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/4715d93a-a993-4061-b1f8-cb13e2c4d8da/?format=api
{ "id": "4715d93a-a993-4061-b1f8-cb13e2c4d8da", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/4715d93a-a993-4061-b1f8-cb13e2c4d8da/?format=api", "slug": "soyuz-u-soyuz-29", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Soyuz-U | Soyuz 29", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T08:40:43Z", "updates": [], "net": "1978-06-15T20:16:45Z", "net_precision": { "id": 0, "name": "Second", "abbrev": "SEC", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the second." }, "window_end": "1978-06-15T20:16:45Z", "window_start": "1978-06-15T20:16:45Z", "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 66, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/66/?format=api", "name": "Soviet Space Program", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "CCCP", "description": "The Soviet space program, was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) actived from 1930s until disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.\r\n\r\nThe Soviet Union's space program was mainly based on the cosmonautic exploration of space and the development of the expandable launch vehicles, which had been split between many design bureaus competing against each other. Over its 60-years of history, the Russian program was responsible for a number of pioneering feats and accomplishments in the human space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the Moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": "1931", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 2456, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 2288, "failed_launches": 168, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_logo_20191229081307.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_image_20191229081306.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_nation_20191229081307.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 266, "configuration": { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/37/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz U", "active": false, "reusable": false, "description": "", "family": "Soyuz", "full_name": "Soyuz U", "manufacturer": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "RFSA", "description": "The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.", "administrator": "Administrator: Yuri Borisov", "founding_year": "1992", "launchers": "Soyuz", "spacecraft": "Soyuz", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 330, "consecutive_successful_launches": 54, "successful_launches": 319, "failed_launches": 11, "pending_launches": 11, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://en.roscosmos.ru/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Federal_Space_Agency", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_logo_20190207032459.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_image_20190207032459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_nation_20230531052758.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 51.1, "diameter": 2.95, "maiden_flight": "1973-05-18", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 313, "leo_capacity": 6900, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz2520u_image_20190222031023.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-U", "total_launch_count": 714, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 694, "failed_launches": 20, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 327, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/327/?format=api", "mission_end": "1978-09-03T11:40:34Z", "destination": "Salyut 6", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 2857, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 172, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/172/?format=api", "name": "Vladimir Kovalyonok", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P216DT9H9M40S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1943-03-03", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok (Belarusian: Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Кавалёнак; Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ковалёнок; born March 3, 1942 in Beloye, Minsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR, is a retired Soviet cosmonaut.\r\n\r\nHe entered the Soviet space programme on July 5, 1967 and was commander of three missions. He retired from the cosmonaut team on June 23, 1984.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vladimir2520kovalyonok_image_20181129233907.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kovalyonok", "last_flight": "1981-03-12T19:00:11Z", "first_flight": "1977-10-09T02:40:35Z" } }, { "id": 2849, "role": { "id": 3, "role": "Flight Engineer", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 153, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/153/?format=api", "name": "Aleksandr Ivanchenkov", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P147DT12H38M24S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1940-09-28", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Aleksandr Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Иванче́нков; born 28 September 1940 ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 29 and Soyuz T-6, he spent 147 days, 12 hours and 37 minutes in space.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/aleksandr2520ivanchenkov_image_20181129231158.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ivanchenkov", "last_flight": "1982-06-24T16:29:48Z", "first_flight": "1978-06-15T20:16:45Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 2901, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 84, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/84/?format=api", "name": "Valery Bykovsky", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P20DT17H48M23S", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1934-08-02", "date_of_death": "2019-03-27", "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; born 2 August 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/valery2520bykovsky_image_20181128224024.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Bykovsky", "last_flight": "1978-08-26T14:51:30Z", "first_flight": "1963-06-14T11:58:58Z" } }, { "id": 2906, "role": { "id": 11, "role": "Research Cosmonaut", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 156, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/156/?format=api", "name": "Sigmund Jähn", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P7DT20H49M4S", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1937-02-13", "date_of_death": "2019-09-21", "nationality": "German", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (born 13 February 1937) is a German cosmonaut and pilot, who in 1978 became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sigmund2520j25c325a4hn_image_20181129231552.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_J%C3%A4hn", "last_flight": "1978-08-26T14:51:30Z", "first_flight": "1978-08-26T14:51:30Z" } } ], "spacecraft": { "id": 178, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/178/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz 29", "serial_number": "Soyuz 7K-T 11F615A8 #46", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P79DT15H23M49S", "time_docked": "P78DT10H24M46S", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Soyuz 29 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 15 June 1978 20:16 UTC. It transported two cosmonauts of EO-2 to Salyut 6. The crew was Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/1/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "RFSA", "description": "The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.", "administrator": "Administrator: Yuri Borisov", "founding_year": "1992", "launchers": "Soyuz", "spacecraft": "Soyuz", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_image_20190207032459.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_logo_20190207032459.png" }, "in_use": false, "capability": "Manned and Cargo ISS Logistics", "history": "The Soyuz TMA-M is an upgrade of the baseline Soyuz-TMA, using a new computer, digital interior displays, updated docking equipment and vehicle's total mass has been reduced by 70 kilograms. This new version debuted on 7 October 2010 with the launch of TMA-01M, carrying the ISS Expedition 25 crew. The Soyuz TMA-08M set a new record for the fastest manned docking into space station, event utilized the new 6-hour fast rendezvous instead of the previous Soyuz launches which had, since 1986, taken two days.", "details": "Soyuz is a series of spacecraft designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau (now RKK Energia) in the 1960s that remains in service today. The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraft and was originally built as part of the Soviet Manned Lunar programme. nn The Soyuz spacecraft is launched on a Soyuz rocket, the most frequently used and most reliable launch vehicle in the world to date. The Soyuz rocket design is based on the Vostok launcher, which in turn was based on the 8K74 or R-7A Semyorka, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile. All Soyuz spacecraft are launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.", "maiden_flight": "1966-11-28", "height": 7.48, "diameter": 2.72, "human_rated": true, "crew_capacity": 3, "payload_capacity": null, "payload_return_capacity": null, "flight_life": "200 Days", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_image_20201015191152.jpg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)", "info_link": "" } }, "landing": { "id": 738, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Soyuz spacecraft safely landed in Kazakhstan.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 19, "name": "Kazakhstan", "abbrev": "KAZ", "description": "Deserts of Kazakhstan in Central Asia", "location": null, "successful_landings": 193 }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." } }, "docking_events": [ { "id": 187, "spacestation": { "id": 14, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacestation/14/?format=api", "name": "Salyut 6", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "De-Orbited" }, "founded": "1977-09-29", "description": "Salyut 6, also known as DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the \"second-generation\" type of space station. Salyut 6 possessed several revolutionary advances over the earlier Soviet space stations, which it nevertheless resembled in overall design. These included the addition of a second docking port, a new main propulsion system and the station's primary scientific instrument, the BST-1M multispectral telescope. The addition of the second docking port made crew handovers and station resupply by unmanned Progress freighters possible for the first time.", "orbit": "Low Earth Orbit", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/salyut25206_image_20190318095930.jpg" }, "docking": "1978-06-16T21:58:14Z", "departure": "1978-09-03T08:23:00Z", "docking_location": { "id": 4, "name": "Salyut-6 forward", "spacestation": { "id": 14, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacestation/14/?format=api", "name": "Salyut 6" } } } ] } }, "mission": { "id": 937, "name": "Soyuz 29", "description": "Soyuz 29 was the fourth mission to visit the Salyut 6 space station and carried the the EO-2 expedition, which was the second long-duration crew for the station. The mission began on June 15, 1978, 20:16:45 UTC, launching Commander Vladimir Kovalyonok and Flight Engineer Aleksandr Ivanchenkov into orbit. They docked with the station the next day. 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