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/6e99b22c-1a27-428c-96f3-c868b8b53cfe/?format=api
{ "id": "6e99b22c-1a27-428c-96f3-c868b8b53cfe", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/6e99b22c-1a27-428c-96f3-c868b8b53cfe/?format=api", "slug": "electron-wise-one-looks-ahead-nrol-162", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Electron | Wise One Looks Ahead (NROL-162)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-03-05T17:59:50Z", "updates": [ { "id": 2074, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scottm3_profile_20210817212204.png", "comment": "Payload separation success", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1547125059562586113", "created_by": "scottm3", "created_on": "2022-07-13T07:50:31Z" }, { "id": 2073, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scottm3_profile_20210817212204.png", "comment": "Liftoff", "info_url": null, "created_by": "scottm3", "created_on": "2022-07-13T06:30:37Z" }, { "id": 2072, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scottm3_profile_20210817212204.png", "comment": "T-0 updated", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1547073964304105472", "created_by": "scottm3", "created_on": "2022-07-13T04:23:30Z" }, { "id": 2071, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scottm3_profile_20210817212204.png", "comment": "Launch time updated to 06:00 UTC", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1547057012982554624", "created_by": "scottm3", "created_on": "2022-07-13T03:31:59Z" }, { "id": 2070, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scottm3_profile_20210817212204.png", "comment": "70% go for launch", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1546999612695019521/photo/1", "created_by": "scottm3", "created_on": "2022-07-13T01:48:39Z" }, { "id": 2053, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/swgustav_profile_20210218062738.jpg", "comment": "Delayed by a day to July 13th due to weather", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1546323015704924160", "created_by": "SwGustav", "created_on": "2022-07-11T02:51:52Z" }, { "id": 2032, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/swgustav_profile_20210218062738.jpg", "comment": "NET July 12th", "info_url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220705005813/en/Rocket-Lab-to-Launch-Responsive-Space-Missions-for-National-Reconnaissance-Office", "created_by": "SwGustav", "created_on": "2022-07-05T21:51:31Z" } ], "net": "2022-07-13T06:30:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2022-07-13T07:00:00Z", "window_start": "2022-07-13T05:00:00Z", "probability": 70, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2724, "configuration": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.", "family": "", "full_name": "Electron", "manufacturer": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 1.2, "maiden_flight": "2017-05-25", "launch_cost": "6000000", "launch_mass": 13, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 162, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/electron/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron", "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 31, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 475, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 140, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/140/?format=api", "details": "Booster used during the \"Wise One Looks Ahead\" mission.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "28", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/none_image_20231125061605.jpeg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2022-07-13T06:30:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2022-07-13T06:30:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1279, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "Expended during its first flight.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 15, "name": "South Pacific", "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "description": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. With the Electron launch of 21 January 2018, it became the first private spaceport to host a successful orbital launch.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "timezone_name": "Pacific/Auckland", "total_launch_count": 58, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "successful_landings": 4 }, "type": { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6084, "name": "NROL-162 (RASR-3)", "description": "Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 181, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/181/?format=api", "name": "National Reconnaissance Office", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NRO", "description": "The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.", "administrator": "Director: Christopher Scolese", "founding_year": "1961", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.nro.gov/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520reconnaissance2520office_nation_20240228092125.png" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 65, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/65/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Launch_Complex_1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=-39.262833,177.864469", "latitude": "-39.262833", "longitude": "177.864469", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "description": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. 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