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/682328d3-ce10-448c-be16-c5f8f851a312/?format=api
{ "id": "682328d3-ce10-448c-be16-c5f8f851a312", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/682328d3-ce10-448c-be16-c5f8f851a312/?format=api", "slug": "soyuz-21vvolga-kosmos-258125822583", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Soyuz 2.1v/Volga | Kosmos 2581/2582/2583", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-03-06T06:32:13Z", "updates": [ { "id": 10022, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://x.com/OrbitalFocus/status/1887142116809130221", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-02-05T14:24:00Z" }, { "id": 10021, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff confirmed.", "info_url": "https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/23056711", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-02-05T06:45:00Z" }, { "id": 10015, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Updated launch window per NOTAM X0894/25.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=62337.msg2662435#msg2662435", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-02-05T01:08:00Z" }, { "id": 9971, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs and marine navigation warnings; Payload identities uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=62337.msg2661231#msg2661231", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-02-01T04:36:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-02-05T03:59:24Z", "net_precision": { "id": 0, "name": "Second", "abbrev": "SEC", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the second." }, "window_end": "2025-02-05T05:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-02-05T03:59:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 193, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/193/?format=api", "name": "Russian Space Forces", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "VKS", "description": "The Russian Space Forces are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following August 1, 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch. The Russian Space Forces were originally formed on August 10, 1992 and the creation of the Russian Armed Forces.", "administrator": "Commander: Aleksandr Golovko", "founding_year": "1992", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 143, "consecutive_successful_launches": 55, "successful_launches": 135, "failed_launches": 8, "pending_launches": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Aerospace_Forces", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520space2520forces_logo_20200805185824.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520space2520forces_image_20191210085547.png", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520space2520forces_nation_20230805154528.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8512, "configuration": { "id": 60, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/60/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz 2.1v", "active": false, "reusable": false, "description": "The Soyuz-2.1v is a Russian expendable carrier rocket. It was derived from the Soyuz-2.1b, and is a member of the R-7 family of rockets.", "family": "Soyuz", "full_name": "Soyuz 2.1v Volga", "manufacturer": { "id": 111, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/111/?format=api", "name": "Progress Rocket Space Center", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "PRSC", "description": "Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.", "administrator": "CEO: Dmitry Baranov", "founding_year": "1996", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 45, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 44, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://en.samspace.ru/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Rocket_Space_Centre", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/progress2520rocket2520space2520center_logo_20210313175054.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": null }, "program": [], "variant": "Volga", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 44.0, "diameter": 3.0, "maiden_flight": "2013-12-28", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 158, "leo_capacity": 2850, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz25202-1v_image_20191122081651.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_2.1v", "total_launch_count": 9, "consecutive_successful_launches": 7, "successful_launches": 8, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7102, "name": "Kosmos 2581/2582/2583", "description": "Unidentified classified satellites for the Russian military.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 13, "name": "Polar Orbit", "abbrev": "PO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 85, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/85/?format=api", "agency_id": 163, "name": "43/4 (43R)", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=62.92883,40.457098", "latitude": "62.92883", "longitude": "40.457098", "location": { "id": 6, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/6/?format=api", "name": "Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation", "country_code": "RUS", "description": "Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk. Originally developed as an ICBM site for the R-7 missile, it also served for numerous satellite launches using the R-7 and other rockets. Its high latitude makes it useful only for certain types of launches, especially the Molniya orbits, so for much of the site's history it functioned as a secondary location, with most orbital launches taking place from Baikonur, in the Kazakh SSR. With the end of the Soviet Union, Baikonur became a foreign territory, and Kazakhstan charged $115 million usage fees annually. 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