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/3d959fa3-5a10-4b54-a603-4cfc7c414fb2/?format=api
https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/3d959fa3-5a10-4b54-a603-4cfc7c414fb2/?format=api", "slug": "electron-on-closer-inspection-adras-j", "flightclub_url": "https://flightclub.io/result?llId=3d959fa3-5a10-4b54-a603-4cfc7c414fb2", "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Electron | On Closer Inspection (ADRAS-J)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-03-05T18:00:26Z", "updates": [ { "id": 6707, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1759257218233577506", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-18T16:57:38Z" }, { "id": 6706, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff.", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuZMP1m_g8", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-18T14:53:08Z" }, { "id": 6705, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/ll2_profile_20230311134739.png", "comment": "Livestream has started", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuZMP1m_g8", "created_by": "LL2", "created_on": "2024-02-18T14:25:49Z" }, { "id": 6687, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch time.", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/assets/Uploads/F44-On-Closer-Inspection-Press-Kit-web.pdf", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-16T05:12:02Z" }, { "id": 6667, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added tentative launch window per marine navigation warnings.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54835.msg2567840#msg2567840", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-15T00:30:23Z" }, { "id": 6595, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Targeting late February 18 UTC.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/astroscale_hq/status/1755347186047737906", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-07T23:54:18Z" }, { "id": 6593, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/lucas2520stauder_profile_20230526163835.jpg", "comment": "Targeting 19th Feb for launch", "info_url": "https://investors.rocketlabusa.com/news/news-details/2024/Rocket-Lab-Sets-Launch-Window-for-Astroscale-Orbital-Debris-Inspection-Demonstration-Mission/default.aspx", "created_by": "hitura-nobad", "created_on": "2024-02-07T21:23:29Z" }, { "id": 5264, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding launch", "info_url": "https://spacenews.com/astroscale-inspector-satellite-ready-for-launch/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2023-09-29T09:02:23Z" } ], "net": "2024-02-18T14:52:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2024-02-18T14:52:00Z", "window_start": "2024-02-18T14:52:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8039, "configuration": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.", "family": "", "full_name": "Electron", "manufacturer": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 1.2, "maiden_flight": "2017-05-25", "launch_cost": "6000000", "launch_mass": 13, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 162, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/electron/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron", "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 31, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6585, "name": "On Closer Inspection (ADRAS-J)", "description": "The Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) mission consists of a spacecraft developed and operated by Astroscale aiming to rendezvous with and characterize a large piece of debris. Its target is the H-2A upper stage left in Low Earth Orbit after the launch of the GOSAT Earth observation satellite in 2009.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 1077, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1077/?format=api", "name": "Astroscale", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "ASC", "description": "Astroscale Holdings Inc. is a private orbital debris removal company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company is developing satellite end-of-life and active debris removal services to mitigate the growing and hazardous buildup of debris in space.", "administrator": "COO: Chris Blackerby", "founding_year": "2013", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "ELSA-d | ADRAS-J", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://astroscale.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroscale", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/astroscale_logo_image_20240325075850.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/astroscale_nation_20230929085910.jpg" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 185, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/185/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Launch_Complex_1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=-39.262833,177.864469", "latitude": "-39.262833", "longitude": "177.864469", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "description": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. With the Electron launch of 21 January 2018, it became the first private spaceport to host a successful orbital launch.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "timezone_name": "Pacific/Auckland", "total_launch_count": 58, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "country_code": "NZL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_185_20200803143540.jpg", "total_launch_count": 28, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 28 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "www.rocketlabusa.com", "title": "", "description": "", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/assets/Uploads/F44-On-Closer-Inspection-Press-Kit-web.pdf", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Official Press Kit" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" } } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "Rocket Lab", "title": "Rocket Lab - On Closer Inspection Launch", "description": "", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dcuZMP1m_g8/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuZMP1m_g8", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Webcast" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2024-02-18T14:23:18Z", "end_time": "2024-02-18T15:59:19Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [ { "type": { "id": 10, "abbrev": "Liftoff", "description": "First upwards movement of the rocket" }, "relative_time": "P0D" }, { "type": { "id": 25, "abbrev": "Supersonic", "description": "Vehicle is supersonic" }, "relative_time": "PT55S" }, { "type": { "id": 11, "abbrev": "Max-Q", "description": "Maximum dynamic pressure" }, "relative_time": "PT1M1S" }, { "type": { "id": 12, "abbrev": "MECO", "description": "Cut-off of the main engine" }, "relative_time": "PT2M24S" }, { "type": { "id": 13, "abbrev": "Stage 2 Separation", "description": "Separation of the second stage from the first" }, "relative_time": "PT2M27S" }, { "type": { "id": 31, "abbrev": "SES", "description": "Start of the second engine" }, "relative_time": "PT2M31S" }, { "type": { "id": 15, "abbrev": "Fairing Separation", "description": "Separation of the payload fairing" }, "relative_time": "PT3M4S" }, { "type": { "id": 72, "abbrev": "Battery Hotswap", "description": "Electron Second stages switches to a new set of batteries and jettisons the depleted ones." }, "relative_time": "PT6M21S" }, { "type": { "id": 24, "abbrev": "SECO", "description": "Cut-off of the second engine" }, "relative_time": "PT9M4S" }, { "type": { "id": 30, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Separation", "description": "Separation of the kick stage from the previous stage" }, "relative_time": "PT9M8S" }, { "type": { "id": 73, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Burn", "description": "The kick stage conducts an engine burn in orbit." }, "relative_time": "PT50M36S" }, { "type": { "id": 73, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Burn", "description": "The kick stage conducts an engine burn in orbit." }, "relative_time": "PT1H3M30S" }, { "type": { "id": 35, "abbrev": "Payload Separation", "description": "Final deployment of the payload from the rocket" }, "relative_time": "PT1H4M30S" } ], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron25202_image_20240218193513.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6623, "location_launch_attempt_count": 41, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 15, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 44, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 34, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_turnaround": "P18DT8H18M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 985, "name": "On Closer Inspection", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/on2520closer2_mission_patch_20240210170511.png", "agency": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "type": "Commercial" } } ], "type": "detailed" }{ "id": "3d959fa3-5a10-4b54-a603-4cfc7c414fb2", "url": "