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/facf5f12-5110-48b0-bb56-2c4a993aa878/?format=api
{ "id": "facf5f12-5110-48b0-bb56-2c4a993aa878", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/facf5f12-5110-48b0-bb56-2c4a993aa878/?format=api", "slug": "space-shuttle-discovery-ov-103-sts-96", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-96", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T08:49:24Z", "updates": [], "net": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z", "window_start": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z", "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 192, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/192/?format=api", "name": "Lockheed Space Operations Company", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "LSOC", "description": null, "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 65, "consecutive_successful_launches": 49, "successful_launches": 64, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "", "wiki_url": "", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": null }, "rocket": { "id": 444, "configuration": { "id": 493, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/493/?format=api", "name": "Space Shuttle", "active": false, "reusable": true, "description": "The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.", "family": "", "full_name": "Space Shuttle", "manufacturer": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NASA", "description": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "administrator": "Acting Administrator: James Free", "founding_year": "1958", "launchers": "Space Shuttle | SLS", "spacecraft": "Orion", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 141, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 121, "failed_launches": 20, "pending_launches": 6, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "http://www.nasa.gov", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_logo_20190207032448.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_image_20190207032448.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_nation_20230803040809.jpg" }, "program": [ { "id": 6, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/6/?format=api", "name": "Space Shuttle", "description": "The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/space2520shutt_program_20200820202237.png", "start_date": "1981-04-12T12:00:03Z", "end_date": "2011-07-08T15:29:00Z", "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 56.1, "diameter": 8.0, "maiden_flight": "1981-04-12", "launch_cost": "450000000", "launch_mass": 2030, "leo_capacity": 27500, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 28200, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/space_shuttle_image_20230422074810.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle", "total_launch_count": 135, "consecutive_successful_launches": 22, "successful_launches": 133, "failed_launches": 2, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 139, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/139/?format=api", "mission_end": "1999-06-06T06:02:00Z", "destination": "International Space Station", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 2057, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 444, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/444/?format=api", "name": "Kent Rominger", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P67DT2H54M49S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1956-08-07", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Rommel", "instagram": null, "bio": "Kent Vernon \"Rommel\" Rominger is an American former astronaut, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center, and a Captain in the United States Navy. Rominger holds the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight time record with 1610 hours on type. He joined ATK Launch Systems Group in 2006 as Vice President of Advanced Programs.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kent2520rominger_image_20181202144244.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Rominger", "last_flight": "2001-04-19T18:40:42Z", "first_flight": "1995-10-20T13:53:00Z" } }, { "id": 2059, "role": { "id": 2, "role": "Pilot", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 152, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/152/?format=api", "name": "Rick Husband", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P25DT17H32M18S", "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Lost In Flight" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1957-07-12", "date_of_death": "2003-02-01", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) (Colonel, USAF) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as Pilot of STS-96 and Commander of STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rick2520husband_image_20181129211548.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Husband", "last_flight": "2003-01-16T15:39:00Z", "first_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z" } }, { "id": 2061, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 220, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/220/?format=api", "name": "Julie Payette", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P25DT11H57M8S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/16/?format=api", "name": "Canadian Space Agency", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1963-10-20", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Canadian", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Payette", "instagram": null, "bio": "Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD (born October 20, 1963) is the current Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. Before assuming office, she was a businesswoman, former member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps, and engineer. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She served as chief astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and has served as capsule communicator at NASA Mission Control Center in Houston.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/julie_payette_image_20220122091651.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette", "last_flight": "2009-07-15T22:03:10Z", "first_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z" } }, { "id": 2063, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 269, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/269/?format=api", "name": "Valeri Tokarev", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P199DT15H5M25S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1952-10-29", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian: Валерий Иванович Токарев; born October 29, 1952) is a Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Tokarev traveled to space twice, and has performed two career spacewalks, before retiring in June 2008.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/valeri2520tokarev_image_20181201222932.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Tokarev", "last_flight": "2005-10-01T03:54:53Z", "first_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z" } }, { "id": 1917, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 445, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/445/?format=api", "name": "Daniel T. Barry", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P30DT14H25M45S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1953-12-30", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Daniel Thomas Barry is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009–2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow Robots, a telepresence robotics company and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/daniel2520t.2520barry_image_20181202144339.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_T._Barry", "last_flight": "2001-08-10T21:10:14Z", "first_flight": "1996-01-11T09:41:00Z" } }, { "id": 1661, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 435, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/435/?format=api", "name": "Ellen Ochoa", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P40DT19H35M16S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1958-05-10", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Ellen", "instagram": null, "bio": "Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ellen_ochoa_image_20220911033543.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ochoa", "last_flight": "2002-04-08T20:44:19Z", "first_flight": "1993-04-08T05:29:00Z" } }, { "id": 1534, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 405, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/405/?format=api", "name": "Tamara E. Jernigan", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P63DT1H23M47S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1959-05-07", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Tamara Elizabeth \"Tammy\" Jernigan, Ph.D. is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/tamara2520e.2520jernigan_image_20181202140101.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_E._Jernigan", "last_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z", "first_flight": "1991-06-05T13:24:51Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 2058, "role": { "id": 1, "role": "Commander", "priority": 0 }, "astronaut": { "id": 444, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/444/?format=api", "name": "Kent Rominger", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P67DT2H54M49S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1956-08-07", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Rommel", "instagram": null, "bio": "Kent Vernon \"Rommel\" Rominger is an American former astronaut, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center, and a Captain in the United States Navy. Rominger holds the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight time record with 1610 hours on type. He joined ATK Launch Systems Group in 2006 as Vice President of Advanced Programs.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kent2520rominger_image_20181202144244.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Rominger", "last_flight": "2001-04-19T18:40:42Z", "first_flight": "1995-10-20T13:53:00Z" } }, { "id": 399, "role": { "id": 2, "role": "Pilot", "priority": 2 }, "astronaut": { "id": 152, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/152/?format=api", "name": "Rick Husband", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P25DT17H32M18S", "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Lost In Flight" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1957-07-12", "date_of_death": "2003-02-01", "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) (Colonel, USAF) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as Pilot of STS-96 and Commander of STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rick2520husband_image_20181129211548.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Husband", "last_flight": "2003-01-16T15:39:00Z", "first_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z" } }, { "id": 2062, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 220, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/220/?format=api", "name": "Julie Payette", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P25DT11H57M8S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/16/?format=api", "name": "Canadian Space Agency", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1963-10-20", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Canadian", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Payette", "instagram": null, "bio": "Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD (born October 20, 1963) is the current Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. Before assuming office, she was a businesswoman, former member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps, and engineer. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She served as chief astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and has served as capsule communicator at NASA Mission Control Center in Houston.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/julie_payette_image_20220122091651.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette", "last_flight": "2009-07-15T22:03:10Z", "first_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z" } }, { "id": 401, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 269, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/269/?format=api", "name": "Valeri Tokarev", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P199DT15H5M25S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1952-10-29", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian: Валерий Иванович Токарев; born October 29, 1952) is a Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Tokarev traveled to space twice, and has performed two career spacewalks, before retiring in June 2008.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/valeri2520tokarev_image_20181201222932.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Tokarev", "last_flight": "2005-10-01T03:54:53Z", "first_flight": "1999-05-27T10:49:42Z" } }, { "id": 1919, "role": { "id": 7, "role": "Mission Specialist", "priority": 4 }, "astronaut": { "id": 445, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/445/?format=api", "name": "Daniel T. Barry", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P30DT14H25M45S", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1953-12-30", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Daniel Thomas Barry is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009–2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. 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