GET

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/5df41f2a-0cf1-4634-92f9-c815086d8d45/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
  "id": "5df41f2a-0cf1-4634-92f9-c815086d8d45",
  "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/5df41f2a-0cf1-4634-92f9-c815086d8d45/?format=api",
  "slug": "kuaizhou-1a-tianxing-1-02",
  "flightclub_url": null,
  "r_spacex_api_id": null,
  "name": "Kuaizhou 1A | Tianxing-1-02",
  "status": {
    "id": 3,
    "name": "Launch Successful",
    "abbrev": "Success",
    "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)."
  },
  "last_updated": "2024-03-05T18:03:32Z",
  "updates": [
    {
      "id": 6247,
      "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/4988970582409250",
      "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin",
      "created_on": "2024-01-11T04:30:54Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 6220,
      "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png",
      "comment": "Updated possible launch vehicle and LSP identity; LV/payload identities still highly uncertain.",
      "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60082.msg2556552#msg2556552",
      "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin",
      "created_on": "2024-01-09T11:45:07Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 6212,
      "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png",
      "comment": "Refined launch date and window; Payload and launch vehicle identities still highly uncertain.",
      "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2556209#msg2556209",
      "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin",
      "created_on": "2024-01-08T10:49:12Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 6093,
      "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=60082.0",
      "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin",
      "created_on": "2023-12-23T02:32:47Z"
    }
  ],
  "net": "2024-01-11T03:52:00Z",
  "net_precision": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Minute",
    "abbrev": "MIN",
    "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute."
  },
  "window_end": "2024-01-11T04:10:00Z",
  "window_start": "2024-01-11T03:42:00Z",
  "probability": null,
  "weather_concerns": null,
  "holdreason": "",
  "failreason": "",
  "hashtag": null,
  "launch_service_provider": {
    "id": 194,
    "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/194/?format=api",
    "name": "ExPace",
    "featured": false,
    "type": "Commercial",
    "country_code": "CHN",
    "abbrev": "EP",
    "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.",
    "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di",
    "founding_year": "2016",
    "launchers": "",
    "spacecraft": "",
    "launch_library_url": null,
    "total_launch_count": 34,
    "consecutive_successful_launches": 5,
    "successful_launches": 30,
    "failed_launches": 4,
    "pending_launches": 0,
    "consecutive_successful_landings": 0,
    "successful_landings": 0,
    "failed_landings": 0,
    "attempted_landings": 0,
    "info_url": null,
    "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPace",
    "logo_url": null,
    "image_url": null,
    "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png"
  },
  "rocket": {
    "id": 8156,
    "configuration": {
      "id": 135,
      "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/135/?format=api",
      "name": "Kuaizhou 1A",
      "active": true,
      "reusable": false,
      "description": "Kuaizhou is a family of Chinese \"quick-reaction\" orbital launch vehicles. Flying since 2013, Kuaizhou 1 and 1A consist of three solid-fueled rocket stages, with a liquid-fueled fourth stage as part of the satellite system.",
      "family": "Kuaizhou",
      "full_name": "Kuaizhou 1A",
      "manufacturer": {
        "id": 194,
        "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/194/?format=api",
        "name": "ExPace",
        "featured": false,
        "type": "Commercial",
        "country_code": "CHN",
        "abbrev": "EP",
        "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.",
        "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di",
        "founding_year": "2016",
        "launchers": "",
        "spacecraft": "",
        "launch_library_url": null,
        "total_launch_count": 34,
        "consecutive_successful_launches": 5,
        "successful_launches": 30,
        "failed_launches": 4,
        "pending_launches": 0,
        "consecutive_successful_landings": 0,
        "successful_landings": 0,
        "failed_landings": 0,
        "attempted_landings": 0,
        "info_url": null,
        "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPace",
        "logo_url": null,
        "image_url": null,
        "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png"
      },
      "program": [],
      "variant": "1A",
      "alias": "",
      "min_stage": 4,
      "max_stage": 4,
      "length": 19.4,
      "diameter": 1.4,
      "maiden_flight": "2017-01-09",
      "launch_cost": null,
      "launch_mass": 30,
      "leo_capacity": 300,
      "gto_capacity": null,
      "to_thrust": null,
      "apogee": null,
      "vehicle_range": null,
      "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg",
      "info_url": null,
      "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuaizhou",
      "total_launch_count": 31,
      "consecutive_successful_launches": 2,
      "successful_launches": 28,
      "failed_launches": 3,
      "pending_launches": 0,
      "attempted_landings": 0,
      "successful_landings": 0,
      "failed_landings": 0,
      "consecutive_successful_landings": 0
    },
    "launcher_stage": [],
    "spacecraft_stage": null
  },
  "mission": {
    "id": 6717,
    "name": "Tianxing-1-02",
    "description": "Satellite reported as for \"spatial environment measurement\" purposes. Actual usage TBD.",
    "launch_designator": null,
    "type": "Technology",
    "orbit": {
      "id": 17,
      "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit",
      "abbrev": "SSO"
    },
    "agencies": [],
    "info_urls": [],
    "vid_urls": []
  },
  "pad": {
    "id": 21,
    "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/21/?format=api",
    "agency_id": null,
    "name": "Launch Area 95A",
    "description": "",
    "info_url": null,
    "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center",
    "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.969117,100.343333",
    "latitude": "40.969117",
    "longitude": "100.343333",
    "location": {
      "id": 17,
      "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/17/?format=api",
      "name": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China",
      "country_code": "CHN",
      "description": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese spaceport located between the Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia and Hangtian Town, Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu Province. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City (Base 10).",
      "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_17_20200803142429.jpg",
      "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai",
      "total_launch_count": 292,
      "total_landing_count": 2
    },
    "country_code": "CHN",
    "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_21_20200803143253.jpg",
    "total_launch_count": 67,
    "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 67
  },
  "infoURLs": [],
  "vidURLs": [
    {
      "priority": 10,
      "source": "youtube.com",
      "publisher": "SciNews",
      "title": "Kuaizhou-1A launches Tianxing-1-02",
      "description": "A Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) launch vehicle launched the Tianxing-1 test satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, on 11 January 2024, at 03:52 UTC...",
      "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3-Kmv0ZKQR4/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCIAKENAF8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGEsgVyhlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBj1ICeWRYB0IRShuXigFvNLtxJzw",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Kmv0ZKQR4",
      "type": {
        "id": 6,
        "name": "Recap"
      },
      "language": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "English",
        "code": "en"
      },
      "start_time": "2024-01-11T06:10:27Z",
      "end_time": "2024-01-11T06:11:29Z"
    }
  ],
  "webcast_live": false,
  "timeline": [],
  "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou25201a_image_20240112074408.jpg",
  "infographic": null,
  "program": [],
  "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6597,
  "location_launch_attempt_count": 220,
  "pad_launch_attempt_count": 51,
  "agency_launch_attempt_count": 25,
  "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 8,
  "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2,
  "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2,
  "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2,
  "pad_turnaround": "P5DT16H32M",
  "mission_patches": [],
  "type": "detailed"
}