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/cdeb321f-0860-4064-ba76-4ad0f9022103/?format=api
{ "id": "cdeb321f-0860-4064-ba76-4ad0f9022103", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/cdeb321f-0860-4064-ba76-4ad0f9022103/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1300, "slug": "falcon-1-flight-3", "name": "Falcon 1 | Flight 3", "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Failure" }, "net": "2008-08-03T03:34:00Z", "window_end": "2008-08-03T03:34:00Z", "window_start": "2008-08-03T03:34:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "Residual stage 1 thrust led to collision between stage 1 and stage 2 during separation.", "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": 745, "consecutive_successful_launches": 230, "successful_launches": 730, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 136, "consecutive_successful_landings": 39, "successful_landings": 690, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 718, "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": 1398, "configuration": { "id": 133, "launch_library_id": 160, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/133/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 1", "description": "The Falcon 1 was the first launch vehicle developed and manufactured by SpaceX in 2006. It is an expendable, two stage rocket where each stage is powered by a single LOX/RP1 engine.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 1", "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": 745, "consecutive_successful_launches": 230, "successful_launches": 730, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 136, "consecutive_successful_landings": 39, "successful_landings": 690, "failed_landings": 29, "attempted_landings": 718, "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": [], "variant": "1", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 22.25, "diameter": 1.7, "maiden_flight": "2006-03-24", "launch_mass": 33, "leo_capacity": 470, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 454, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon_image_20190222030438.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1", "total_launch_count": 5, "consecutive_successful_launches": 2, "successful_launches": 2, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 365, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 5, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/5/?format=api", "details": "Residual stage-1 thrust led to collision between stage 1 and stage 2.", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "F1 B0003", "status": "lost", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/5_image_20230707190424.jpg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2008-08-03T03:34:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2008-08-03T03:34:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1190, "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "Booster destroyed during recontact with second stage.", "location": { "id": 15, "name": "South Pacific", "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.", "location": { "id": 10, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "total_launch_count": 86, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "successful_landings": 4 }, "type": { "id": 8, "name": "Expended", "abbrev": "EXP", "description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6460, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Flight 3", "description": "Trailblazer, PRESat, NanoSail-D and a Celestis payload were part of the rideshare on the 3rd Falcon 1 launch.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Dedicated Rideshare", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 107, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/107/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Omelek Island", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omelek_Island", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=9.047861,167.743", "latitude": "9.047861", "longitude": "167.743", "location": { "id": 142, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/142/?format=api", "name": "Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands", "country_code": "MHL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_142_20200803142511.jpg", "total_launch_count": 5, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_107_20200803143450.jpg", "total_launch_count": 5 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "title": "FALCON 1, FLIGHT 3 MISSION SUMMARY", "description": "Timing is Everything", "feature_image": null, "url": "http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/02/11/falcon-1-flight-3-mission-summary" }, { "priority": 0, "title": "Falcon 1 - Wikipedia", "description": "Falcon 1 was a small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009[5] by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. On 28 September 2008, Falcon 1 became the first privately-developed fully liquid-fueled launch vehicle to go into orbit around the Earth.[6][7]: 203\n\nThe two-stage-to-orbit ...", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1#Third_flight" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "title": "Launch Failure of SpaceX Falcon 1 - Flight 3", "description": "SpaceX had a rough day. 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