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/fa36ad1a-e596-4d8a-9325-ec30c1853953/?format=api
{ "id": "fa36ad1a-e596-4d8a-9325-ec30c1853953", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/fa36ad1a-e596-4d8a-9325-ec30c1853953/?format=api", "slug": "long-march-6a-g60-polar-group-06", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Long March 6A | G60 Polar Group 06", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-01-30T01:30:59Z", "updates": [ { "id": 9868, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5125995662676789", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-01-23T07:14:00Z" }, { "id": 9852, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload and launch vehicles identities uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2658014#msg2658014", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-01-21T07:52:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-01-23T05:15:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-01-23T05:24:00Z", "window_start": "2025-01-23T05:04:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 520, "consecutive_successful_launches": 62, "successful_launches": 506, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 11, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8462, "configuration": { "id": 478, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/478/?format=api", "name": "Long March 6A", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "The Long March 6A is a Chinese launch vehicle of the Long March family, which was developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST). The vehicle is a further development of the Long March 6, with 2 YF-100 engines on the first stage as opposed to 1 on the Long March 6, augmented by 4 solid rocket boosters. The Long March 6A is China's first rocket with solid rocket boosters. The maiden launch of the Long March 6A took place 29 March 2022, successfully reaching orbit. It was also the first launch from the newly built launch complex 9A in Taiyuan.", "family": "Long March", "full_name": "Long March 6A", "manufacturer": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 520, "consecutive_successful_launches": 62, "successful_launches": 506, "failed_launches": 14, "pending_launches": 11, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 1, "max_stage": 2, "length": 50.0, "diameter": 3.35, "maiden_flight": "2022-03-29", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 530, "leo_capacity": null, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 7230, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long_march_6a_image_20221109174525.png", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_6", "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 11, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 1, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7051, "name": "G60 Polar Group 06", "description": "18 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government.\r\n\r\nInitial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Communications", "orbit": { "id": 13, "name": "Polar Orbit", "abbrev": "PO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 200, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/200/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Launch Complex 9A", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=38.8583,111.5802", "latitude": "38.8583", "longitude": "111.5802", "location": { "id": 19, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/19/?format=api", "name": "Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is a People's Republic of China space and defense launch facility. It is situated in Kelan County, Xinzhou, Shanxi Province and is the second of four launch sites having been founded in March 1966 and coming into full operation in 1968.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_19_20200803142421.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 140, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_launch_complex_9a_20220330003717.jpg", "total_launch_count": 12, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 12 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "SciNews", "title": "Long March-6A launches SpaceSail Polar Orbit 06", "description": "A Long March-6A launch vehicle (LM-6A, 长征六号甲) launched 18 SpaceSail Polar Orbit satellites (千帆极轨06组卫星) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC), Shanxi Province, China, on 23 January 2025, at 0...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FfjePnS2KAA/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfjePnS2KAA", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Recap" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2025-01-23T08:25:53Z", "end_time": "2025-01-23T08:28:11Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cz-6a_liftoff__image_20250123085337.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6865, "location_launch_attempt_count": 138, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 11, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 504, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 16, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_turnaround": "P49DT34M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 1090, "name": "CZ-6A Y6", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/cz-6a2520y6_mission_patch_20250123085708.png", "agency": { "id": 88, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "type": "Government" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
