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/39e6e2a1-945b-4271-a2e3-67d6b0e07e8a/?format=api
{ "id": "39e6e2a1-945b-4271-a2e3-67d6b0e07e8a", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/39e6e2a1-945b-4271-a2e3-67d6b0e07e8a/?format=api", "slug": "kuaizhou-1a-traffic-vdes-a-b", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Kuaizhou 1A | Traffic VDES A & B", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-12-13T03:54:12Z", "updates": [ { "id": 13116, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs/marine navigation warnings; Payload and launch vehicle identities highly uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2739514#msg2739514", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-02T21:48:00Z" }, { "id": 13127, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Delayed to December 5 per new NOTAMs/marine navigation warnings.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2739873#msg2739873", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-04T01:42:00Z" }, { "id": 13145, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5240550926321771", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-05T12:18:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-12-05T09:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-12-05T09:54:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-05T08:54:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 194, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/194/?format=api", "name": "ExPace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "EP", "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di", "founding_year": "2016", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 33, "consecutive_successful_launches": 4, "successful_launches": 29, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPace", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8830, "configuration": { "id": 135, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/135/?format=api", "name": "Kuaizhou 1A", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Kuaizhou is a family of Chinese \"quick-reaction\" orbital launch vehicles. Flying since 2013, Kuaizhou 1 and 1A consist of three solid-fueled rocket stages, with a liquid-fueled fourth stage as part of the satellite system.", "family": "Kuaizhou", "full_name": "Kuaizhou 1A", "manufacturer": { "id": 194, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/194/?format=api", "name": "ExPace", "featured": false, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "EP", "description": "ExPace is a Chinese space rocket company based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of missileer China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a Chinese state-owned company, and serves as its commercial rocket division. ExPace is focused on small satellite launchers to low Earth orbit.", "administrator": "CEO: Zhang Di", "founding_year": "2016", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 33, "consecutive_successful_launches": 4, "successful_launches": 29, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPace", "logo_url": null, "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/expace_nation_20230608044150.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "1A", "alias": "", "min_stage": 4, "max_stage": 4, "length": 19.4, "diameter": 1.4, "maiden_flight": "2017-01-09", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 30, "leo_capacity": 300, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuaizhou", "total_launch_count": 31, "consecutive_successful_launches": 2, "successful_launches": 28, "failed_launches": 3, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7421, "name": "Traffic VDES A & B", "description": "Two technology demonstration satellites for satellite transmissions of signals for the VHF Data Exchange System (VDES), a successor to the current Automatic Identification System (AIS) on ships and maritime vessels for traffic management at sea with higher bandwidth on new frequencies for secure communications and e-navigation.\r\n\r\nThis project is a joint effort by the China Ministry of Transport's China Transport Telecommunications Information Center and SpaceSail, operator of the Qianfan/G60 constellation.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Technology", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 21, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/21/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "Launch Area 95A", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiuquan_Satellite_Launch_Center", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.969117,100.343333", "latitude": "40.969117", "longitude": "100.343333", "location": { "id": 17, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/17/?format=api", "name": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese spaceport located between the Ejin, Alxa, Inner Mongolia and Hangtian Town, Jinta County, Jiuquan, Gansu Province. It is part of the Dongfeng Aerospace City (Base 10).", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_17_20200803142429.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 281, "total_landing_count": 2 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_21_20200803143253.jpg", "total_launch_count": 66, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 66 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kuaizhou_1a_lau_image_20251206092920.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7140, "location_launch_attempt_count": 268, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 63, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 31, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 291, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 29, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_turnaround": "P25DT4H57M7S", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
