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/ef3b84de-7f1e-4b44-8263-4145f771bfb2/?format=api
{ "id": "ef3b84de-7f1e-4b44-8263-4145f771bfb2", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/ef3b84de-7f1e-4b44-8263-4145f771bfb2/?format=api", "slug": "falcon-9-v10-spacex-cots-demo-flight-2", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T17:41:47Z", "updates": [], "net": "2012-05-22T07:44:38Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2012-05-22T07:44:38Z", "window_start": "2012-05-22T07:44:38Z", "probability": -1, "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": 496, "consecutive_successful_launches": 19, "successful_launches": 482, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 119, "consecutive_successful_landings": 65, "successful_landings": 443, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 468, "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": 1610, "configuration": { "id": 169, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/169/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "active": false, "reusable": false, "description": "The Falcon 9 v1.0 first stage was used on the first five Falcon 9 launches, and powered by nine SpaceX Merlin 1C rocket engines arranged in a 3x3 pattern.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 v1.0", "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": 496, "consecutive_successful_launches": 19, "successful_launches": 482, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 119, "consecutive_successful_landings": 65, "successful_landings": 443, "failed_landings": 26, "attempted_landings": 468, "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": "v1.0", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 47.8, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2010-06-04", "launch_cost": "59000000", "launch_mass": 318, "leo_capacity": 9300, "gto_capacity": 3400, "to_thrust": 3807, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520v1.0_image_20190222030703.jpeg", "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/falcon9", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_v1.0", "total_launch_count": 5, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 4, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 2, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 3, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 10, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/10/?format=api", "details": "", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B0005", "status": "lost", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/10_image_20191115082622.jpeg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2012-05-22T07:44:38Z", "first_launch_date": "2012-05-22T07:44:38Z" }, "landing": { "id": 40, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "B0005 was expended after its first flight.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 37 }, "type": { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 295, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/295/?format=api", "mission_end": "2012-05-31T15:42:00Z", "destination": "International Space Station", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 211, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/211/?format=api", "name": "Dragon C102", "serial_number": "C102", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P9DT7H57M22S", "time_docked": "P5DT17H47M", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "description": "First Dragon mission with complete spacecraft, first rendezvous mission, first berthing with ISS. After recovery, the capsule was put on display at Kennedy Space Center.", "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": 429, "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": 155, "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": "2012-05-25T16:02:00Z", "departure": "2012-05-31T09:49:00Z", "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": 412, "name": "SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2", "description": "SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 (COTS 2), was the second test-flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched on the third flight of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight was performed under a funded agreement from NASA as the second Dragon demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The purpose of the COTS program is to develop and demonstrate commercial sources for cargo re-supply of the International Space Station (ISS). The Dragon C2+ spacecraft was the first American vehicle to visit the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program. 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