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/c8d6f024-0a6a-4b07-8c05-97648be4d827/?format=api
{ "id": "c8d6f024-0a6a-4b07-8c05-97648be4d827", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/c8d6f024-0a6a-4b07-8c05-97648be4d827/?format=api", "slug": "kinetica-1-9-satellites", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Kinetica 1 | 9 satellites", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-12-12T13:49:43Z", "updates": [ { "id": 13227, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://x.com/cas_space/status/1998613252561912098", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-10T04:43:00Z" }, { "id": 13135, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload identities uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2739945#msg2739945", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-04T17:00:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-12-10T04:03:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-12-10T04:15:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-10T03:54:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 1040, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1040/?format=api", "name": "CAS Space", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CAS", "description": "CAS Space is a spin-off company from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) that is operating and plans to operate various launch vehicles of the Zhongke series.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": "2018", "launchers": "Zhongke", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 5, "successful_launches": 10, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://cas-space.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_Space", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cas2520space_logo_20220727081352.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cas2520space_nation_20230604193435.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8835, "configuration": { "id": 483, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/483/?format=api", "name": "Kinetica 1", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Kinetica 1 (also known as Lijian-1, Chinese: 力箭一号) is a Chinese solid-propellant light launch vehicle. It is capable of placing about 2 tons into low earth orbit and 1.5 tons into sun-synchronous orbit. It is developed by CAS Space, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Kinetica 1 is a light launcher whose first stage seems to be derived from the DF-31 long-range intercontinental ballistic missile. It is 30 m high and has a diameter of 2.65 m, with a liftoff mass of 135 t. It's the largest Chinese solid propellant launcher to date, with four stages with a thrust of 200, 100, 50 and 10 tons respectively. The fairing has a diameter of 3.35 meters.", "family": "", "full_name": "Kinetica 1", "manufacturer": { "id": 1040, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1040/?format=api", "name": "CAS Space", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CAS", "description": "CAS Space is a spin-off company from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) that is operating and plans to operate various launch vehicles of the Zhongke series.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": "2018", "launchers": "Zhongke", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 5, "successful_launches": 10, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://cas-space.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_Space", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cas2520space_logo_20220727081352.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cas2520space_nation_20230604193435.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 30.0, "diameter": 2.65, "maiden_flight": "2022-07-27", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 135, "leo_capacity": 2000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 1961, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/zhongke-1a_image_20220912002218.png", "info_url": "https://en.cas-space.com/index/index/technology", "wiki_url": null, "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 5, "successful_launches": 10, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7426, "name": "9 satellites", "description": "Share ride of 9 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit:\r\n\r\n* Satellite 813 (United Arab Emirates)\r\n* Jilin-1 Gaofen 07B-01/07C-01/07D-01\r\n* Dongpo-15 \r\n* Yixing-2 09\r\n* Yixian-A\r\n* SPNEX (Egypt)\r\n* Slipper2Sat (Nepal)", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 151, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/151/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Launch Area 130", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.8182,100.22514", "latitude": "40.8182", "longitude": "100.22514", "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": 275, "total_landing_count": 2 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_151_20200803143425.jpg", "total_launch_count": 11, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 11 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": null, "publisher": "SciNews", "title": "Lijian-1 launches 9 satellites", "description": "A Lijian-1 launch vehicle (力箭一号遥十一, Lijian-1 Y11) launched 9 satellites (Satellite 813, Jilin Gaofen 07B01/07C01/07D01, Dongpo-15, Yixing-2 09, Yixian-A, SPNEX, Slipper2Sat) from the “Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Experimental Zone” (东风商业航天创新试验区), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, on 10 December 2025, at 04:03 UTC (12:03 local time). The Lijian-1 rocket (力箭一号), also known as ZK-1A and Kinetica-1, is a four-stage solid-propellant launch vehicle jointly developed by the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and CAS Space (Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd.). \nCredit: China Central Television (CCTV)/CAS Space", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uddDgQBW7uA/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddDgQBW7uA", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Recap" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": null, "end_time": null } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/zhongke-1a_image_20220912002218.png", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7148, "location_launch_attempt_count": 270, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 11, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 11, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 299, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 31, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 5, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 5, "pad_turnaround": "P31DT31M", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
