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/5a30129a-8ec6-4189-999e-b9fa22fc4688/?format=api
{ "id": "5a30129a-8ec6-4189-999e-b9fa22fc4688", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/5a30129a-8ec6-4189-999e-b9fa22fc4688/?format=api", "slug": "smart-dragon-3-9-satellites", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Smart Dragon 3 | 9 satellites", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-09-22T15:26:49Z", "updates": [ { "id": 6544, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4997301029046852", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-03T04:04:16Z" }, { "id": 6537, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET February 3 UTC per new marine navigation warnings.", "info_url": "https://www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/TUHO/vpage/vitalimportant.html?212_240044:en", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-02T08:06:00Z" }, { "id": 6535, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NOTAMs A0254 & 0255/24 were removed before start of window, indicating launch was scrubbed for the day. New launch date pending.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59024.msg2564299#msg2564299", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-02-02T03:29:09Z" }, { "id": 6515, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Refined launch window.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2563241#msg2563241", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-01-30T18:22:44Z" }, { "id": 6464, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload and launch vehicle identities highly uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2561520#msg2561520", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-01-24T16:34:52Z" } ], "net": "2024-02-03T03:06:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2024-02-03T03:16:00Z", "window_start": "2024-02-03T02:56:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 272, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/272/?format=api", "name": "China Rocket Co. Ltd.", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CHNR", "description": "China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 9, "consecutive_successful_launches": 9, "successful_launches": 9, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520rocket2520co.2520ltd._logo_20221001084159.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china_rocket_co_image_20240922154013.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8176, "configuration": { "id": 484, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/484/?format=api", "name": "Smart Dragon 3", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Smart Dragon-3 is a solid fuel orbital rocket designed by a subsidiary of the state-owned CASC group built for the commercial market.", "family": "Smart Dragon", "full_name": "Smart Dragon 3", "manufacturer": { "id": 272, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/272/?format=api", "name": "China Rocket Co. Ltd.", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CHNR", "description": "China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 9, "consecutive_successful_launches": 9, "successful_launches": 9, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520rocket2520co.2520ltd._logo_20221001084159.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china_rocket_co_image_20240922154013.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": null, "max_stage": null, "length": 32.0, "diameter": 2.64, "maiden_flight": "2022-12-09", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 140, "leo_capacity": null, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/smart_dragon_3__image_20240925074606.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 8, "successful_launches": 8, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6743, "name": "9 satellites", "description": "Carried 9 satellites to Sun-synchronous orbit:\r\n\r\n* DRO-L\r\n* Zhixing-2A (SmartSat-2A)\r\n* DongFangHuiYan-GF01\r\n* WeiHai-1-01/02\r\n* XingShiDai-18/19/20\r\n* NEXSAT-1", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Technology", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 217, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/217/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Bo Run Jiu Zhou mobile launch platform", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=21.283333,112.0", "latitude": "21.283333", "longitude": "112.0", "location": { "id": 185, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/185/?format=api", "name": "Haiyang Oriental Spaceport", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "Chinese orbital launch vehicle launches supporting sea port located at Haiyang, Shandong Province, with dedicated piers and rocket/payload processing facilities for Chinese launch vehicles’ sea launches, and (as part of its expansion project) land based launch pads on artificial islands for various test vehicles and launch vehicles of private and government launch services providers.\r\n\r\nIn operation as a remote base of Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center since 2019.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_haiyang_oriental_spaceport_20251128181322.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 21, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_bo_run_jiu_zhou_mobile_launch_platform_20231206001303.jpg", "total_launch_count": 3, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 3 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "SciNews", "title": "Smart Dragon-3 launches 9 satellites", "description": "A Smart Dragon-3 launch vehicle successfully launched nine satellites, including NExSat-1 for the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), from a sea-based platform off...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6bjbCJcTywc/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCIAKENAF8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGFQgXChlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC40NCVzLk-vwTtUdfvrlqokPOeTw", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bjbCJcTywc", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Recap" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2024-02-03T06:20:58Z", "end_time": "2024-02-03T06:22:23Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/smart2520drago_image_20240204094625.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6613, "location_launch_attempt_count": 10, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 4, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 24, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "pad_turnaround": "P39DT4H27M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 981, "name": "SD-3 Y3", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/sd-32520y3_mission_patch_20240203135659.png", "agency": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "type": "Government" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
