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/8f58329f-8311-4f6d-8aa5-2bc2236a8f68/?format=api
{ "id": "8f58329f-8311-4f6d-8aa5-2bc2236a8f68", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/8f58329f-8311-4f6d-8aa5-2bc2236a8f68/?format=api", "slug": "energiyaburan-buran-ok-1k", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Energiya/Buran | Buran OK-1K", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T04:19:19Z", "updates": [], "net": "1988-11-15T03:00:01Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1988-11-15T03:00:01Z", "window_start": "1988-11-15T03:00:01Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 66, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/66/?format=api", "name": "Soviet Space Program", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "CCCP", "description": "The Soviet space program, was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) actived from 1930s until disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.\r\n\r\nThe Soviet Union's space program was mainly based on the cosmonautic exploration of space and the development of the expandable launch vehicles, which had been split between many design bureaus competing against each other. Over its 60-years of history, the Russian program was responsible for a number of pioneering feats and accomplishments in the human space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the Moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": "1931", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 2456, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 2288, "failed_launches": 168, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_logo_20191229081307.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_image_20191229081306.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_nation_20191229081307.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 6126, "configuration": { "id": 315, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/315/?format=api", "name": "Energiya/Buran", "active": false, "reusable": true, "description": "Energia (Russian: Энергия, Energiya, \"Energy\") (GRAU 11K25) was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift partially recoverable launch system for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft.", "family": "Energiya", "full_name": "Energiya/Buran", "manufacturer": { "id": 1000, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1000/?format=api", "name": "Energia", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "OKB-1", "description": null, "administrator": null, "founding_year": "1946", "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": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(corporation)", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": null }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 97.0, "diameter": 17.65, "maiden_flight": "1988-11-15", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 2629, "leo_capacity": 90400, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 35301, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/energiya2fbura_image_20210903112117.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia", "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 1, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 756, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/756/?format=api", "mission_end": "1988-11-15T06:25:24Z", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 537, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/537/?format=api", "name": "Buran OK-1K", "serial_number": "1.01", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT3H25M23S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Destroyed" }, "description": "First and only Buran orbiter to fly in space. It was destroyed in 2002 when the hangar it was stored in collapsed.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 28, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/28/?format=api", "name": "Buran", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Spaceplane" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "RFSA", "description": "The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.", "administrator": "Administrator: Yuri Borisov", "founding_year": "1992", "launchers": "Soyuz", "spacecraft": "Soyuz", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_image_20190207032459.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_logo_20190207032459.png" }, "in_use": false, "capability": "Autonomously carrying cargo and crew (never achieved) to Low Earth Orbit.", "history": "The Buran was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft that began development in 1974 at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Moscow and was formally suspended in 1993.", "details": "The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union as a response to the United States Space Shuttle programme. The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space exploration. Development work included sending BOR-5 test vehicles on multiple sub-orbital test flights, and atmospheric flights of the OK-GLI aerodynamic prototype. Buran completed one uncrewed orbital spaceflight in 1988, after which it was recovered successfully. Although the Buran class was similar in appearance to NASA's Space Shuttle orbiter, and could similarly operate as a re-entry spaceplane, its internal and functional design was distinct. For example, the main engines during launch were on the Energia rocket and were not taken into orbit by the spacecraft. Smaller rocket engines on the craft's body provided propulsion in orbit and de-orbital burns, similar to the Space Shuttle's OMS pods.", "maiden_flight": "1988-11-15", "height": 36.37, "diameter": null, "human_rated": true, "crew_capacity": 4, "payload_capacity": 30000, "payload_return_capacity": null, "flight_life": "At least 15-20 days, but its only flight lasted only 206 minutes.", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/buran_image_20210902151254.jpg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)", "info_link": "" } }, "landing": { "id": 387, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Buran spaceplane autonomously landed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after its only flight.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 29, "name": "Yubileyniy Airfield", "abbrev": "UAON", "description": "Built for Buran landings, used as airport.", "location": { "id": 15, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/15/?format=api", "name": "Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan", "country_code": "KAZ", "description": "The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_15_20200803142517.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Qyzylorda", "total_launch_count": 1555, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "successful_landings": 1 }, "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Horizontal Landing", "abbrev": "HL", "description": "Horizontal landing on a runway or flat surface." } }, "docking_events": [] } }, "mission": { "id": 4516, "name": "Buran OK-1K", "description": "First and only flight of the Buran space shuttle", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 103, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/103/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "110/37 (110L)", "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=45.964747,63.304744", "latitude": "45.964747", "longitude": "63.304744", "location": { "id": 15, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/15/?format=api", "name": "Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan", "country_code": "KAZ", "description": "The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_15_20200803142517.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Qyzylorda", "total_launch_count": 1555, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "KAZ", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_103_20200803143220.jpg", "total_launch_count": 3, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 3 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/energiya2fbura_image_20210903112117.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 3358, "location_launch_attempt_count": 887, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 2228, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 105, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 39, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 81, "pad_turnaround": "P5835DT20H48M6S", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
