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/e2651bb4-c42c-4fd8-b11a-bf7df7036c89/?format=api
{ "id": "e2651bb4-c42c-4fd8-b11a-bf7df7036c89", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/e2651bb4-c42c-4fd8-b11a-bf7df7036c89/?format=api", "slug": "electron-baby-come-back-rideshare", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Electron | Baby Come Back (Rideshare)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-08-01T16:28:33Z", "updates": [ { "id": 4607, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scorp_profile_20210217185945.jpg", "comment": "Mission success confirmed", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1681140395311517697", "created_by": "JRascagneres", "created_on": "2023-07-18T03:15:42Z" }, { "id": 4606, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/scorp_profile_20210217185945.jpg", "comment": "Liftoff", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6WI05yKHM", "created_by": "JRascagneres", "created_on": "2023-07-18T01:28:17Z" }, { "id": 4605, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/ll2_profile_20230311134739.png", "comment": "Livestream has started", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6WI05yKHM", "created_by": "LL2", "created_on": "2023-07-18T01:02:37Z" }, { "id": 4604, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/swgustav_profile_20210218062738.jpg", "comment": "Updating T-0", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1681065505459941377", "created_by": "SwGustav", "created_on": "2023-07-17T22:19:03Z" }, { "id": 4593, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/jay2520keegan_profile_20221218022555.jpg", "comment": "Delayed due to weather", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1680403126522884096", "created_by": "Jay", "created_on": "2023-07-16T02:31:49Z" }, { "id": 4577, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET July 16 UTC.", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/rocketlab/status/1679614909452275712", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2023-07-13T23:23:37Z" }, { "id": 4537, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/lucas2520stauder_profile_20230526163835.jpg", "comment": "Tweaked launch window", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/assets/Uploads/Press-Kit-Rocket-Lab-Baby-Come-Back.pdf", "created_by": "hitura-nobad", "created_on": "2023-07-08T09:13:48Z" }, { "id": 4489, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Changed launch pad.", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2023-06-28T16:56:23Z" }, { "id": 4464, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch time.", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2023-06-22T23:45:10Z" }, { "id": 4463, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/jay2520keegan_profile_20221218022555.jpg", "comment": "NET July 14th", "info_url": "https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1671981030654504960", "created_by": "Jay", "created_on": "2023-06-22T21:20:59Z" }, { "id": 4250, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding launch NET Q3 2023", "info_url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230531005951/en/Space-Flight-Laboratory-Selects-Rocket-Lab-to-Launch-Telesat-Broadband-Satellite", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2023-06-01T06:39:11Z" } ], "net": "2023-07-18T01:27:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2023-07-18T01:30:00Z", "window_start": "2023-07-17T23:30:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 7883, "configuration": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.", "family": "", "full_name": "Electron", "manufacturer": { "id": 147, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 1.2, "maiden_flight": "2017-05-25", "launch_cost": "6000000", "launch_mass": 13, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 162, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/electron/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron", "total_launch_count": 64, "consecutive_successful_launches": 23, "successful_launches": 60, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 31, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 361, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 129, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/129/?format=api", "details": "39th Electron launch vehicle to be flown on 'Baby Come Back'.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "39", "status": "retired", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/129_image_20230717200823.jpeg", "successful_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2023-07-18T01:27:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2023-07-18T01:27:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1186, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "Rocket Lab has successfully recovered the Electron booster after a soft parachute splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.", "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)." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6390, "name": "Baby Come Back (Rideshare)", "description": "The \"Baby Come Back\" mission includes NASA's Starling project, which consists of four CubeSats designed to test technologies for future swarm missions. Telesat contributes the LEO 3 demonstration satellite, ensuring continuity for customers and ecosystem vendor testing. Additionally, two 3U satellites carrying GNSS-RO payloads from SpinGlobal will replenish their constellation of over 100 multipurpose satellites.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Dedicated Rideshare", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 185, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/185/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Launch_Complex_1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=-39.262833,177.864469", "latitude": "-39.262833", "longitude": "177.864469", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "description": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. 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