Launch Instance
AN API endpoint that returns all Launch objects or a single launch.
EXAMPLE - /launch/[id]/ or /launch/?mode=list&search=SpaceX
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', 'is_crewed', 'include_suborbital', 'spacecraft_config__ids', 'related', 'location__ids', 'lsp__ids', 'pad__ids', 'status__ids'
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 /2.2.0/launch/34fbbb9b-2a86-42cc-af02-6cfe1f4236f7/?format=api
{ "id": "34fbbb9b-2a86-42cc-af02-6cfe1f4236f7", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/34fbbb9b-2a86-42cc-af02-6cfe1f4236f7/?format=api", "slug": "smart-dragon-3-unknown-payload", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload", "status": { "id": 8, "name": "To Be Confirmed", "abbrev": "TBC", "description": "Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty." }, "last_updated": "2026-04-04T00:12:21Z", "updates": [ { "id": 14573, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs; Launch vehicle and payload identities highly uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2775501#msg2775501", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-04-04T00:12:00Z" } ], "net": "2026-04-10T11:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 2, "name": "Hour", "abbrev": "HR", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the hour." }, "window_end": "2026-04-10T14:00:00Z", "window_start": "2026-04-10T11:00:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 272, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/272/?format=api", "name": "China Rocket Co. Ltd.", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CHNR", "description": "China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 11, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520rocket2520co.2520ltd._logo_20221001084159.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china_rocket_co_image_20240922154013.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8960, "configuration": { "id": 484, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/484/?format=api", "name": "Smart Dragon 3", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Smart Dragon-3 is a solid fuel orbital rocket designed by a subsidiary of the state-owned CASC group built for the commercial market.", "family": "Smart Dragon", "full_name": "Smart Dragon 3", "manufacturer": { "id": 272, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/272/?format=api", "name": "China Rocket Co. Ltd.", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CHNR", "description": "China Rocket Co. Ltd. is a spinoff of China’s state-owned launch vehicle manufacturer using a “commercial business model”.", "administrator": null, "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 11, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 11, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520rocket2520co.2520ltd._logo_20221001084159.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china_rocket_co_image_20240922154013.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": null, "max_stage": null, "length": 32.0, "diameter": 2.64, "maiden_flight": "2022-12-09", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 140, "leo_capacity": null, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/smart_dragon_3__image_20240925074606.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "total_launch_count": 10, "consecutive_successful_launches": 10, "successful_launches": 10, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7555, "name": "Unknown Payload", "description": "Details TBD.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Unknown", "orbit": { "id": 25, "name": "Unknown", "abbrev": "N/A" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 217, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/217/?format=api", "agency_id": 88, "name": "South China Sea (launch location 1)", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=21.283333,112.0", "latitude": "21.283333", "longitude": "112.0", "location": { "id": 185, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/185/?format=api", "name": "Haiyang Oriental Spaceport", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "Chinese orbital launch vehicle launches supporting sea port located at Haiyang, Shandong Province, with dedicated piers and rocket/payload processing facilities for Chinese launch vehicles’ sea launches, and (as part of its expansion project) land based launch pads on artificial islands for various test vehicles and launch vehicles of private and government launch services providers.\r\n\r\nIn operation as a remote base of Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center since 2019.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_haiyang_oriental_spaceport_20251128181322.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 24, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_bo_run_jiu_zhou_mobile_launch_platform_20231206001303.jpg", "total_launch_count": 2, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 2 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/smart_dragon_3__image_20240925074606.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7258, "location_launch_attempt_count": 25, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 12, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 85, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_turnaround": "P836DT12H21M", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
