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/621d64e6-0513-45dc-8ffa-c9fd56518398/?format=api
{ "id": "621d64e6-0513-45dc-8ffa-c9fd56518398", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/621d64e6-0513-45dc-8ffa-c9fd56518398/?format=api", "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-inspiration4", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": "607a37565a906a44023e0866", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Inspiration4", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-03-05T18:18:44Z", "updates": [ { "id": 816, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "New launch window and weather predictions.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/spaceflightnow/status/1437445528602791940?s=21", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2021-09-13T16:05:32Z" }, { "id": 814, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/swgustav_profile_20210218062738.jpg", "comment": "Launch window was narrowed down", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1437193121088036872", "created_by": "SwGustav", "created_on": "2021-09-12T23:26:28Z" }, { "id": 811, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "New launch time.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/1436363551392866306?s=19", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2021-09-10T16:48:23Z" }, { "id": 759, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/swgustav_profile_20210218062738.jpg", "comment": "Launch is set for September 15th, window will be narrowed down to 5 hours three days before the launch.", "info_url": "https://inspiration4.com/press/inspiration4-go-for-first-all-civilian-orbital-mission", "created_by": "SwGustav", "created_on": "2021-09-03T16:19:57Z" } ], "net": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2021-09-16T05:13:00Z", "window_start": "2021-09-16T00:02:00Z", "probability": 90, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": "Inspiration4", "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": 488, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 474, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 109, "consecutive_successful_landings": 57, "successful_landings": 435, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 460, "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": 2825, "configuration": { "id": 164, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/164/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "active": true, "reusable": true, "description": "Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 Block 5", "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": 488, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 474, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 109, "consecutive_successful_landings": 57, "successful_landings": 435, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 460, "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": [ { "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/11/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Resupply Services", "description": "Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 257, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/257/?format=api", "name": "Northrop Grumman Space Systems", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 1020, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1020/?format=api", "name": "Sierra Nevada Corporation", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20201129212219.png", "start_date": "2008-12-23T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_Services#Commercial_Resupply_Services", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } }, { "id": 5, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/5/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Crew Program", "description": "The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is a human spaceflight program operated by NASA, in association with American aerospace manufacturers Boeing and SpaceX. The program conducts rotations between the expeditions of the International Space Station program, transporting crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules, in the first crewed orbital spaceflights operated by private companies.", "agencies": [ { "id": 80, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/80/?format=api", "name": "Boeing", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20200820201209.png", "start_date": "2011-04-18T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Program", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "variant": "Block 5", "alias": "", "min_stage": 1, "max_stage": 2, "length": 70.0, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2018-05-11", "launch_cost": "52000000", "launch_mass": 549, "leo_capacity": 22800, "gto_capacity": 8300, "to_thrust": 7607, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-9/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "total_launch_count": 398, "consecutive_successful_launches": 100, "successful_launches": 397, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 98, "attempted_landings": 390, "successful_landings": 385, "failed_landings": 5, "consecutive_successful_landings": 85 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 184, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 3, "launcher": { "id": 73, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/73/?format=api", "details": "Notable launches include GPS III SV04 & SV05 , Inspiration4 and Axiom-1.\r\n\r\nDestroyed during its 23rd landing attempt.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1062", "status": "destroyed", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/73_image_20220426161427.jpeg", "successful_landings": 22, "attempted_landings": 23, "flights": 23, "last_launch_date": "2024-08-28T07:48:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2020-11-05T23:24:23Z" }, "landing": { "id": 215, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "B1062 sucessfully landed on ASDS JRTI after its third flight.", "downrange_distance": 544.0, "location": { "id": 3, "name": "Just Read the Instructions", "abbrev": "JRTI", "description": "Third (Marmac 303) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Altantic Ocean.", "location": null, "successful_landings": 113 }, "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": "2021-06-17T16:09:35Z", "turn_around_time_days": 90, "previous_flight": { "id": "110c808a-a091-47ab-8532-4fa058c1de7a", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV05" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 590, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/590/?format=api", "mission_end": "2021-09-19T23:07:00Z", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 3174, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 657, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/657/?format=api", "name": "Jared Isaacman", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P8DT21H17M9S", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": "1983-02-11", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/rookisaacman", "instagram": null, "bio": "Jared Isaacman is an American businessman and pilot. He is the co-founder and CEO of Harbortouch, a payment processor and manufacturer of payment-processing hardware.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jared_isaacman_image_20220214140401.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Isaacman", "last_flight": "2024-09-10T09:23:49Z", "first_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z" } }, { "id": 3202, "role": { "id": 2, "role": "Pilot", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 660, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/660/?format=api", "name": "Sian Proctor", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P3DT23H4M4S", "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": "1970-03-28", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Sian Proctor is an American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator, and aspiring astronaut. She is a geology, sustainability and planetary science professor at South Mountain Community College. Proctor was the education outreach officer for the first Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) Mission.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sian_proctor_image_20210914154206.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sian_Proctor", "last_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z", "first_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z" } }, { "id": 3203, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 661, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/661/?format=api", "name": "Chris Sembroski", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P3DT23H4M4S", "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": "1979-08-28", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/epathctocs", "instagram": null, "bio": "Chris Sembroski is an aerospace worker at Lockheed Martin who used to work on Minuteman missiles in the Air Force.\r\n\r\nBirth date is unknown.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/chris_sembroski_image_20210914154201.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sembroski", "last_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z", "first_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z" } }, { "id": 3180, "role": { "id": 26, "role": "Flight Surgeon", "priority": 5 }, "astronaut": { "id": 658, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/658/?format=api", "name": "Hayley Arceneaux", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P3DT23H4M4S", "status": { "id": 14, "name": "Occasional Spaceflight" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": "1991-12-04", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/ArceneauxHayley", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/hayleyarc/", "bio": "Hayley Arceneaux is a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor and private astronaut who is now a physician assistant.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/hayley_arceneau_image_20210914154211.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Arceneaux", "last_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z", "first_flight": "2021-09-16T00:02:56Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 3175, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 657, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/657/?format=api", "name": "Jared Isaacman", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P8DT21H17M9S", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "date_of_birth": "1983-02-11", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/rookisaacman", "instagram": null, "bio": "Jared Isaacman is an American businessman and pilot. 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She is a geology, sustainability and planetary science professor at South Mountain Community College. 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