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/d47b8475-1175-479e-99b4-c86d535558e1/?format=api
{ "id": "d47b8475-1175-479e-99b4-c86d535558e1", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/d47b8475-1175-479e-99b4-c86d535558e1/?format=api", "slug": "falcon-9-full-thrust-spx-crs-8", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Falcon 9 Full Thrust | SpX CRS-8", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T17:41:46Z", "updates": [], "net": "2016-04-08T20:43:32Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2016-04-08T20:43:32Z", "window_start": "2016-04-08T20:43:32Z", "probability": 90, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "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": 494, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 480, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 121, "consecutive_successful_landings": 63, "successful_landings": 441, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 466, "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": 1921, "configuration": { "id": 55, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/55/?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 Full Thrust", "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": 494, "consecutive_successful_launches": 17, "successful_launches": 480, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 121, "consecutive_successful_landings": 63, "successful_landings": 441, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 466, "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": "Full Thrust", "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": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520full2520thrust_image_20190222031117.jpeg", "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/falcon9", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "total_launch_count": 25, "consecutive_successful_launches": 16, "successful_launches": 24, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 18, "successful_landings": 16, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 12 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 22, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 30, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/30/?format=api", "details": "Retired; on permanent display outside DISH Network Corporation headquarters in Littleton, Colorado.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1021", "status": "retired", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/30_image_20190226080922.jpeg", "successful_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 2, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2017-03-30T22:27:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2016-04-08T20:43:32Z" }, "landing": { "id": 61, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The first stage of the Falcon 9 landed on the ASDS, OCISLY stationed off of the East Coast. Marking the first successful barge landing!", "downrange_distance": null, "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": 126 }, "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": { "id": 303, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/303/?format=api", "mission_end": "2016-05-11T18:31:00Z", "destination": "International Space Station", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 219, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/219/?format=api", "name": "Dragon C110", "serial_number": "C110", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P65DT20H19M50S", "time_docked": "P61DT23H45M", "flights_count": 2, "mission_ends_count": 2, "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "description": "This capsule was used on both CRS-8 and CRS-14. \r\nOn CRS-8 this vehicle delivered the Bigelow BEAM module in its unpressurized cargo trunk. It was also used to carry Scott Kellys biological samples back to Earth.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 3, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/3/?format=api", "name": "Dragon 1", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "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", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png" }, "in_use": false, "capability": "ISS Logistics", "history": "Dragon, also known as Dragon 1 or Cargo Dragon, was a class of fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company.\r\n\r\nIt flew 23 missions between 2010 and 2020.\r\n\r\nDuring its maiden flight in December 2010, Dragon became the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit.", "details": "The Dragon spacecraft consists of a nose-cone cap, a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule, and an unpressurized cargo-carrier trunk equipped with two solar arrays. Dragon was launched into orbit by the company's Falcon 9 launch vehicle to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).", "maiden_flight": "2010-12-08", "height": 6.1, "diameter": 3.7, "human_rated": false, "crew_capacity": null, "payload_capacity": 6000, "payload_return_capacity": 3000, "flight_life": "One week free flight, up to two years while berthed to the International Space Station.", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/crs-172520dragon2520berthing_image_20190318203226.jpeg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_(spacecraft)", "info_link": "https://www.spacex.com/dragon" } }, "landing": { "id": 442, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Dragon spacecraft successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean carrying scientific research and station hardware.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 18, "name": "Pacific Ocean", "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 46 }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." } }, "docking_events": [ { "id": 162, "spacestation": { "id": 4, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacestation/4/?format=api", "name": "International Space Station", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "founded": "1998-11-20", "description": "The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added in 2016. The station is expected to operate until 2030. Development and assembly of the station continues, with several new elements scheduled for launch in 2019. The ISS is the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from Earth. The ISS consists of pressurised habitation modules, structural trusses, solar arrays, radiators, docking ports, experiment bays and robotic arms. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttles.", "orbit": "Low Earth Orbit", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/international2520space2520station_image_20190220215716.jpeg" }, "docking": "2016-04-10T13:57:00Z", "departure": "2016-05-11T13:19:00Z", "docking_location": { "id": 21, "name": "Harmony nadir", "spacestation": { "id": 4, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacestation/4/?format=api", "name": "International Space Station" } } } ] } }, "mission": { "id": 118, "name": "SpX CRS-8", "description": "SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft on their eighth operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. Among the cargo was the Bigelow Aerospace’s BEAM module, which was attached to the station and will stay so for 2 years. BEAM is an expandable habitat module that will undergo tests to determine its worthiness during the stay. 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