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/91f5f940-da5a-44de-a10a-b44c59066285/?format=api
{ "id": "91f5f940-da5a-44de-a10a-b44c59066285", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/91f5f940-da5a-44de-a10a-b44c59066285/?format=api", "slug": "vega-c-kompsat-6-platino-1", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Vega-C | KOMPSAT-6 & PLATiNO 1", "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": "2026-01-11T21:42:12Z", "updates": [ { "id": 13601, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET Q3, with PLATiNO 1.", "info_url": "https://www.telecomreviewasia.com/news/industry-news/28052-south-koreas-arirang-6-satellite-faces-fresh-launch-delay/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-01-11T21:42:00Z" }, { "id": 13380, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET Q3 2026.", "info_url": "https://www.kasa.go.kr/SynapDocViewServer/viewer/doc.html?key=62db11ad983e4989968581324ea06ead&convType=html&convLocale=ko_KR&contextPath=/SynapDocViewServer/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-17T22:02:00Z" }, { "id": 13158, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "NET February 2026", "info_url": "https://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=761", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2025-12-06T07:26:00Z" }, { "id": 11948, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET Q1 2026.", "info_url": "https://pulse.mk.co.kr/news/english/11344802", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-08-22T17:53:00Z" }, { "id": 4246, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET December 2024.", "info_url": "https://www.dongascience.com/news.php?idx=60035", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2023-05-31T09:34:07Z" }, { "id": 3247, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Updating launch vehicle", "info_url": "https://tass.com/science/1569951", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2023-02-01T16:41:43Z" }, { "id": 293, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/spacevogel_profile_20210217192809.jpg", "comment": "Launch is NET Q2 2022 due to payload readiness delays.", "info_url": null, "created_by": "spacevogel", "created_on": "2021-02-19T07:15:45Z" } ], "net": "2026-09-30T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 10, "name": "Quarter 3", "abbrev": "Q3", "description": "The T-0 is expected in the third quarter of the given year." }, "window_end": "2026-09-30T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "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. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.", "administrator": "CEO: Giulio Ranzo", "founding_year": "1908", "launchers": "Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 23, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.avio.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avio", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio2520s.p.a_logo_20221130103121.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio_social_log_image_20250211190007.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 127, "configuration": { "id": 127, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/127/?format=api", "name": "Vega-C", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.", "family": "Vega", "full_name": "Vega-C", "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. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.", "administrator": "CEO: Giulio Ranzo", "founding_year": "1908", "launchers": "Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 23, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.avio.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avio", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio2520s.p.a_logo_20221130103121.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio_social_log_image_20250211190007.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 34.8, "diameter": 3.0, "maiden_flight": "2022-07-13", "launch_cost": "48000000", "launch_mass": 210, "leo_capacity": 3300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 2974, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "info_url": "https://www.arianespace.com/vehicle/vega/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(rocket)", "total_launch_count": 6, "consecutive_successful_launches": 4, "successful_launches": 5, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 21, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6163, "name": "KOMPSAT-6 & PLATiNO 1", "description": "Korean Multi-purpose Satellite 6 (KOMPSAT-6) is the sixth South Korean Earth observation satellite of the KOMPSAT series. It is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar with a ground resolution between 0.5 and 20 meters.\r\n\r\nPLATiNO 1 is an experimental X-band SAR earth observation satellite project by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), with a radar payload from Thales Alenia Space Italia. The X-band SAR will first operate in passive mode at 619 km altitude, then in active mode after the satellites moves lower to a 410 km orbit.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 36, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/36/?format=api", "name": "Italian Space Agency", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "ITA", "abbrev": "ASI", "description": null, "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 3, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 3, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.asi.it/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Space_Agency", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": null }, { "id": 41, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/41/?format=api", "name": "Korea Aerospace Research Institute", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "KOR", "abbrev": "KARI", "description": "The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) established in 1989, is the aeronautics and space agency of Republic of Korea. Its main laboratories are located in Daejeon, in the Daedeok Science Town.", "administrator": "Administrator: Lee Sang-Ryool", "founding_year": "1989", "launchers": "Nuri", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 8, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 5, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.kari.kr/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Aerospace_Research_Institute", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/korea2520aerospace2520research2520institute_logo_20200806032236.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/korea2520aerospace2520research2520institute_nation_20230604194037.jpg" } ], "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": 330, "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": 54, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 54 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7267, "location_launch_attempt_count": 337, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 58, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 4, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 94, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 7, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_turnaround": "P29D", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
