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/ba1331d1-2009-4083-80d9-ed654c05ad74/?format=api
https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/ba1331d1-2009-4083-80d9-ed654c05ad74/?format=api", "slug": "minotaur-i-nrol-111", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Minotaur I | NROL-111", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T03:54:50Z", "updates": [ { "id": 590, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Launch success confirmed by the US Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center", "info_url": "https://spacenews.com/northrop-grummans-minotaur-1-rocket-launches-three-classified-nro-payloads/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2021-06-15T16:02:13Z" }, { "id": 589, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Now targeting 13:35 UTC", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/NatReconOfc/status/1404754910667759616", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2021-06-15T11:09:33Z" }, { "id": 588, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Hold at T-minus 2 hours 30 minutes", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1404719074156978177", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2021-06-15T08:37:49Z" }, { "id": 576, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Targeting 11:00 UTC", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/NatReconOfc/status/1402309579967447041?s=20", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2021-06-08T17:41:08Z" }, { "id": 555, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Launch window confirmed. Setting GO.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/NatReconOfc/status/1399773021297168386?s=20", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2021-06-01T18:20:32Z" }, { "id": 524, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Launch NET June 15. Launch time TBD.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/NatReconOfc/status/1394360805945184260", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2021-05-17T18:52:58Z" } ], "net": "2021-06-15T13:35:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2021-06-15T15:30:00Z", "window_start": "2021-06-15T10:30:00Z", "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 257, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/257/?format=api", "name": "Northrop Grumman Space Systems", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NGSS", "description": "Northrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.", "administrator": "CEO: Kathy Warden", "founding_year": "2015", "launchers": "Antares | Minotaur | Pegasus", "spacecraft": "Cygnus", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 15, "consecutive_successful_launches": 15, "successful_launches": 15, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.northropgrumman.com/AboutUs/BusinessSectors/InnovationSystems/Pages/default.aspx", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman#Innovation_Systems", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/northrop2520grumman2520innovation2520systems_logo_20190207032451.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/northrop2520grumman2520innovation2520systems_image_20190207032451.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/northrop2520grumman2520space2520systems_nation_20230624130158.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 98, "configuration": { "id": 175, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/175/?format=api", "name": "Minotaur I", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "The Minotaur I launch system is derived from converted Minuteman II ICBMs and is used to launch small satellites for the US Government. The first and second stages, taken directly from decommissioned Minuteman missiles, are mated to the Orion third and fourth stages taken from the Pegasus XL air-launched rocket family. An optional hydrazine-powered fifth stage called HAPS can be used.The Minotaur I launch system is derived from converted Minuteman II ICBMs and is used to launch small satellites for the US Government. An optional hydrazine-powered fifth stage called HAPS can be used.", "family": "Minotaur", "full_name": "Minotaur I", "manufacturer": { "id": 100, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/100/?format=api", "name": "Orbital Sciences Corporation", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "OSC", "description": null, "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 72, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 65, "failed_launches": 7, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.orbital.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Sciences_Corporation", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": null }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "Minotaur OSP-SLV", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 5, "length": 19.21, "diameter": 1.67, "maiden_flight": "2000-01-27", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 36, "leo_capacity": 580, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 935, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/minotaur2520i_image_20190224012247.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_I", "total_launch_count": 12, "consecutive_successful_launches": 12, "successful_launches": 12, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 426, "name": "NROL-111", "description": "Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 56, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/56/?format=api", "agency_id": 44, "name": "Launch Area 0 B", "description": "LP-0B became operational in 1999,and was subsequently upgraded in 2003 with the construction of a mobile service tower, which was completed in 2004. It is active, and is currently used by Northrop Grumman Minotaur rockets. The first launch from LP-0B was of a Minotaur I in December 2006, and was the first launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Regional_Spaceport_Launch_Pad_0#Pad-0B", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=37.831,-75.4911", "latitude": "37.831", "longitude": "-75.4911", "location": { "id": 21, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/21/?format=api", "name": "Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_21_20200803142423.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 80, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_56_20200803143541.jpg", "total_launch_count": 8, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 8 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": null, "title": "Minotaur NROL111", "description": "NROL-111 Mission UpdateSet to launch | June 15, 2021 between 6:30-11:30 a.m. EDTWatch live on NASA Wallops YouTube channel.Follow our social media accounts:&nbs", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.northropgrumman.com/space/minotaur-nrol111/", "type": null, "language": null } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "Minotaur I NROL-111", "description": "Minotaur I NROL-111 with initial coverage and post coverage cutThumbnail Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fOnO6fxZVp4/hqdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOnO6fxZVp4", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null }, { "priority": 10, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "NRO L-111 Launch", "description": "A Northrop Grumman Corporation #Minotaur rocket carrying three national security payloads for National Reconnaissance Office is scheduled to launch June 15 a...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ePwcJYE_BgI/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwcJYE_BgI", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/minotaur2520i_image_20190224012247.jpeg", "infographic": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/infographic_images/minotaur2520i_infographic_20210615033109.jpeg", "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6092, "location_launch_attempt_count": 70, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 8, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 10, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 55, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_turnaround": "P334DT23H49M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 54, "name": "NROL-111 Mission Patch", "priority": 9, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/nrol-1112520mi_mission_patch_20210609140909.png", "agency": { "id": 181, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/181/?format=api", "name": "National Reconnaissance Office", "type": "Government" } } ], "type": "detailed" }{ "id": "ba1331d1-2009-4083-80d9-ed654c05ad74", "url": "