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/b31313da-ee5d-42b2-9a27-20cc18105276/?format=api
{ "id": "b31313da-ee5d-42b2-9a27-20cc18105276", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/b31313da-ee5d-42b2-9a27-20cc18105276/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "vega-c-solar-wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-link-ex", "name": "Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2026-05-19T03:52:10Z", "window_end": "2026-05-19T03:52:10Z", "window_start": "2026-05-19T03:52:10Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": "VV29", "launch_service_provider": { "id": 159, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/159/?format=api", "name": "Avio S.p.A", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "ITA", "abbrev": "Avio", "description": "Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.", "administrator": "CEO: Giulio Ranzo", "founding_year": "1908", "launchers": "Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 1, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 24, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.avio.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avio", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio2520s.p.a_logo_20221130103121.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio_social_log_image_20250211190007.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 7792, "configuration": { "id": 127, "launch_library_id": 163, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/127/?format=api", "name": "Vega-C", "description": "Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.", "family": "Vega", "full_name": "Vega-C", "manufacturer": { "id": 159, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/159/?format=api", "name": "Avio S.p.A", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "ITA", "abbrev": "Avio", "description": "Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.", "administrator": "CEO: Giulio Ranzo", "founding_year": "1908", "launchers": "Vega", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 1, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 24, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.avio.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avio", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio2520s.p.a_logo_20221130103121.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/avio_social_log_image_20250211190007.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 34.8, "diameter": 3.0, "maiden_flight": "2022-07-13", "launch_mass": 210, "leo_capacity": 3300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 2974, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "info_url": "https://www.arianespace.com/vehicle/vega/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(rocket)", "total_launch_count": 7, "consecutive_successful_launches": 5, "successful_launches": 6, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 22 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6309, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)", "description": "Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield – the magnetosphere – and the supersonic solar wind.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Astrophysics", "orbit": { "id": 0, "name": "Elliptical Orbit", "abbrev": "Elliptical" } }, "pad": { "id": 34, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/34/?format=api", "agency_id": 115, "name": "Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELA-1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=5.236,-52.775", "latitude": "5.236", "longitude": "-52.775", "location": { "id": 13, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/13/?format=api", "name": "Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana", "country_code": "GUF", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_13_20200803142412.jpg", "total_launch_count": 333, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_34_20200803143527.jpg", "total_launch_count": 55 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Smile Launch Kit", "description": null, "feature_image": null, "url": "https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/science/Smile_Launch_Kit_EN.pdf" }, { "priority": 10, "title": "Launch Kit VV29", "description": "Launch Kit VV29", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://www.avio.com/press-kit/launch-kit-vv29" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "ESA's Smile mission launch (Official broadcast)", "description": "Join us live on 19 May, as we broadcast the launch of the European-Chinese Smile mission.\n \nSmile will head to space on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.\n \nThis stream will include live launch footage from the launchpad and control room, as well as real-time interviews with people involved in the mission and its launch.\n \nFor the first time, Smile is going to reveal what really happens when charged particles from the Sun crash into Earth's magnetic shield.\n \nIt carries an X-ray camera to make the first X-ray observations of how exactly this shield responds to the solar wind, and an ultraviolet camera to watch the resulting northern lights for 45 hours at a time.\n \nFind out more at esa.int/smile\n\nChapters:\n00:00 Waiting\n00:57 Programme begins\n22:20 Liftoff\n1:18:...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6q8aKbcKCOs/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8aKbcKCOs" }, { "priority": 11, "title": "Vega C | Flight VV29 | SMILE | Avio", "description": "On 19 May 2026 at 00:52 a.m. local time (03:52 UTC, 05:52 CEST), Avio will launch the European Space Agency’s (ESA) and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (Smile) scientific satellite. The mission, designated “VV29”, will be carried out by a Vega-C launcher, the first operated by Avio, lifting off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana.\nSmile will be released into a circular orbit at an altitude of 700 km for a mission to a high inclination highly elliptical orbit with an apogee of 121.000 km and a perigee of 5000 km. The planned Smile separation time is about 57 minutes.\n\nThe satellite will measure the solar wind and its dynamic interactions with the Earth’s magnetosphere, enhancing our understanding of the connection between the ...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RgT3ubiqSe0/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgT3ubiqSe0" }, { "priority": 12, "title": "Vega C | Vol VV29 | SMILE | Avio", "description": "Le 19 mai 2026 à 0 h 52, heure locale (03 h 52 UTC, 05 h 52 CEST), Avio procédera au lancement du satellite scientifique Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), mission conjointe de l’ESA et de la CAS. Le vol, désigné « VV29 », sera réalisé par un lanceur Vega-C, exploité pour la première fois par Avio, depuis le Centre Spatial Européen en Guyane française.\n\nSMILE sera injecté sur une orbite circulaire à une altitude de 700 kilomètres, avant d’entamer sa mission sur une orbite fortement elliptique et à forte inclinaison, avec un apogée de 121 000 kilomètres et un périgée de 5 000 kilomètres. La séparation du satellite est prévue environ 57 minutes après le décollage.\n\nSMILE mesurera les interactions entre le vent solaire et la magnétosphère terrestre afin d’améliore...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KL8tN7ImVpI/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL8tN7ImVpI" }, { "priority": 13, "title": "Vega C | Volo VV29 | SMILE | Avio", "description": "Il 19 maggio 2026 alle 00:52 ora locale (03:52 UTC, 05:52 CEST), Avio lancerà il satellite scientifico Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (Smile) dell’ESA e la CAS. Il volo, denominato “VV29” sarà effettuato da un lanciatore Vega-C, per la prima volta operato da Avio, che decollerà dal Centro Spaziale Europeo in Guyana Francese.\n\nSmile sarà rilasciato in un’orbita circolare ad un’altitudine di 700 chilometri per una missione in orbita fortemente ellittica ad alta inclinazione, con apogeo a 121.000 chilometri e perigeo a 5.000 chilometri. Il volo avrà una durata prevista di circa 57 minuti.\n\nSmile misurerà le interazioni del vento solare con la magnetosfera terrestre per migliorare la nostra conoscenza delle dinamiche tra il Sole e la Terra. Il satellite pesa 2.250 chilo...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iV_A7ix3BAY/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_A7ix3BAY" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vega-c_image_20220713154437.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7287, "location_launch_attempt_count": 333, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 55, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 1, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 114, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 1 }
