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/7766f3bb-674c-4c71-b986-963bd633fcfe/?format=api
{ "id": "7766f3bb-674c-4c71-b986-963bd633fcfe", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/7766f3bb-674c-4c71-b986-963bd633fcfe/?format=api", "slug": "electron-were-not-hawking-around-3x-hawkeye-360", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Electron | We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Go for Launch", "abbrev": "Go", "description": "Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources." }, "last_updated": "2026-10-20T20:57:12Z", "updates": [ { "id": 16521, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "GO for launch.", "info_url": "https://x.com/rocketlab/status/2112308260628050062", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-10-19T22:25:00Z" }, { "id": 16497, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added tentative launch window.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=66207.msg2832951#msg2832951", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-10-15T17:54:00Z" }, { "id": 16466, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET October 21.", "info_url": "https://x.com/rocketlab/status/2109761867967303697", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-10-12T23:33:00Z" }, { "id": 15763, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET Q3, from LC-1.", "info_url": "https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/32340-permitting-decision-summary-cluster-16-pdf", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-08-06T15:20:00Z" }, { "id": 1576, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding launch", "info_url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220419006088/en/Rocket-Lab-Secures-Multi-Launch-Contract-with-HawkEye-360-Confirms-First-Launch-Planned-from-Virginia", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2022-04-20T08:40:05Z" } ], "net": "2026-10-21T07:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2026-10-21T08:45:00Z", "window_start": "2026-10-21T07:00:00Z", "probability": null, "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": 97, "consecutive_successful_launches": 56, "successful_launches": 93, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 61, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com", "wiki_url": "https://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": 7567, "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": 97, "consecutive_successful_launches": 56, "successful_launches": 93, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 61, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com", "wiki_url": "https://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": 97, "consecutive_successful_launches": 56, "successful_launches": 93, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 58, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6792, "name": "We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)", "description": "HawkEye 360 is a a space-based civil global intelligence satellite network using radio frequency (RF) technology to help monitor transportation across air, land and sea and assist with emergencies, and to provide civil SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) mission.\r\n\r\nThe constellation of small satellites (named Hawk ) will collect information on specific radio signals worldwide to provide high-precision radio frequency mapping and analytics from Low Earth orbit (LEO).", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 1061, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1061/?format=api", "name": "HawkEye 360", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "he360", "description": "HawkEye 360 is an American geospatial analytics company headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. It is a commercial seller of radio frequency signal location data gathered by a satellite constellation.", "administrator": "CEO: John Serafini", "founding_year": "2015", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "HawkEye 360", "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": "https://www.he360.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HawkEye_360", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/hawkeye2520360_logo_20230807090248.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/hawkeye2520360_nation_20230807090249.jpg" } ], "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. 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": 84, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "country_code": "NZL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_65_20200803143549.jpg", "total_launch_count": 43, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 43 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "rocketlabcorp.com", "title": "We're Not Hawking Around", "description": "Rocket Lab will launch a dedicated mission on Electron for HawkEye 360, a constellation operator that detects, geolocates, and characterizes a broad range of radio frequency signals to make it easier for people in the government to use signals intelligence for their defense and security missions.", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/launches/hawkeye-360/", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Page" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" } } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "Rocket Lab", "title": "Rocket Lab - 'We're Not Hawking Around' Launch", "description": "", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qY2qCqF1PvE/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2qCqF1PvE", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Webcast" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2026-10-21T06:45:00Z", "end_time": null } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7420, "location_launch_attempt_count": 85, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 44, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 98, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 247, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 16, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 9, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 19, "pad_turnaround": "P40DT3H32M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 1351, "name": "We're Not Hawking Around Patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/we2527re2520n_mission_patch_20261012233229.png", "agency": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "type": "Commercial" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
