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/39e6e2a1-945b-4271-a2e3-67d6b0e07e8a/?format=api
{ "id": "39e6e2a1-945b-4271-a2e3-67d6b0e07e8a", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/39e6e2a1-945b-4271-a2e3-67d6b0e07e8a/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "kuaizhou-1a-traffic-vdes-a-b", "name": "Kuaizhou 1A | Traffic VDES A & B", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2025-12-05T09:00:00Z", "window_end": "2025-12-05T09:54:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-05T08:54:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 194, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/194/?format=api", "name": "ExPace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "EP", "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di", "founding_year": "2016", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 32, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPace", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8830, "configuration": { "id": 135, "launch_library_id": 155, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/135/?format=api", "name": "Kuaizhou 1A", "description": "Kuaizhou is a family of Chinese \"quick-reaction\" orbital launch vehicles. Flying since 2013, Kuaizhou 1 and 1A consist of three solid-fueled rocket stages, with a liquid-fueled fourth stage as part of the satellite system.", "family": "Kuaizhou", "full_name": "Kuaizhou 1A", "manufacturer": { "id": 194, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/194/?format=api", "name": "ExPace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "EP", "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di", "founding_year": "2016", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 32, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPace", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "1A", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 19.4, "diameter": 1.4, "maiden_flight": "2017-01-09", "launch_mass": 30, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuaizhou", "total_launch_count": 31, "consecutive_successful_launches": 2, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7421, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Traffic VDES A & B", "description": "Two technology demonstration satellites for satellite transmissions of signals for the VHF Data Exchange System (VDES), a successor to the current Automatic Identification System (AIS) on ships and maritime vessels for traffic management at sea with higher bandwidth on new frequencies for secure communications and e-navigation.\r\n\r\nThis project is a joint effort by the China Ministry of Transport's China Transport Telecommunications Information Center and SpaceSail, operator of the Qianfan/G60 constellation.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Technology", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 21, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/21/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Launch Area 95A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.969117,100.343333", "latitude": "40.969117", "longitude": "100.343333", "location": { "id": 17, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/17/?format=api", "name": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_17_20200803142429.jpg", "total_launch_count": 271, "total_landing_count": 1 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_21_20200803143253.jpg", "total_launch_count": 64 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7140, "location_launch_attempt_count": 268, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 63, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 31, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 291, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 29, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3 }
