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/598af929-31d4-4544-ad77-e0b6f9c8f460/?format=api
{ "id": "598af929-31d4-4544-ad77-e0b6f9c8f460", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/598af929-31d4-4544-ad77-e0b6f9c8f460/?format=api", "slug": "falcon-heavy-demo-test-flight", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Falcon Heavy | Demo (Test 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": "2024-03-05T18:22:00Z", "updates": [], "net": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2018-02-06T21:00:00Z", "window_start": "2018-02-06T18:30:00Z", "probability": 90, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 491, "consecutive_successful_launches": 14, "successful_launches": 477, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 60, "successful_landings": 438, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 463, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2076, "configuration": { "id": 161, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/161/?format=api", "name": "Falcon Heavy", "active": true, "reusable": true, "description": "The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon Heavy", "manufacturer": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 491, "consecutive_successful_launches": 14, "successful_launches": 477, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 60, "successful_landings": 438, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 463, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "Heavy", "alias": "", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 70.0, "diameter": 12.2, "maiden_flight": "2018-02-06", "launch_cost": "90000000", "launch_mass": 1400, "leo_capacity": 63800, "gto_capacity": 26700, "to_thrust": 22819, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_heavy_image_20220129192819.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-heavy/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy", "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 11, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 11, "attempted_landings": 21, "successful_landings": 19, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 13 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 48, "type": "Strap-On Booster", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 2, "launcher": { "id": 34, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/34/?format=api", "details": "Retired.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1025", "status": "retired", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/34_image_20190226082254.jpeg", "successful_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 2, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2016-07-18T04:45:29Z" }, "landing": { "id": 86, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The strap on booster landed successfully at Landing Zone 2 in unison with its sibling booster.", "downrange_distance": 14.6, "location": { "id": 5, "name": "Landing Zone 2", "abbrev": "LZ-2", "description": "LZ-2 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13. Directly next to LZ-1", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1014, "total_landing_count": 62 }, "successful_landings": 11 }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", "description": "A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from." } }, "previous_flight_date": "2016-07-18T04:45:29Z", "turn_around_time_days": 568, "previous_flight": { "id": "74eb8c19-cb07-4674-8a0f-9090f952024a", "name": "Falcon 9 Full Thrust | SpX CRS-9" } }, { "id": 47, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 51, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/51/?format=api", "details": "Two of the outer engines didn't re-ignite for the landing burn, ran out of TEA/TEB igniters. ", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1033", "status": "lost", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/51_image_20190226084354.jpeg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 85, "attempt": true, "success": false, "description": "The first stage of the Falcon 9 failed to land on the ASDS, OCISLY, stationed of the east coast. According to CEO Elon Musk the center core did not have enough ignition fluid to restart the two outer engines during its final approach to the ship. As a result, the center core was destroyed when it impacted the water at over 480kmh merely 100 meters from the droneship.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 1, "name": "Of Course I Still Love You", "abbrev": "OCISLY", "description": "The second ASDS barge, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) services launches in the Pacific Ocean and was the site of the first landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage during CRS-8, the launch of a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.", "location": null, "successful_landings": 125 }, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship", "abbrev": "ASDS", "description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null }, { "id": 49, "type": "Strap-On Booster", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 2, "launcher": { "id": 32, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/32/?format=api", "details": "Retired; on permanent display indoors at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1023", "status": "retired", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/32_image_20190226081021.jpeg", "successful_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 2, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2016-05-27T21:39:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 87, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The strap on booster landed successfully at Landing Zone 1 in unison with its sibling booster.", "downrange_distance": 14.9, "location": { "id": 4, "name": "Landing Zone 1", "abbrev": "LZ-1", "description": "LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1014, "total_landing_count": 62 }, "successful_landings": 50 }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", 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"https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Earthling", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Tesla_Starman", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/starman_by_spacex/", "bio": "\"Starman\" is a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupying the driver's seat of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched to an heliocentric orbit on Falcon Heavy's inaugural launch.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starman_image_20190307220126.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster", "last_flight": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z", "first_flight": "2018-02-06T20:45:00Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [ { "id": 874, "role": { "id": 21, "role": "Space Traveller", "priority": 9 }, "astronaut": { "id": 638, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/638/?format=api", "name": "Starman", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Non-Human" 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