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/632/?format=api
{ "id": 632, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/632/?format=api", "name": "Ship 41", "serial_number": "S41", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 0, "mission_ends_count": 0, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "Third V3 Starship to fly with various enhancements, to be used on the 14th Starship test flight, the first Starship flight to deploy satellites into stable Low Earth Orbit.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 46, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/46/?format=api", "name": "Starship V3", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Reuseable Upper Stage" }, "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/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png" }, "in_use": true, "capability": "More than 100 tons to Earth orbit", "history": "The third-generation Starship upper stage will be introduced on flight 12.", "details": "Third-generation second stage of the two-stage Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "maiden_flight": "2026-05-22", "height": 52.1, "diameter": 9.0, "human_rated": false, "crew_capacity": null, "payload_capacity": null, "payload_return_capacity": null, "flight_life": "Unknown at this stage", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_during_image_20250824175325.jpg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "", "info_link": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship" }, "flights": [ { "id": 914, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/914/?format=api", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "mission_end": null, "spacecraft": { "id": 632, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/632/?format=api", "name": "Ship 41", "serial_number": "S41", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 0, "mission_ends_count": 0, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "Third V3 Starship to fly with various enhancements, to be used on the 14th Starship test flight, the first Starship flight to deploy satellites into stable Low Earth Orbit.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 46, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/46/?format=api", "name": "Starship V3", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Reuseable Upper Stage" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "in_use": true, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_during_image_20250824175325.jpg" } }, "launch": { "id": "7d1afb26-6f9c-429b-9ccf-29012fd1e519", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/7d1afb26-6f9c-429b-9ccf-29012fd1e519/?format=api", "slug": "starship-starlink-group-31-1-starship-flight-14", "name": "Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)", "status": { "id": 8, "name": "To Be Confirmed", "abbrev": "TBC", "description": "Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty." }, "last_updated": "2026-09-17T18:33:08Z", "net": "2026-09-28T12:15:00Z", "window_end": "2026-09-28T13:30:00Z", "window_start": "2026-09-28T12:15:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "rocket": { "id": 9105, "configuration": { "id": 522, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/522/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "family": "Starship", "full_name": "Starship V3", "variant": "V3" } }, "mission": { "id": 7700, "name": "Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)", "description": "14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites known as Starlink Group 31-1) into stable Low Earth Orbit.\r\n\r\nThe ship is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately 6 orbits around the planet for nearly 10 hours, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile.\r\n\r\nThe booster’s primary test objective on Flight 14 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf.\r\n\r\nStarship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Tbps of capacity to the constellation.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Communications", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [ { "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": 729, "consecutive_successful_launches": 214, "successful_launches": 714, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 128, "consecutive_successful_landings": 22, "successful_landings": 673, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 701, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://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/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_social_l_image_20260407054626.jpg" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 235, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/235/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Orbital Launch Pad 2", "description": "The second launch and landing pad of the full version of the combined SpaceX Starship and Superheavy booster. To be first used for launch in 2025 with version 3 of Starship and the Superheavy booster.\r\n\r\nThe launch mount itself is named Orbital Launch Mount B.", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starbase#Launch_site_(Orbital_Launch_Mount_(Pad_1_and_2))", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=25.996770,-97.157990", "latitude": "25.99677", "longitude": "-97.15799", "location": { "id": 143, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village, and a small structure test site along the Texas State Highway 4.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/Chicago", "total_launch_count": 22, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_orbital_launch_mount_b_20241126031254.jpg", "total_launch_count": 2, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 0 }, "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_on_the_image_20260724044615.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/1/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starship", "description": "The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.", "agencies": [ { "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/starship_on_the_image_20250111100520.jpg", "start_date": "2019-03-01T05:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 7, "name": "Technology" } }, { "id": 25, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/25/?format=api", "name": "Starlink", "description": "Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by American aerospace company SpaceX", "agencies": [ { "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/starlink_program_20231228154508.jpeg", "start_date": "2018-02-22T14:17:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://starlink.com", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 7, "name": "Space X Starlink Mission Patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/space2520x252_mission_patch_20221011205756.png", "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } } ], "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Communication Constellation" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7405, "location_launch_attempt_count": 23, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 732, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 232, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 113, "type": "normal" }, "landing": { "id": 1955, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "Ship 41 will attempt to perform a soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after deploying its payload.", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 18, "name": "Pacific Ocean", "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 53 }, "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Ocean", "abbrev": "Ocean", "description": "No recovery attempt" } } } ] }
