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/6dfca218-bffa-4472-9d17-a838692d484d/?format=api
{ "id": "6dfca218-bffa-4472-9d17-a838692d484d", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/6dfca218-bffa-4472-9d17-a838692d484d/?format=api", "slug": "minotaur-iv-nrol-129", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Minotaur IV | NROL-129", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T03:54:50Z", "updates": [], "net": "2020-07-15T13:46:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2020-07-15T13:46:00Z", "window_start": "2020-07-15T13:00:00Z", "probability": 95, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 257, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/257/?format=api", "name": "Northrop Grumman Space Systems", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NGSS", "description": "Northrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.", "administrator": "CEO: Kathy Warden", "founding_year": "2015", "launchers": "Antares | Minotaur | Pegasus", "spacecraft": "Cygnus", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 15, "consecutive_successful_launches": 15, "successful_launches": 15, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.northropgrumman.com/AboutUs/BusinessSectors/InnovationSystems/Pages/default.aspx", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman#Innovation_Systems", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/northrop2520grumman2520innovation2520systems_logo_20190207032451.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/northrop2520grumman2520innovation2520systems_image_20190207032451.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/northrop2520grumman2520space2520systems_nation_20230624130158.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2360, "configuration": { "id": 52, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/52/?format=api", "name": "Minotaur IV", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "The Minotaur IV launch system is derived from the Peacekeeper ICBM. The first three stages are taken directly from decommissioned Peacekeeper missiles. A fourth stage, the Orion-38, is taken from the Pegasus family of air-launched rockets.", "family": "Minotaur", "full_name": "Minotaur IV", "manufacturer": { "id": 179, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/179/?format=api", "name": "Orbital ATK", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "OA", "description": "Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company. It was formed in 2015 from the merger of Orbital Sciences Corporation and parts of Alliant Techsystems. Orbital ATK was purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2018.", "administrator": "President: David W. Thompson", "founding_year": "2015", "launchers": "Antares | Minotaur | Pegasus", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 6, "consecutive_successful_launches": 6, "successful_launches": 6, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.orbitalatk.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_ATK", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/orbital2520atk_logo_20190207032453.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/orbital2520atk_image_20190207032453.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/orbital2520atk_nation_20190207032453.jpeg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "Peacekeeper SLV", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 23.9, "diameter": 2.35, "maiden_flight": "2010-09-26", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 86, "leo_capacity": 1735, "gto_capacity": 0, "to_thrust": 2200, "apogee": 500, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/minotaur_iv_lau_image_20240307170209.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV", "total_launch_count": 4, "consecutive_successful_launches": 4, "successful_launches": 4, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 2, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 1127, "name": "NROL-129", "description": "Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 56, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/56/?format=api", "agency_id": 44, "name": "Launch Area 0 B", "description": "LP-0B became operational in 1999,and was subsequently upgraded in 2003 with the construction of a mobile service tower, which was completed in 2004. It is active, and is currently used by Northrop Grumman Minotaur rockets. The first launch from LP-0B was of a Minotaur I in December 2006, and was the first launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Regional_Spaceport_Launch_Pad_0#Pad-0B", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=37.831,-75.4911", "latitude": "37.831", "longitude": "-75.4911", "location": { "id": 21, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/21/?format=api", "name": "Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_21_20200803142423.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 80, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_56_20200803143541.jpg", "total_launch_count": 8, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 8 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": null, "title": "", "description": "", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/news/Press%20Kit_Launch_NROL-129.pdf?ver=2020-07-07-134345-553", "type": null, "language": null } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 1, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "NASAWallops Live Stream", "description": "Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KUUc6rYpm4U/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUUc6rYpm4U", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null }, { "priority": 10, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "", "description": "Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAWallops/live", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/minotaur_iv_lau_image_20240307170209.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 5974, "location_launch_attempt_count": 67, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 7, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 6, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 52, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_turnaround": "P2429DT12H31M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 443, "name": "NROL-129 Patch", "priority": 8, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/nrol-1292520pa_mission_patch_20211031044039.png", "agency": { "id": 181, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/181/?format=api", "name": "National Reconnaissance Office", "type": "Government" } }, { "id": 442, "name": "NROL-129 Patch", "priority": 9, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/nrol-1292520pa_mission_patch_20211031044038.png", "agency": { "id": 181, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/181/?format=api", "name": "National Reconnaissance Office", "type": "Government" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
