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/7d1afb26-6f9c-429b-9ccf-29012fd1e519/?format=api
{ "id": "7d1afb26-6f9c-429b-9ccf-29012fd1e519", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/7d1afb26-6f9c-429b-9ccf-29012fd1e519/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "starship-starlink-group-31-1-starship-flight-14", "name": "Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Go" }, "net": "2026-09-28T12:15:00Z", "window_end": "2026-09-28T13:30:00Z", "window_start": "2026-09-28T12:15:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "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": 731, "consecutive_successful_launches": 216, "successful_launches": 716, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 128, "consecutive_successful_landings": 24, "successful_landings": 675, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 703, "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": 9105, "configuration": { "id": 522, "launch_library_id": null, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/522/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "description": "Third development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "family": "Starship", "full_name": "Starship V3", "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": 731, "consecutive_successful_launches": 216, "successful_launches": 716, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 128, "consecutive_successful_landings": 24, "successful_landings": 675, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 703, "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": 1, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/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://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.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" } ], "variant": "V3", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 124.4, "diameter": 9.0, "maiden_flight": "2026-05-22", "launch_mass": 5250, "leo_capacity": 100000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 80807, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Block_3", "total_launch_count": 2, "consecutive_successful_launches": 2, "successful_launches": 2, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 2 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 990, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 260, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/260/?format=api", "details": "Third Block 3 Super Heavy booster to fly with various enhancements including Raptor 3 engines, integrated interstage and 3 grid fins instead of 4 used. To be used on the 14th Starship flight test, the first Starship flight to deploy satellites into stable Low Earth Orbit.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "Booster 21", "status": "active", "image_url": null, "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 0, "last_launch_date": null, "first_launch_date": null }, "landing": { "id": 1954, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "The Super Heavy Booster 21 will attempt to perform a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.", "location": { "id": 16, "name": "Gulf of Mexico", "abbrev": "GOM", "description": "Gulf of Mexico", "location": null, "successful_landings": 18 }, "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Ocean", "abbrev": "Ocean", "description": "No recovery attempt" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 914, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/914/?format=api", "mission_end": null, "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 632, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/632/?format=api", "name": "Ship 41", "serial_number": "S41", "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://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/spacecraft/46/?format=api", "name": "Starship V3", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Reuseable Upper Stage" }, "agency": { "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", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_9_image_20230807133459.jpeg" }, "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, "flight_life": "Unknown at this stage", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_during_image_20250824175325.jpg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "", "info_link": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship" } }, "docking_events": [] } }, "mission": { "id": 7700, "launch_library_id": null, "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" } }, "pad": { "id": 235, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/235/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Orbital Launch Pad 2", "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://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "total_launch_count": 22, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_orbital_launch_mount_b_20241126031254.jpg", "total_launch_count": 2 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "SpaceX", "description": "SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. 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