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/8c2412ae-fbef-443f-aae8-db538f38eec6/?format=api
{ "id": "8c2412ae-fbef-443f-aae8-db538f38eec6", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/8c2412ae-fbef-443f-aae8-db538f38eec6/?format=api", "slug": "h3-24-htv-x1", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "H3-24 | HTV-X1", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "To Be Determined", "abbrev": "TBD", "description": "Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources." }, "last_updated": "2025-03-12T16:24:56Z", "updates": [ { "id": 10409, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET October.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/BeyondGravity_S/status/1899848327719420279", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-03-12T16:24:00Z" }, { "id": 8997, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET September 2025.", "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/03-final-iss-nac.pdf", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-10-25T06:31:00Z" }, { "id": 6228, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Tweaked approximate launch date per launch manifest (P.129 of source).", "info_url": "https://www8.cao.go.jp/space/comittee/dai108/siryou2_2.pdf", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-01-09T14:30:39Z" }, { "id": 2689, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET January 2024", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1585365132116635648?s=46&t=g2eQXdUCcHvK4v-NYgOQgQ", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2022-10-27T01:47:02Z" } ], "net": "2025-10-31T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 7, "name": "Month", "abbrev": "M", "description": "The T-0 is expected in the given month." }, "window_end": "2025-10-31T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-10-31T00:00:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 98, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/98/?format=api", "name": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "MHI", "description": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group.\r\n\r\nMHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.", "administrator": "President: Seiji Izumisawa", "founding_year": "1884", "launchers": "H-I, H-II, H-III", "spacecraft": "Kounotori | HTV", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 54, "consecutive_successful_launches": 6, "successful_launches": 53, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 13, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.mhi.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_logo_20200117065724.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_image_20200117065724.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_nation_20240112111043.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2540, "configuration": { "id": 204, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/204/?format=api", "name": "H3-24", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "The H3 Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system in development in Japan.\r\nEach H3 booster configuration has a two-digit and a letter designation that indicates the features of that configuration. The first digit represents the number of LE-9 engines on the main stage, either \"2\" or \"3\". The second digit indicates the number of SRB-3 solid rocket boosters attached to the base of the rocket, and can be \"0\", \"2\" or \"4\". All layouts of solid boosters are symmetrical. The letter in the end shows the length of the payload fairing, either short \"S\" or long \"L\". For example, an H3-24L has two engines, four solid rocket boosters, and a long fairing, whereas an H3-30S has three engines, no solid rocket boosters, and a short fairing.", "family": "H3", "full_name": "H3-24", "manufacturer": { "id": 98, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/98/?format=api", "name": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "MHI", "description": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group.\r\n\r\nMHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.", "administrator": "President: Seiji Izumisawa", "founding_year": "1884", "launchers": "H-I, H-II, H-III", "spacecraft": "Kounotori | HTV", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 54, "consecutive_successful_launches": 6, "successful_launches": 53, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 13, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.mhi.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_logo_20200117065724.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_image_20200117065724.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mitsubishi2520heavy2520industries_nation_20240112111043.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "24", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 63.0, "diameter": 5.27, "maiden_flight": null, "launch_cost": "50000000", "launch_mass": null, "leo_capacity": null, "gto_capacity": 7900, "to_thrust": 12142, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iii_image_20221104084531.jpeg", "info_url": "http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2015/07/20150702_h3.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H3_(rocket)", "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 5, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 5860, "name": "HTV-X1", "description": "First flight of the upgraded Japanese HTV-X spacecraft designed to resupply the International Space Station.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Resupply", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "JAXA", "description": "The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.", "administrator": "Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa", "founding_year": "2003", "launchers": "H-II", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 36, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 32, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.jaxa.jp/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Aerospace_Exploration_Agency", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_logo_20190207032440.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_image_20190207032440.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_nation_20230531052930.png" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 209, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/209/?format=api", "agency_id": 37, "name": "Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinobu_Launch_Complex", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=30.400938,130.97564", "latitude": "30.400938", "longitude": "130.97564", "location": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/26/?format=api", "name": "Tanegashima Space Center, Japan", "country_code": "JPN", "description": "The Tanegashima Space Center is the largest rocket-launch complex in Japan. It is located on the southeastern tip of Tanegashima, an island located south of Kyushu, an island and region and Japan. It was established in 1969 when the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed, and is now run by JAXA. The activities that take place at TNSC include assembly, testing, launching, and tracking satellites, as well as rocket engine firing tests.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_26_20200803142507.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Tokyo", "total_launch_count": 94, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "JPN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_yoshinobu_launch_complex_lp-2_20230707124715.jpg", "total_launch_count": 14, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 14 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iii_image_20221104084531.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/17/?format=api", "name": "International Space Station", "description": "The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. 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