Spacecraft Instance
API endpoint that allows Spacecrafts to be viewed. A Spacecraft is a physically manufactured instance of a Spacecraft Configuration
GET: Return a list of all the existing spacecraft.
FILTERS: Parameters - 'name', 'status', 'spacecraft_config', 'is_placeholder', 'in_space' Example - /2.2.0/spacecraft/?in_space=true
SEARCH EXAMPLE: Example - /2.2.0/spacecraft/?search=Dragon
ORDERING: Fields - 'id', 'time_in_space', 'time_docked', 'flights_count', 'mission_ends_count' Example - /2.2.0/spacecraft/?ordering=id
GET /2.2.0/spacecraft/171/?format=api
{ "id": 171, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/171/?format=api", "name": "HTV Technical Demonstration Vehicle", "serial_number": "HTV-1", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P52DT4H24M14S", "time_docked": "P42DT16H36M", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "HTV-1, also known as the HTV Demonstration Flight or HTV Technical Demonstration Vehicle, was the first Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle, launched in September 2009 to resupply the International Space Station and support the JAXA Kibo laboratory or JEM. It was an unmanned cargo spacecraft carrying a mixture of pressurised and unpressurised cargo to the space station. After a 52-day successful mission, HTV departed the ISS on 31 October 2009 after being released by the station's robotic arm. The spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 2 November and disintegrated on re-entry as planned.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 18, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/18/?format=api", "name": "H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)", "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Cargo Resupply" }, "agency": { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "JPN", "abbrev": "JAXA", "description": "The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.", "administrator": "Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa", "founding_year": "2003", "launchers": "H-II", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_image_20190207032440.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_logo_20190207032440.png" }, "in_use": false, "capability": "Cargo Earth Orbit Logistics", "history": "Like the European Automated Transfer Vehicle the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency had agreed to take part in the resupply operations of the international space station and developed the HTV to perform this task.", "details": "The HTV is about 9.8 metres (32 ft) long (including maneuvering thrusters at one end) and 4.4 metres (14 ft) in diameter. Total mass when empty is 10.5 tonnes (11.6 short tons), with a maximum total payload of 6,000 kilograms (13,000 lb; 6.0 t; 6.6 short tons), for a maximum launch weight of 16.5 tonnes (18.2 short tons). The HTV is comparable in function to the Russian Progress, European ATV, commercial Dragon, and commercial Cygnus spacecraft, all of which bring supplies to the ISS. Like the ATV, the HTV carries more than twice the payload of the Progress, but is launched less than half as often. Unlike Progress capsules and ATVs, which use the docking ports automatically, HTVs and American commercial spacecraft approach the ISS in stages, and once they reach their closest parking orbit to the ISS, crew grapple them using the robotic arm Canadarm2 and berth them to an open berthing port on the Harmony module.", "maiden_flight": "2009-09-10", "height": 9.8, "diameter": 4.4, "human_rated": false, "crew_capacity": null, "payload_capacity": 6000, "payload_return_capacity": 20, "flight_life": "Solo flight about 100 hours, stand-by more than a week, docked with the ISS about 30 days.", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/htv-4_captured__image_20240325122159.jpeg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-II_Transfer_Vehicle", "info_link": "" }, "flights": [ { "id": 265, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/265/?format=api", "destination": "International Space Station", "mission_end": "2009-11-01T21:26:00Z", "spacecraft": { "id": 171, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/171/?format=api", "name": "HTV Technical Demonstration Vehicle", "serial_number": "HTV-1", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P52DT4H24M14S", "time_docked": "P42DT16H36M", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "HTV-1, also known as the HTV Demonstration Flight or HTV Technical Demonstration Vehicle, was the first Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle, launched in September 2009 to resupply the International Space Station and support the JAXA Kibo laboratory or JEM. It was an unmanned cargo spacecraft carrying a mixture of pressurised and unpressurised cargo to the space station. After a 52-day successful mission, HTV departed the ISS on 31 October 2009 after being released by the station's robotic arm. The spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 2 November and disintegrated on re-entry as planned.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 18, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/18/?format=api", "name": "H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)", "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Cargo Resupply" }, "agency": { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "type": "Government" }, "in_use": false, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/htv-4_captured__image_20240325122159.jpeg" } }, "launch": { "id": "1c7a7205-4a1d-4d92-ab95-aee26c23e56c", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/1c7a7205-4a1d-4d92-ab95-aee26c23e56c/?format=api", "slug": "h-iib-304-kounotori-1-htv-1", "name": "H-IIB 304 | Kounotori 1 (HTV-1)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-07-07T12:49:11Z", "net": "2009-09-10T17:01:46Z", "window_end": "2009-09-10T17:01:46Z", "window_start": "2009-09-10T17:01:46Z", "net_precision": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 98, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/98/?format=api", "name": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries", "type": "Commercial" }, "rocket": { "id": 1427, "configuration": { "id": 77, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/77/?format=api", "name": "H-IIB", "family": "H-II", "full_name": "H-IIB 304", "variant": "304" } }, "mission": { "id": 217, "name": "Kounotori 1 (HTV-1)", "description": "Maiden flight of the uncrewed cargo spacecraft to International Space Station.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Resupply", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 209, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/209/?format=api", "agency_id": 37, "name": "Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinobu_Launch_Complex", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=30.400938,130.97564", "latitude": "30.400938", "longitude": "130.97564", "location": { "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/26/?format=api", "name": "Tanegashima Space Center, Japan", "country_code": "JPN", "description": "The Tanegashima Space Center is the largest rocket-launch complex in Japan. It is located on the southeastern tip of Tanegashima, an island located south of Kyushu, an island and region and Japan. It was established in 1969 when the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed, and is now run by JAXA. The activities that take place at TNSC include assembly, testing, launching, and tracking satellites, as well as rocket engine firing tests.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_26_20200803142507.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Tokyo", "total_launch_count": 94, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "JPN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_yoshinobu_launch_complex_lp-2_20230707124715.jpg", "total_launch_count": 14, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 14 }, "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iib_304_lifto_image_20240325125154.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/17/?format=api", "name": "International Space Station", "description": "The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.", "agencies": [ { "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/16/?format=api", "name": "Canadian Space Agency", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 27, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "type": "Multinational" }, { "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/international2_program_20201129184745.png", "start_date": "1998-11-20T06:40:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_programme", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 5005, "location_launch_attempt_count": 47, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 10, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 51, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "type": "normal" }, "landing": { "id": 468, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "The Kounotori spacecraft burned up as planned upon entering Earth's atmosphere.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": null, "type": { "id": 7, "name": "Destructive Reentry", "abbrev": "ATM", "description": "Spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere" } } } ] }
