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/de6db617-3d40-414a-86d6-f365b130df30/?format=api
{ "id": "de6db617-3d40-414a-86d6-f365b130df30", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/de6db617-3d40-414a-86d6-f365b130df30/?format=api", "launch_library_id": 1309, "slug": "electron-raise-and-shine-raise-4", "name": "Electron | Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Success" }, "net": "2025-12-14T03:09:00Z", "window_end": "2025-12-14T03:09:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-14T03:09:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": 90, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 147, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 84, "consecutive_successful_launches": 43, "successful_launches": 80, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 42, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 186, "configuration": { "id": 26, "launch_library_id": 148, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "description": "Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab. Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.", "family": "", "full_name": "Electron", "manufacturer": { "id": 147, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "RL", "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": "2006", "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 84, "consecutive_successful_launches": 43, "successful_launches": 80, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 42, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "info_url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 1.2, "maiden_flight": "2017-05-25", "launch_mass": 13, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 162, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/electron/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron", "total_launch_count": 84, "consecutive_successful_launches": 43, "successful_launches": 80, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 40 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6304, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)", "description": "RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments.\r\n\r\n6 of the demonstration payload, as well as as well as 4 cubesats originally planned to ride on the same launch vehicle, are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022.\r\n\r\nThe launch vehicle was switched from Epsilon-S to Rocket Lab's Electron due to continuous testing problems with the Epsilon-S' 2nd stage motor. The original 8 hitch-hiking cubesats will be launched on another Electron rocket later.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Technology", "orbit": { "id": 17, "name": "Sun-Synchronous Orbit", "abbrev": "SSO" } }, "pad": { "id": 185, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/185/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Launch_Complex_1", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=-39.262833,177.864469", "latitude": "-39.262833", "longitude": "177.864469", "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": 73, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_185_20200803143540.jpg", "total_launch_count": 35 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": null, "description": null, "feature_image": null, "url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com//assets/Uploads/RL-F77-JAXA-Presskit-v3.pdf" } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "title": "Rocket Lab - 'RAISE and Shine' Launch for JAXA", "description": "", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cMP328yoUu4/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMP328yoUu4" }, { "priority": 11, "title": "革新的衛星技術実証4号機（小型実証衛星4号機）打上げライブ中継", "description": "革新的衛星技術実証4号機（小型実証衛星4号機）打上げの様子をライブ中継します。\n\n配信予定：2025年12月14日（日） 11:30頃～\n打上げ予定時間：2025年12月14日（日） 12時00分（日本標準時）\n打上げ手段：Electron（Rocket Lab社）\n3.打上げ場所：ニュージーランド・マヒア半島 第1発射施設", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REvfb0KvU_Y/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvfb0KvU_Y" } ], "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_on_the_image_20251215194048.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7153, "location_launch_attempt_count": 68, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 33, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 77, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 304, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 16, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 19 }
