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/6fc4b696-240a-4619-9462-a9149d8bd2ee/?format=api
{ "id": "6fc4b696-240a-4619-9462-a9149d8bd2ee", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/6fc4b696-240a-4619-9462-a9149d8bd2ee/?format=api", "slug": "vega-sentinel-2c", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Vega | Sentinel-2C", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-09-06T06:38:49Z", "updates": [ { "id": 8496, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Sentinel-2C signals acquired.", "info_url": "https://x.com/esa_eo/status/1831529904652857512", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-09-05T03:20:00Z" }, { "id": 8495, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Sentinel-2C separation.", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzcOxxeMyA", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-09-05T02:53:00Z" }, { "id": 8494, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff.", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzcOxxeMyA", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-09-05T01:50:00Z" }, { "id": 8493, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Tweaked T-0.", "info_url": "https://x.com/DutchSpace/status/1831505785362530442", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-09-05T01:41:00Z" }, { "id": 8492, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/ll2_profile_20230311134739.png", "comment": "Official Webcast by arianespace has started", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzcOxxeMyA", "created_by": "LL2", "created_on": "2024-09-05T01:12:00Z" }, { "id": 8478, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Setting GO", "info_url": "https://x.com/Arianespace/status/1831212746307711229", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2024-09-04T06:16:11Z" }, { "id": 8472, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/swgustav_profile_20210218062738.jpg", "comment": "Scrubbed due to ground electrical issues", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/Arianespace/status/1831099750906765795", "created_by": "SwGustav", "created_on": "2024-09-04T00:40:40Z" }, { "id": 8421, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding seconds to T-0", "info_url": "https://newsroom.arianespace.com/download?picid=55320&pn=PRESS%20KIT%20VV24%20(EN)-pdf", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2024-08-28T08:32:41Z" }, { "id": 8186, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "GO for launch.", "info_url": "https://newsroom.arianespace.com/arianespace-to-launch-europes-copernicus-earth-observation-program-sentinel-2c-satellite-on-september-3/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-07-31T16:05:04Z" }, { "id": 5972, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET September 2024.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1735295501023482168", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2023-12-14T14:31:35Z" }, { "id": 5873, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launcher swapped with one for Sentinel-2C in summer 2023.", "info_url": "https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-case-of-the-missing-vega-avum-propellant-tanks/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2023-12-05T14:41:45Z" }, { "id": 2924, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding launch mid-2024", "info_url": "https://www.arianespace.com/press-release/arianespace-supporting-the-european-unions-copernicus-programme-with-vega-c/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2022-11-29T16:04:57Z" } ], "net": "2024-09-05T01:50:15Z", "net_precision": { "id": 0, "name": "Second", "abbrev": "SEC", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the second." }, "window_end": "2024-09-05T01:50:15Z", "window_start": "2024-09-05T01:50:15Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 115, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/115/?format=api", "name": "Arianespace", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "FRA", "abbrev": "ASA", "description": "Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.", "administrator": "CEO: David Cavaillolès", "founding_year": "1980", "launchers": "Ariane | Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 319, "consecutive_successful_launches": 7, "successful_launches": 304, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 48, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.arianespace.com", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/arianespace_logo_20210603173752.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ariane_62_on_el_image_20240708201807.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/arianespace_nation_20230530190314.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 7719, "configuration": { "id": 167, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/167/?format=api", "name": "Vega", "active": false, "reusable": false, "description": "Vega is the smallest lifter in the current Arianespace family.", "family": "Vega", "full_name": "Vega", "manufacturer": { "id": 159, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/159/?format=api", "name": "Avio S.p.A", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "ITA", "abbrev": "Avio", "description": "Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. 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Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees.\r\n\r\nESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.", "administrator": "Director General: Josef Aschbacher", "founding_year": "1975", "launchers": "Ariane | Vega", "spacecraft": "Space Rider", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 7, "consecutive_successful_launches": 5, "successful_launches": 6, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.esa.int/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/european2520space2520agency_logo_20221130101442.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/esa_patch_float_image_20250211192109.png", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/european2520space2520agency_logo_20221130101442.png" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 34, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/34/?format=api", "agency_id": 115, "name": "Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)", "description": "ELA-1, now named Ensemble de Lancement Vega (short ELV), is a launch pad at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in French Guiana. It has been used to support launches of the Europa rocket, Ariane 1, Ariane 3, and is currently used to launch Vega rockets.", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELA-1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=5.236,-52.775", "latitude": "5.236", "longitude": "-52.775", "location": { "id": 13, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/13/?format=api", "name": "Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana", "country_code": "GUF", "description": "The Guiana Space Centre is a European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a region of France in South America. Kourou is located at a latitude of 5°. In operation since 1968, it is a suitable location for a spaceport because of its equatorial location and open sea to the east.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_13_20200803142412.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/Cayenne", "total_launch_count": 325, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "GUF", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_34_20200803143527.jpg", "total_launch_count": 52, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 52 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": null, "title": null, "description": null, "feature_image": null, "url": "https://newsroom.arianespace.com/download?picid=55320&pn=PRESS%20KIT%20VV24%20(EN)-pdf", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Official Press Kit" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" } } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "arianespace", "title": "YouTube", "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/BZzcOxxeMyA/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzcOxxeMyA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Webcast" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2024-09-05T01:11:59Z", "end_time": "2024-09-05T03:16:55Z" }, { "priority": 11, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "arianespace", "title": "YouTube", "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/KgrF4wPqS8E/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgrF4wPqS8E", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Webcast" }, "language": { "id": 4, "name": "French", "code": "fr" }, "start_time": "2024-09-05T01:11:38Z", "end_time": "2024-09-05T03:16:50Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [ { "type": { "id": 10, "abbrev": "Liftoff", "description": "First upwards movement of the rocket" }, "relative_time": "P0D" }, { "type": { "id": 13, "abbrev": "Stage 2 Separation", "description": "Separation of the second stage from the first" }, "relative_time": "PT1M56S" }, { "type": { "id": 74, "abbrev": "Stage 3 Separation", "description": "Separation of the third stage from the second" }, "relative_time": "PT3M39S" }, { "type": { "id": 15, "abbrev": "Fairing Separation", "description": "Separation of the payload fairing" }, "relative_time": "PT3M56S" }, { "type": { "id": 30, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Separation", "description": "Separation of the kick stage from the previous stage" }, "relative_time": "PT5M52S" }, { "type": { "id": 73, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Burn", "description": "The kick stage conducts an engine burn in orbit." }, "relative_time": "PT7M36S" }, { "type": { "id": 73, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Burn", "description": "The kick stage conducts an engine burn in orbit." }, "relative_time": "PT54M36S" }, { "type": { "id": 35, "abbrev": "Payload Separation", "description": "Final deployment of the payload from the rocket" }, "relative_time": "PT57M32S" }, { "type": { "id": 131, "abbrev": "AOS", "description": "Acquisition of signal from the payload" }, "relative_time": "PT1H9M" }, { "type": { "id": 73, "abbrev": "Kick Stage Burn", "description": "The kick stage conducts an engine burn in orbit." }, "relative_time": "PT1H54M52S" } ], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega_image_20201111143622.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 22, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/22/?format=api", "name": "Copernicus", "description": "Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. 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