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/b47031f1-8e42-434a-94ed-bbf4f85cff09/?format=api
{ "id": "b47031f1-8e42-434a-94ed-bbf4f85cff09", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/b47031f1-8e42-434a-94ed-bbf4f85cff09/?format=api", "slug": "spectrum-elsa-m", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Spectrum | ELSA-M", "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": "2026-03-13T13:23:32Z", "updates": [ { "id": 14267, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding launch NET 2028", "info_url": "https://europeanspaceflight.com/isar-aerospace-to-launch-astroscale-elsa-m-orbital-debris-removal-mission/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2026-03-13T13:23:00Z" } ], "net": "2028-12-31T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 14, "name": "Year", "abbrev": "Y", "description": "The T-0 is expected in the given year." }, "window_end": "2028-12-31T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2028-12-31T00:00:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 1046, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1046/?format=api", "name": "Isar Aerospace", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "DEU", "abbrev": "ISAR", "description": "Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 2018.", "administrator": "CEO: Daniel Metzler", "founding_year": "2018", "launchers": "Spectrum", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 8, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.isaraerospace.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isar_Aerospace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/isar2520aerospace_logo_20230125151814.jpeg", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spectrum_on_the_image_20250321072643.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/isar_aerospace__image_20241021093234.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8941, "configuration": { "id": 491, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/491/?format=api", "name": "Spectrum", "active": false, "reusable": false, "description": "Spectrum is a small launch vehicle developed by German company Isar Aerospace.", "family": "", "full_name": "Spectrum", "manufacturer": { "id": 1046, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1046/?format=api", "name": "Isar Aerospace", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "DEU", "abbrev": "ISAR", "description": "Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 2018.", "administrator": "CEO: Daniel Metzler", "founding_year": "2018", "launchers": "Spectrum", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 8, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.isaraerospace.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isar_Aerospace", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/isar2520aerospace_logo_20230125151814.jpeg", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spectrum_on_the_image_20250321072643.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/isar_aerospace__image_20241021093234.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 28.0, "diameter": 2.0, "maiden_flight": "2025-03-30", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": null, "leo_capacity": 1000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 675, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spectrum_on_the_image_20250321072643.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.isaraerospace.com/spectrum", "wiki_url": null, "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 8, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7536, "name": "ELSA-M", "description": "ELSA-M (End of Life Services by Astroscale – Multiple) is Astroscale’s commercial satellite service designed to remove inactive satellites from orbit. It is the world's first End-of-Life (EOL) service for prepared, full-sized commercial end customers, harnessing magnetic capture for multiple satellite removals. The in-orbit demonstration mission is a partnership programme led by Astroscale and supported by the UK Space Agency, ESA, and the commercial satellite operator Eutelsat through the Sunrise Partnership Project, a public–private partnership between ESA and Eutelsat Group.\r\n\r\nThe mission will safely approach and dock with a Eutelsat OneWeb communications satellite at its end of life, then remove it from orbit. This world first commercial ‘de-orbit as a service’ demonstration showcases the technologies and operational capability needed to reduce collision risk in Earth’s increasingly crowded Low Earth Orbit.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Technology", "orbit": { "id": 13, "name": "Polar Orbit", "abbrev": "PO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 1077, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1077/?format=api", "name": "Astroscale", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "ASC", "description": "Astroscale Holdings Inc. is a private orbital debris removal company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company is developing satellite end-of-life and active debris removal services to mitigate the growing and hazardous buildup of debris in space.", "administrator": "COO: Chris Blackerby", "founding_year": "2013", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "ELSA-d | ADRAS-J", "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": "https://astroscale.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroscale", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/astroscale_logo_image_20240325075850.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/astroscale_nation_20230929085910.jpg" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 51, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/51/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Orbital Launch Pad", "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And%C3%B8ya_Space", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=69.1084,15.5895", "latitude": "69.1084", "longitude": "15.5895", "location": { "id": 161, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/161/?format=api", "name": "Andøya Spaceport", "country_code": "NOR", "description": "Andøya Space, also named Andøya Space Center and formerly Andøya Rocket Range, is a rocket launch site, rocket range, and spaceport on Andøya island (the northernmost in the Vesterålen archipelago) in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_161_20240109072235.jpg", "timezone_name": "Europe/Oslo", "total_launch_count": 1, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "NOR", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_51_20200803143605.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 1 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spectrum_on_the_image_20250321072643.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7671, "location_launch_attempt_count": 10, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 10, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 10, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 44, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_turnaround": "P550D", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
