name": "Sally Ride", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P14DT7H46M", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1951-05-26", "date_of_death": "2012-07-23", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut, physicist, and engineer. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both. 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He did on this on March 14, 1995, in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.", "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/norman2520e.2520thagard_image_20181207215117.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thagard", "last_flight": "1995-03-14T06:11:34Z", "first_flight": "1983-06-18T11:33:00Z" } } ], "spacecraft": { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/37/?format=api", "name": "Space Shuttle Challenger", "serial_number": "OV-099", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P62DT6H51M50S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 10, "mission_ends_count": 10, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Destroyed" }, "description": "Space Shuttle Challenger (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the second orbiter of NASA's space shuttle program to be put into service, after Columbia. 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