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/8bf5f603-cdb5-456c-b266-bbe53f24891d/?format=api
{ "id": "8bf5f603-cdb5-456c-b266-bbe53f24891d", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/8bf5f603-cdb5-456c-b266-bbe53f24891d/?format=api", "slug": "soyuz-21bfregat-m-kosmos-2576", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Kosmos 2576", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-03-06T06:42:35Z", "updates": [ { "id": 7556, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/tskelso/status/1791393566469796311", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-05-17T09:26:47Z" }, { "id": 7555, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Updated launch time and pad.", "info_url": "https://tvzvezda.ru/news/2024517417-KRviF.html", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-05-17T01:45:04Z" }, { "id": 7547, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff.", "info_url": "https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20824471", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-05-16T23:26:43Z" }, { "id": 7523, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Adding launch per marine navigation warnings; Payload and launch vehicle identities uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60862.msg2591234#msg2591234", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-05-13T10:19:12Z" } ], "net": "2024-05-16T21:21:39Z", "net_precision": { "id": 0, "name": "Second", "abbrev": "SEC", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the second." }, "window_end": "2024-05-16T21:21:39Z", "window_start": "2024-05-16T21:21:39Z", "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": 8244, "configuration": { "id": 134, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/134/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the 21st-century version of the Russian Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage carrier rocket for placing payloads into low Earth orbit. The first-stage boosters and two core stages feature uprated engines with improved injection systems, compared to the previous versions of the Soyuz. Digital flight control and telemetry systems allow the rocket to be launched from a fixed launch platform, whereas the launch platforms for earlier Soyuz rockets had to be rotated as the rocket could not perform a roll to change its heading in flight.", "family": "Soyuz", "full_name": "Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M", "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": "Fregat-M", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 46.3, "diameter": 10.3, "maiden_flight": "2008-07-26", "launch_cost": "48500000", "launch_mass": 313, "leo_capacity": 8200, "gto_capacity": 3250, "to_thrust": 4150, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_2.1b_image_20230802085331.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-2", "total_launch_count": 31, "consecutive_successful_launches": 31, "successful_launches": 31, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 4, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6825, "name": "Kosmos 2576", "description": "Russian military payload of unknown purposes.\r\n\r\nHitchhiking Payloads: SITRO-AIS 53-56; Zorkiy-2M-4 & 6", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 175, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/175/?format=api", "name": "Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "MOD_RUS", "description": "The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces.", "administrator": "Minister: Gen. 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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. Consequently, Plesetsk has seen considerably more activity since the 2000s.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_6_20200803142434.jpg", "timezone_name": "Europe/Moscow", "total_launch_count": 1674, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "RUS", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_85_20200803143554.jpg", "total_launch_count": 323, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 323 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_2.1b_lift_image_20240517054939.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6682, "location_launch_attempt_count": 1668, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 320, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 139, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 93, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_turnaround": "P97DT14H17M55S", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
