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/af0fc4b8-34ec-42d6-b58e-22ef9856abdc/?format=api
{ "id": "af0fc4b8-34ec-42d6-b58e-22ef9856abdc", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/af0fc4b8-34ec-42d6-b58e-22ef9856abdc/?format=api", "slug": "kuaizhou-1a-jilin-1-02a", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Kuaizhou 1A | Jilin-1-02A", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-12-13T03:33:02Z", "updates": [], "net": "2019-11-13T03:40:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2019-11-13T03:58:00Z", "window_start": "2019-11-13T03:32:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 194, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/194/?format=api", "name": "ExPace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "EP", "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di", "founding_year": "2016", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 32, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 4, "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/ExPace", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 2565, "configuration": { "id": 135, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/135/?format=api", "name": "Kuaizhou 1A", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Kuaizhou is a family of Chinese \"quick-reaction\" orbital launch vehicles. Flying since 2013, Kuaizhou 1 and 1A consist of three solid-fueled rocket stages, with a liquid-fueled fourth stage as part of the satellite system.", "family": "Kuaizhou", "full_name": "Kuaizhou 1A", "manufacturer": { "id": 194, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/194/?format=api", "name": "ExPace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "EP", "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di", "founding_year": "2016", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 32, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 4, "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/ExPace", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "1A", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 19.4, "diameter": 1.4, "maiden_flight": "2017-01-09", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 30, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuaizhou", "total_launch_count": 31, "consecutive_successful_launches": 2, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 1047, "name": "Jilin-1-02A", "description": "Jilin-1 is a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": null, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 21, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/21/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Launch Area 95A", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.969117,100.343333", "latitude": "40.969117", "longitude": "100.343333", "location": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/17/?format=api", "name": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese spaceport located between the Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia and Hangtian Town, Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu Province. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City (Base 10).", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_17_20200803142429.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 277, "total_landing_count": 2 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_21_20200803143253.jpg", "total_launch_count": 65, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 65 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "SciNews", "title": "Kuaizhou-1A launches Jilin-1 Gaofen 02A", "description": "A Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) launch vehicle launched the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02A satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China, on 13 November 2019, at 03:40 UTC (11:40 local...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CNI5Hd2a0vs/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNI5Hd2a0vs", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Recap" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2019-11-13T09:39:27Z", "end_time": "2019-11-13T09:41:34Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 5900, "location_launch_attempt_count": 121, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 15, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 4, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 80, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 7, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_turnaround": "P54DT20H58M", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
