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/ca4e796d-f3e4-4b80-b2f7-f7fd6a7b325f/?format=api
{ "id": "ca4e796d-f3e4-4b80-b2f7-f7fd6a7b325f", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/ca4e796d-f3e4-4b80-b2f7-f7fd6a7b325f/?format=api", "slug": "falcon-9-block-4-tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Falcon 9 Block 4 | TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-08-02T15:55:11Z", "updates": [], "net": "2018-04-18T22:51:31Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2018-04-18T22:52:01Z", "window_start": "2018-04-18T22:51:31Z", "probability": 90, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": "#TESS", "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 510, "consecutive_successful_launches": 33, "successful_launches": 496, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 117, "consecutive_successful_landings": 79, "successful_landings": 457, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 482, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 2096, "configuration": { "id": 145, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/145/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "active": false, "reusable": true, "description": "The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 Block 4", "manufacturer": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 510, "consecutive_successful_launches": 33, "successful_launches": 496, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 117, "consecutive_successful_landings": 79, "successful_landings": 457, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 482, "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "program": [ { "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/11/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Resupply Services", "description": "Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 257, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/257/?format=api", "name": "Northrop Grumman Space Systems", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 1020, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1020/?format=api", "name": "Sierra Nevada Corporation", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20201129212219.png", "start_date": "2008-12-23T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_Services#Commercial_Resupply_Services", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "variant": "Block 4", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 71.0, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2015-12-22", "launch_cost": "50000000", "launch_mass": 546, "leo_capacity": 22800, "gto_capacity": 8305, "to_thrust": 6804, "apogee": 197, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520block25204_image_20190222031140.jpeg", "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/falcon9", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_full_thrust", "total_launch_count": 12, "consecutive_successful_launches": 12, "successful_launches": 12, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 6, "successful_landings": 6, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 6 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 65, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 53, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/53/?format=api", "details": "Stage Expended", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1045", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/53_image_20190226084547.jpeg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2018-06-29T09:42:41Z", "first_launch_date": "2018-04-18T22:51:31Z" }, "landing": { "id": 103, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The first stage of the Falcon 9 landed on the ASDS, OCISLY, stationed of the east coast.", "downrange_distance": 302.0, "location": { "id": 1, "name": "Of Course I Still Love You", "abbrev": "OCISLY", "description": "The second ASDS barge, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) services launches in the Pacific Ocean and was the site of the first landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage during CRS-8, the launch of a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.", "location": null, "successful_landings": 131 }, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship", "abbrev": "ASDS", "description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 510, "name": "TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)", "description": "The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA space telescope, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method. TESS will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, orbiting a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. The principal goal of the TESS mission is to detect small planets with bright host stars in the solar neighborhood, so that detailed characterizations of the planets and their atmospheres can be performed.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Astrophysics", "orbit": { "id": 7, "name": "High Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "HEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 80, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/80/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Space Launch Complex 40", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Space_Launch_Complex_40", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.56194122,-80.57735736", "latitude": "28.56194122", "longitude": "-80.57735736", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1023, "total_landing_count": 64 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_80_20200803143323.jpg", "total_launch_count": 307, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 307 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "Liftoff of TESS", "description": "A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 6:51 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sat...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wBCBThgIBmA/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCBThgIBmA", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null }, { "priority": 0, "source": null, "publisher": null, "title": "TESS Mission", "description": "SpaceX is targeting launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canave...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aY-0uBIYYKk/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-0uBIYYKk", "type": null, "language": null, "start_time": null, "end_time": null } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520block25204_image_20190222031140.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 5744, "location_launch_attempt_count": 769, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 88, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 60, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 38, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 5, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "pad_turnaround": "P16DT2H20M53S", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 519, "name": "TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) Patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/tess25202528t_mission_patch_20211031044135.png", "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
