Launch Instance
API endpoint that returns all Launch objects or a single launch.
EXAMPLE - /launch/
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'
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 /2.0.0/launch/0f6780cf-edae-4d7c-99d6-ce7de784d140/?format=api
{ "id": "0f6780cf-edae-4d7c-99d6-ce7de784d140", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/0f6780cf-edae-4d7c-99d6-ce7de784d140/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-mrv-1", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | MRV-1", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2026-07-21T21:15:00Z", "window_end": "2026-07-22T01:04:00Z", "window_start": "2026-07-21T21:15:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 90, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/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": 714, "consecutive_successful_launches": 199, "successful_launches": 699, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 126, "consecutive_successful_landings": 6, "successful_landings": 657, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 685, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_social_l_image_20260407054626.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 7551, "configuration": { "id": 164, "launch_library_id": 188, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/164/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "description": "Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 Block 5", "manufacturer": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/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": 714, "consecutive_successful_launches": 199, "successful_launches": 699, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 126, "consecutive_successful_landings": 6, "successful_landings": 657, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 685, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_social_l_image_20260407054626.jpg" }, "program": [ { "id": 11, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/11/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Resupply Services", "description": "Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.", "agencies": [ { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 257, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/257/?format=api", "name": "Northrop Grumman Space Systems", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 1020, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/1020/?format=api", "name": "Sierra Nevada Corporation", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20201129212219.png", "start_date": "2008-12-23T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_Services#Commercial_Resupply_Services" }, { "id": 5, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/5/?format=api", "name": "Commercial Crew Program", "description": "The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is a human spaceflight program operated by NASA, in association with American aerospace manufacturers Boeing and SpaceX. The program conducts rotations between the expeditions of the International Space Station program, transporting crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules, in the first crewed orbital spaceflights operated by private companies.", "agencies": [ { "id": 80, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/80/?format=api", "name": "Boeing", "type": "Commercial" }, { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/commercial2520_program_20200820201209.png", "start_date": "2011-04-18T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Program" } ], "variant": "Block 5", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 70.0, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2018-05-11", "launch_mass": 549, "leo_capacity": 22800, "gto_capacity": 8300, "to_thrust": 7607, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-9/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "total_launch_count": 618, "consecutive_successful_launches": 320, "successful_launches": 617, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 109 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 960, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 32, "launcher": { "id": 105, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/105/?format=api", "details": "Falcon 9 Block 5 booster first used for the CRS-24 mission. Expended during the launch of the MRV-MEP mission.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1069", "status": "expended", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/b1069_at_lz-1_a_image_20250912153047.jpeg", "successful_landings": 31, "attempted_landings": 31, "flights": 32, "last_launch_date": "2026-07-21T21:15:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2021-12-21T10:07:08Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1896, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "The Falcon 9 booster B1069 was expended during its 32nd mission.", "location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 38 }, "type": { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" } }, "previous_flight_date": "2026-05-01T18:06:10Z", "turn_around_time_days": 81, "previous_flight": { "id": "b3877a27-7332-47cb-ac46-12a32143081b", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-38" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 5978, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "MRV-1", "description": "The Northrop Grumman/SpaceLogistics MRV-1 is a mission extension payload including a mission robotic vehicle (MRV) and multiple mission extension pods (MEPs). The MRV is designed to attach up to 30 MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) to various satellites in GEO over the course of its life, and the MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) are 400 kg spacecraft designed to be captured by the MRV and then attached to a customer's satellite. A single MEP can extend a 2000 kg satellite's service life by up to 6 years. \r\n\r\nFor this mission, 2 of the MEP's will service satellites for Intelsat, while the third will service a satellite for Optus.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Mission Extension", "orbit": { "id": 2, "name": "Geostationary Transfer Orbit", "abbrev": "GTO" } }, "pad": { "id": 80, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/80/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Space Launch Complex 40", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Space_Launch_Complex_40", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.56194122,-80.57735736", "latitude": "28.56194122", "longitude": "-80.57735736", "location": { "id": 12, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1124, "total_landing_count": 76 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_80_20200803143323.jpg", "total_launch_count": 396 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "SpaceX", "description": "SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/mrv-mep" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 7, "title": "SpaceX MRV-1", "description": "On Tuesday July 21, 2026 at 21:15 UTC, SpaceX launched the MRV-1 mission with a Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.\n\nDescription generated from the Launch Library 2 API.\n——————————————————————\nObject in the Launch Library 2 API: https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/0f6780cf-edae-4d7c-99d6-ce7de784d140/?format=json\nRelated news in the Spaceflight News API: https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/articles/?launch=0f6780cf-edae-4d7c-99d6-ce7de784d140\n——————————————————————\n\nRehosted on YouTube by The Space Devs.\nSupport our work on https://www.patreon.com/TheSpaceDevs\n——————————————————————\nWebsite: https://thespacedevs.com\nX: https://x.com/thespacedevs\nDiscord: https://discord.com/invite/p7ntkNA\n——————————————————————\n\nOriginal video: https:...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qKgy0UbBZrk/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKgy0UbBZrk" }, { "priority": 8, "title": "Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches robotic space servicing mission from Cape Canaveral", "description": "Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Northrup Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) and Mission Extension Pods (MEP), a robotic space servicing mission. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC).\n\nThe first-stage Falcon 9 booster, serial number B1069, launching for a 32nd and final time, will take an easterly trajectory on departure from Florida's Space Coast. The mission requires all the Falcon 9 performance and the first stage booster will not be recovered.\n\nOur live coverage with commentary from Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith will start about 90 minutes prior to launch.\n\nVideos like this are made possible by the support of our members. Join this...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2h4gxuQ9lPA/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h4gxuQ9lPA" }, { "priority": 9, "title": "SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with MRV-1", "description": "Launch Window: July 21st from 5:15PM to 9:15PM EDT (21:15-01:15 UTC)\nCurrent T0: July 21st at 5:15PM EDT (21:15 UTC)\n\nMission: Falcon 9 of MRV-1 and MEP 1, 2, 3, and 4 for Northrop Grumman\nLaunch location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth.\nTarget orbit: Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)\nBooster: B1069-32; 81d 3h 8min 50s\nPast customer missions: CRS-24, Hotbird 13F, OneWeb-15, SES-18 & SES-19, \nPast Starlink missions: 4-23, 5-3, 5-6, 5-12, 6-9, 6-19, 6-28, 6-36, 6-39, 6-47, 6-57, 10-1, 10-9, 8-10, 10-8, 6-66, 12-3, 12-21, 6-74, 12-22, 10-23, 10-29, 10-57, 10-51, 6-96, 6-108, 10-38.\nSatellites launched: 834, will be 838 after this mission.\nBooster recovery: None - booster will be expended.\nFairing recovery: Bob\nRocket trajectory: Straight Eas...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dO71XO4lceM/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO71XO4lceM" }, { "priority": 10, "title": "MRV-MEP Mission", "description": "Livestream on X", "feature_image": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNNeMJ3W8AAgTdK.jpg", "url": "https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nxnRRdXWEkxO" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_at_slc_image_20260721192735.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7346, "location_launch_attempt_count": 1122, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 394, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 707, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 173, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 46, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 40, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 88 }
