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/862b54e3-7bf8-48e5-8cd1-d77257d5fde9/?format=api
{ "id": "862b54e3-7bf8-48e5-8cd1-d77257d5fde9", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/862b54e3-7bf8-48e5-8cd1-d77257d5fde9/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-crew-12", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-12", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "window_end": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "window_start": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "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": 656, "consecutive_successful_launches": 141, "successful_launches": 641, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 140, "successful_landings": 601, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 627, "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/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 7599, "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": 656, "consecutive_successful_launches": 141, "successful_launches": 641, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 140, "successful_landings": 601, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 627, "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/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.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": 563, "consecutive_successful_launches": 265, "successful_launches": 562, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 104 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 258, "type": "Core", "reused": true, "launcher_flight_number": 2, "launcher": { "id": 240, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/240/?format=api", "details": "Falcon 9 booster.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1101", "status": "active", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/b1101_at_slc-40_image_20260208171031.jpg", "successful_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 2, "flights": 2, "last_launch_date": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_launch_date": "2026-01-04T06:48:10Z" }, "landing": { "id": 286, "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Falcon 9 first stage B1101 has landed back at the launch site after its 2nd flight.", "location": { "id": 62, "name": "Landing Zone 40", "abbrev": "LZ-40", "description": "Landing Pad at SLC-40 for Falcon 9 boosters. Built as an replacement for LZ-1 & LZ-2.", "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": 1097, "total_landing_count": 71 }, "successful_landings": 1 }, "type": { "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." } }, "previous_flight_date": "2026-01-04T06:48:10Z", "turn_around_time_days": 40, "previous_flight": { "id": "ae315ab0-ecda-4c54-99c6-0a8818f55b0d", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-88" } } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 901, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/901/?format=api", "mission_end": null, "destination": "International Space Station", "launch_crew": [ { "id": 5201, "role": "Spacecraft Commander", "astronaut": { "id": 573, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/573/?format=api", "name": "Jessica Meir", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1977-07-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/astro_jessica/", "bio": "Jessica Ulrika Meir is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas. In 2000, Meir graduated with a Master of Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. In September 2002, Meir served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 4 (NEEMO 4) crew. In June 2013 she was named an astronaut candidate by NASA, becoming one of the eight members of NASA Astronaut Group 21. She is from Caribou, Maine.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jessica_meir_image_20200417064900.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Meir", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2019-09-25T13:57:42Z" } }, { "id": 5203, "role": "Pilot", "astronaut": { "id": 712, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/712/?format=api", "name": "Jack Hathaway", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "In-Training" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1982-01-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Jack Hathaway is a US Navy commander from Connecticut. He earned bachelors’ degrees in physics and history from the U.S. Naval Academy and completed graduate studies at Cranfield University in England and the U.S. Naval War College. A distinguished naval aviator, Hathaway flew and deployed with Navy’s Strike Fighter Squadron 14 aboard the USS Nimitz and Strike Fighter Squadron 136 aboard the USS Truman. He graduated from Empire Test Pilots’ School, supported the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and was most recently assigned as the prospective executive officer for Strike Fighter Squadron 81. He has more than 2,500 flight hours in 30 types of aircraft, more than 500 carrier arrested landings, and flew 39 combat missions.\r\n\r\nExact date of birth unknown.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jack_hathaway_image_20211206185407.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hathaway", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z" } }, { "id": 5194, "role": "Flight Engineer", "astronaut": { "id": 747, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/747/?format=api", "name": "Sophie Adenot", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "In-Training" }, "agency": { "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "type": "Multinational" }, "date_of_birth": "1982-07-05", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "French", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Soph_astro", "instagram": null, "bio": "Between 2001 and 2003, Sophie studied engineering and graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, where she specialised in spacecraft and aircraft flight dynamics. She then completed a Master of Science in human factors engineering at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA, in 2004.\r\nIn 2005, Sophie joined the French Air Force for her basic military training and initial flying training to become a helicopter pilot. \r\n\r\nIn 2018, she graduated with honours as a helicopter test pilot from the Empire Test Pilots’ School in Boscombe Down, UK. She was awarded the Mac Kenna trophy and the Patuxtent Shield.\r\nBetween 2019 and 2022, Sophie worked as a helicopter experimental test pilot in Cazaux Flight Test Center with DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement – the French Defence Procurement Agency). She has logged 3000 hours and flew on 22 different helicopter types. She also holds a military parachute license, a light aircraft pilot license and a glider pilot license.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sophie_adenot_image_20221123150954.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Adenot", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z" } }, { "id": 5196, "role": "Flight Engineer", "astronaut": { "id": 732, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/732/?format=api", "name": "Andrei Fedyaev", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1981-02-26", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Andrei Valerievich Fedyaev (Андрей Валерьевич Федяев) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a military pilot prior to retiring from Air Force in 2013, and was selected as a cosmonaut in 2012. \r\n\r\nISS-69 expedition will be Fedyaev's first spaceflight.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/andrei_fedyaev_image_20230207203113.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Fedyaev", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2023-03-02T05:34:14Z" } } ], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [ { "id": 5202, "role": "Spacecraft Commander", "astronaut": { "id": 573, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/573/?format=api", "name": "Jessica Meir", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1977-07-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/astro_jessica/", "bio": "Jessica Ulrika Meir is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas. In 2000, Meir graduated with a Master of Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. In September 2002, Meir served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 4 (NEEMO 4) crew. In June 2013 she was named an astronaut candidate by NASA, becoming one of the eight members of NASA Astronaut Group 21. She is from Caribou, Maine.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jessica_meir_image_20200417064900.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Meir", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2019-09-25T13:57:42Z" } }, { "id": 5204, "role": "Pilot", "astronaut": { "id": 712, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/712/?format=api", "name": "Jack Hathaway", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "In-Training" }, "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1982-01-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Jack Hathaway is a US Navy commander from Connecticut. He earned bachelors’ degrees in physics and history from the U.S. Naval Academy and completed graduate studies at Cranfield University in England and the U.S. Naval War College. A distinguished naval aviator, Hathaway flew and deployed with Navy’s Strike Fighter Squadron 14 aboard the USS Nimitz and Strike Fighter Squadron 136 aboard the USS Truman. He graduated from Empire Test Pilots’ School, supported the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and was most recently assigned as the prospective executive officer for Strike Fighter Squadron 81. He has more than 2,500 flight hours in 30 types of aircraft, more than 500 carrier arrested landings, and flew 39 combat missions.\r\n\r\nExact date of birth unknown.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jack_hathaway_image_20211206185407.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hathaway", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z" } }, { "id": 5195, "role": "Flight Engineer", "astronaut": { "id": 747, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/747/?format=api", "name": "Sophie Adenot", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "In-Training" }, "agency": { "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "type": "Multinational" }, "date_of_birth": "1982-07-05", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "French", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Soph_astro", "instagram": null, "bio": "Between 2001 and 2003, Sophie studied engineering and graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, where she specialised in spacecraft and aircraft flight dynamics. She then completed a Master of Science in human factors engineering at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA, in 2004.\r\nIn 2005, Sophie joined the French Air Force for her basic military training and initial flying training to become a helicopter pilot. \r\n\r\nIn 2018, she graduated with honours as a helicopter test pilot from the Empire Test Pilots’ School in Boscombe Down, UK. She was awarded the Mac Kenna trophy and the Patuxtent Shield.\r\nBetween 2019 and 2022, Sophie worked as a helicopter experimental test pilot in Cazaux Flight Test Center with DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement – the French Defence Procurement Agency). She has logged 3000 hours and flew on 22 different helicopter types. She also holds a military parachute license, a light aircraft pilot license and a glider pilot license.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sophie_adenot_image_20221123150954.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Adenot", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z" } }, { "id": 5197, "role": "Flight Engineer", "astronaut": { "id": 732, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/732/?format=api", "name": "Andrei Fedyaev", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1981-02-26", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Russian", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "bio": "Andrei Valerievich Fedyaev (Андрей Валерьевич Федяев) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a military pilot prior to retiring from Air Force in 2013, and was selected as a cosmonaut in 2012. \r\n\r\nISS-69 expedition will be Fedyaev's first spaceflight.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/andrei_fedyaev_image_20230207203113.jpg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Fedyaev", "last_flight": "2026-02-13T10:15:56Z", "first_flight": "2023-03-02T05:34:14Z" } } ], "spacecraft": { "id": 551, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/551/?format=api", "name": "Crew Dragon Freedom", "serial_number": "C212", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "Crew Dragon spacecraft first used for Crew-4.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 6, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/spacecraft/6/?format=api", "name": "Crew Dragon 2", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "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. 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