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/c8cf3955-4f92-4c20-8e63-8353a77a2ab3/?format=api
{ "id": "c8cf3955-4f92-4c20-8e63-8353a77a2ab3", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/c8cf3955-4f92-4c20-8e63-8353a77a2ab3/?format=api", "slug": "soyuz-u-soyuz-16", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Soyuz-U | Soyuz 16", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T08:55:38Z", "updates": [], "net": "1974-12-02T09:40:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1974-12-02T09:40:00Z", "window_start": "1974-12-02T09:40:00Z", "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 66, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/66/?format=api", "name": "Soviet Space Program", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "CCCP", "description": "The Soviet space program, was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) actived from 1930s until disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.\r\n\r\nThe Soviet Union's space program was mainly based on the cosmonautic exploration of space and the development of the expandable launch vehicles, which had been split between many design bureaus competing against each other. Over its 60-years of history, the Russian program was responsible for a number of pioneering feats and accomplishments in the human space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the Moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": "1931", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 2456, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 2288, "failed_launches": 168, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_logo_20191229081307.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_image_20191229081306.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soviet2520space2520program_nation_20191229081307.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 246, "configuration": { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/37/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz U", "active": false, "reusable": false, "description": "", "family": "Soyuz", "full_name": "Soyuz U", "manufacturer": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "RFSA", "description": "The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.", "administrator": "Administrator: Yuri Borisov", "founding_year": "1992", "launchers": "Soyuz", "spacecraft": "Soyuz", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 330, "consecutive_successful_launches": 54, "successful_launches": 319, "failed_launches": 11, "pending_launches": 11, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://en.roscosmos.ru/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Federal_Space_Agency", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_logo_20190207032459.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_image_20190207032459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520federal2520space2520agency25202528roscosmos2529_nation_20230531052758.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 51.1, "diameter": 2.95, "maiden_flight": "1973-05-18", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 313, "leo_capacity": 6900, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz2520u_image_20190222031023.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-U", "total_launch_count": 714, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 694, "failed_launches": 20, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 340, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/340/?format=api", "mission_end": "1974-12-08T08:03:35Z", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 2960, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 105, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/105/?format=api", "name": "Anatoly Filipchenko", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P10DT21H3M58S", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1928-02-26", "date_of_death": "2022-08-07", "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Фили́пченко; born February 26, 1928) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. 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Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33 were intended to dock with Salyut space stations, but failed to do so.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/nikolay2520rukavishnikov_image_20190217072711.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Rukavishnikov", "last_flight": "1979-04-10T17:34:34Z", "first_flight": "1971-04-22T23:54:06Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 2961, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 105, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/105/?format=api", "name": "Anatoly Filipchenko", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P10DT21H3M58S", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1928-02-26", "date_of_death": "2022-08-07", "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Фили́пченко; born February 26, 1928) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. He was born in Davydovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/anatoly2520filipchenko_image_20181128231317.png", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Filipchenko", "last_flight": "1974-12-02T09:40:00Z", "first_flight": "1969-10-12T10:44:42Z" } }, { "id": 749, "role": { "id": 3, "role": "Flight Engineer", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 631, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/631/?format=api", "name": "Nikolay Rukavishnikov", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P9DT21H10M35S", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1932-09-18", "date_of_death": "2002-10-19", "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33 were intended to dock with Salyut space stations, but failed to do so.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/nikolay2520rukavishnikov_image_20190217072711.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Rukavishnikov", "last_flight": "1979-04-10T17:34:34Z", "first_flight": "1971-04-22T23:54:06Z" } } ], "spacecraft": { "id": 191, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/191/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz 16", "serial_number": "Soyuz 7K-TM 11F615A12 #73", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P5DT22H23M35S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Soyuz 16 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 2 December 1974 09:40 UTC. It launched two cosmonauts on a test flight for the upcoming Apollo-Soyuz mission. The crew was Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/1/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "RFSA", "description": "The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. 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