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/de278bee-4f84-4418-a3f3-4d5b969a363f/?format=api
{ "id": "de278bee-4f84-4418-a3f3-4d5b969a363f", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/de278bee-4f84-4418-a3f3-4d5b969a363f/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 155, "slug": "falcon-9-v11-jason-3", "name": "Falcon 9 v1.1 | Jason-3", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2016-01-17T18:42:18Z", "window_end": "2016-01-17T18:42:18Z", "window_start": "2016-01-17T18:42:18Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": null, "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": 1901, "configuration": { "id": 14, "launch_library_id": 1, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/14/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "description": "Falcon 9 v1.1 is a significantly redesigned version of the its predecessor, including a higher payload capacity. This version arranges the engines in a structural form SpaceX calls an Octaweb.", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 v1.1", "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": [ { "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" } ], "variant": "v1.1", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 68.4, "diameter": 3.65, "maiden_flight": "2013-09-29", "launch_mass": 506, "leo_capacity": 13150, "gto_capacity": 4850, "to_thrust": 5883, "apogee": 200, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520v1.1_image_20190222030927.jpeg", "info_url": "http://www.spacex.com/falcon9", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_v1.1", "total_launch_count": 15, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 14, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 20, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 28, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launcher/28/?format=api", "details": "Destroyed after drone ship landing due to landing leg failure", "flight_proven": true, "serial_number": "B1017", "status": "lost", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/28_image_20190226105336.jpeg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2016-01-17T18:42:18Z", "first_launch_date": "2016-01-17T18:42:18Z" }, "landing": { "id": 59, "attempt": true, "success": false, "description": "The first stage attempted a landing however one of its landing legs did not 'lock-in' so upon touching down the leg collapsed, causing the stage to tip.", "location": { "id": 3, "name": "Just Read the Instructions", "abbrev": "JRTI", "description": "Third (Marmac 303) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Atlantic Ocean.", "location": null, "successful_landings": 156 }, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship", "abbrev": "ASDS", "description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 84, "launch_library_id": 134, "name": "Jason 3", "description": "Jason 3 is a scientific Earth observation satellite designed to monitor and precisely measure the world’s oceans. The final flight of Falcon 9 v1.1.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 16, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/16/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Space Launch Complex 4E", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_Space_Launch_Complex_4#SLC-4E", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=34.632,-120.611", "latitude": "34.632", "longitude": "-120.611", "location": { "id": 11, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/11/?format=api", "name": "Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_11_20200803142416.jpg", "total_launch_count": 924, "total_landing_count": 37 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_16_20200803143532.jpg", "total_launch_count": 308 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 0, "title": "Jason-3 Rocket and Countdown Only", "description": "With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the Jason-3 satellite to low-Earth orbit for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Ad...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vkz_lclGXNg/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkz_lclGXNg" }, { "priority": 0, "title": "Jason-3 Hosted Webcast", "description": "With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the Jason-3 satellite to low-Earth orbit for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Ad...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ivdKRJzl6y0/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdKRJzl6y0" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon252092520v1.1_image_20190222030927.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 5531, "location_launch_attempt_count": 663, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 70, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 26, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 1 }
