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/c4a4f111-dd24-491a-bc44-8bcaf2e08351/?format=api
{ "id": "c4a4f111-dd24-491a-bc44-8bcaf2e08351", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/c4a4f111-dd24-491a-bc44-8bcaf2e08351/?format=api", "slug": "spaceshiptwo-galactic-07", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 07", "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": "2024-05-01T23:25:01Z", "updates": [ { "id": 7421, "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET June 8.", "info_url": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/news/galactic-07-mission-launch-window-opens-june-8", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2024-05-01T23:25:05Z" }, { "id": 5644, "profile_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding flight NET Q2 2024", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1722383597137481955", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2023-11-08T22:44:34Z" } ], "net": "2024-06-08T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 5, "name": "Day", "abbrev": "DAY", "description": "The T-0 is expected on the given day." }, "window_end": "2024-06-08T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2024-06-08T00:00:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 1024, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "VG", "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": "2004", "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 66, "consecutive_successful_launches": 10, "successful_launches": 61, "failed_launches": 5, "pending_launches": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_logo_20230509082346.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_nation_20230617045127.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8092, "configuration": { "id": 465, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/465/?format=api", "name": "SpaceShipTwo", "active": true, "reusable": true, "description": "The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.", "family": "", "full_name": "SpaceShipTwo", "manufacturer": { "id": 1024, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "VG", "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": "2004", "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 66, "consecutive_successful_launches": 10, "successful_launches": 61, "failed_launches": 5, "pending_launches": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_logo_20230509082346.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_nation_20230617045127.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 1, "max_stage": 1, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 8.2, "maiden_flight": "2010-10-10", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 9, "leo_capacity": 0, "gto_capacity": 0, "to_thrust": 310, "apogee": 110, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_image_20210522140909.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo", "total_launch_count": 66, "consecutive_successful_launches": 10, "successful_launches": 61, "failed_launches": 5, "pending_launches": 1, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 823, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/823/?format=api", "mission_end": null, "destination": "Suborbital", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 473, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/473/?format=api", "name": "VSS Unity", "serial_number": "N202VG", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT3H48M43S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 29, "mission_ends_count": 29, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 27, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/27/?format=api", "name": "SpaceShipTwo", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Spaceplane" }, "agency": { "id": 1024, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "VG", "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": "2004", "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_logo_20230509082346.png" }, "in_use": true, "capability": "SpaceShipTwo is carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glides back to Earth and performs a conventional runway landing.", "history": "The spaceship was officially unveiled to the public on 7 December 2009 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. On 29 April 2013, after nearly three years of unpowered testing, the first one constructed successfully performed its first powered test flight.", "details": "The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.", "maiden_flight": "2010-10-10", "height": 18.0, "diameter": 8.2, "human_rated": true, "crew_capacity": 8, "payload_capacity": null, "payload_return_capacity": null, "flight_life": "Short suborbital flights", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_image_20210522133744.jpeg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo", "info_link": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/" } }, "landing": { "id": 1274, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "VSS Unity will land back at Spaceport America after this flight", "downrange_distance": 0.0, "location": { "id": 13, "name": "Spaceport America", "abbrev": "SA", "description": "FAA-licensed spaceport in New Mexico.", "location": { "id": 31, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/31/?format=api", "name": "Spaceport America, NM, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "", "map_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/launch_images/location_31_20200803142505.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/Denver", "total_launch_count": 4, "total_landing_count": 4 }, "successful_landings": 3 }, "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Horizontal Landing", "abbrev": "HL", "description": "Horizontal landing on a runway or flat surface." } }, "docking_events": [] } }, "mission": { "id": 6646, "name": "Galactic 07", "description": "Seventh commercial Virgin Galactic mission.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Tourism", "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 1024, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "VG", "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": "2004", "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 66, "consecutive_successful_launches": 10, "successful_launches": 61, "failed_launches": 5, "pending_launches": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic", "logo_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_logo_20230509082346.png", "image_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_nation_20230617045127.jpg" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 191, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/191/?format=api", "agency_id": 1024, "name": "Spaceport America", "description": null, "info_url": "https://www.spaceportamerica.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=32.9902778,-106.9719162", "latitude": "32.9902778", "longitude": "-106.9719162", "location": { "id": 144, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/144/?format=api", "name": "Air launch to Suborbital flight", "country_code": "???", "description": "", "map_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/launch_images/location_144_20200803142439.jpg", "timezone_name": "", "total_launch_count": 85, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/launch_images/pad_spaceport_america_20210522162030.jpg", "total_launch_count": 13, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 0 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_image_20210522140909.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 86, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 14, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 67, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_turnaround": "P133DT6H17M55S", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
