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/3de97847-11cd-40e3-ba7f-e16b276612de/?format=api
{ "id": "3de97847-11cd-40e3-ba7f-e16b276612de", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/3de97847-11cd-40e3-ba7f-e16b276612de/?format=api", "slug": "electron-insight-at-speed-is-a-friend-indeed-black", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Electron | Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2026-03-09T15:45:16Z", "updates": [ { "id": 14175, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/ll2_profile_20230311134739.png", "comment": "Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhLu0hOB14", "created_by": "LL2", "created_on": "2026-03-05T23:34:00Z" }, { "id": 14171, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "GO for launch.", "info_url": "https://x.com/rocketlab/status/2029631123769413832", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-03-05T19:00:00Z" }, { "id": 14174, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Updated launch weather, 80% GO.", "info_url": "https://x.com/rocketlab/status/2029648764408058083", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-03-05T20:05:00Z" }, { "id": 14176, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff.", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhLu0hOB14", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-03-05T23:54:00Z" }, { "id": 14177, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://x.com/rocketlab/status/2029722936014426336", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-03-06T01:18:00Z" }, { "id": 4827, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Adding launch NET 2024", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/blacksky-signs-new-block-buy-for-five-rocket-lab-launches/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2023-08-10T08:24:39Z" } ], "net": "2026-03-05T23:53:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2026-03-06T01:53:00Z", "window_start": "2026-03-05T23:53:00Z", "probability": 80, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 147, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/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": 85, "consecutive_successful_launches": 44, "successful_launches": 81, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 41, "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": 7981, "configuration": { "id": 26, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "active": true, "reusable": false, "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/2.2.0/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": 85, "consecutive_successful_launches": 44, "successful_launches": 81, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 41, "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_cost": "6000000", "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": 85, "consecutive_successful_launches": 44, "successful_launches": 81, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 39, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 6504, "name": "Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)", "description": "Note: Payload and customer identities were not publicly announced.\r\n\r\n4th of the BlackSky Gen-3 high resolution Earth-imaging satellites.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Earth Science", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 1064, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/1064/?format=api", "name": "BlackSky", "featured": false, "type": "Private", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "BS", "description": "BlackSky is an American private aerospace company specializing in geospatial intelligence services. It operates the BlackSky constellation of Earth-imaging small satellites.", "administrator": "CEO: Brian O’Toole", "founding_year": "2013", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.blacksky.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_Industries#BlackSky", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blacksky_logo_20230810081114.png", "image_url": null, "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blacksky_nation_20230810082744.jpg" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 65, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/65/?format=api", "agency_id": 147, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A", "description": "", "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/2.2.0/location/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "country_code": "NZL", "description": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. With the Electron launch of 21 January 2018, it became the first private spaceport to host a successful orbital launch.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "timezone_name": "Pacific/Auckland", "total_launch_count": 74, "total_landing_count": 17 }, "country_code": "NZL", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_65_20200803143549.jpg", "total_launch_count": 39, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 39 }, "infoURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "rocketlabcorp.com", "title": "Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed", "description": "“Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed” is a dedicated Electron mission to deploy a single commercial satellite to a 470 km low Earth orbit. The satellite will also deployed from a Rocket Lab Motorized Lightband, a separation system for satellites with 100% mission success that showcases the streamlin...", "feature_image": null, "url": "https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/launches/insight-at-speed-is-a-friend-indeed/", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Page" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" } } ], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "Rocket Lab", "title": "Rocket Lab - 'Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed' Launch", "description": "", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VQhLu0hOB14/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhLu0hOB14", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Official Webcast" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2026-03-05T23:33:57Z", "end_time": "2026-03-06T00:05:04Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7220, "location_launch_attempt_count": 72, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 38, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 83, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 47, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_turnaround": "P34DT22H31M21S", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 1310, "name": "Insight at Speed is a Friend Indeed Patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/insight2520at_mission_patch_20260305200645.png", "agency": { "id": 147, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "type": "Commercial" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
