Landing Type List
Number of results
Use limit
to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)
Example - /config/landing_types/?limit=2
Format
Switch to JSON output - /config/landing_types/?format=json
Help
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GET /2.3.0/config/landing_types/?format=api&ordering=description
{ "count": 10, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 1, "name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship", "abbrev": "ASDS", "description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory." }, { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", "description": "A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from." }, { "id": 6, "name": "Horizontal Landing", "abbrev": "HL", "description": "Horizontal landing on a runway or flat surface." }, { "id": 3, "name": "Ocean", "abbrev": "Ocean", "description": "No recovery attempt" }, { "id": 7, "name": "Destructive Reentry", "abbrev": "ATM", "description": "Spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere" }, { "id": 5, "name": "Helicopter Catch", "abbrev": "HC", "description": "The first stage is caught by a helicopter while slowly descending towards the sea under a parachute." }, { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, { "id": 10, "name": "Parafoil Landing", "abbrev": "PFL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parafoil(s)." }, { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" }, { "id": 9, "name": "Vertical Landing", "abbrev": "VL", "description": "Vertical landing using engines" } ] }