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/4e6e74a5-6ffb-4dc3-8f39-90545067bf12/?format=api
{ "id": "4e6e74a5-6ffb-4dc3-8f39-90545067bf12", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/4e6e74a5-6ffb-4dc3-8f39-90545067bf12/?format=api", "slug": "angara-a5briz-m-kosmos-unknown-payload", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Angara A5/Briz-M | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-06-21T07:10:43Z", "updates": [ { "id": 11312, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff.", "info_url": "https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/24269827", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-06-19T03:50:00Z" }, { "id": 11320, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success.", "info_url": "https://www.roscosmos.ru/41602/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-06-20T07:06:00Z" }, { "id": 11234, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch; Payload identity highly uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60779.msg2692954#msg2692954", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-06-09T17:03:00Z" }, { "id": 11283, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Updated launch window.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60779.msg2693929#msg2693929", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-06-15T01:32:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-06-19T03:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 2, "name": "Hour", "abbrev": "HR", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the hour." }, "window_end": "2025-06-19T04:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-06-19T02:30:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 193, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/193/?format=api", "name": "Russian Space Forces", "featured": false, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "VKS", "description": "The Russian Space Forces are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following August 1, 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch. The Russian Space Forces were originally formed on August 10, 1992 and the creation of the Russian Armed Forces.", "administrator": "Commander: Aleksandr Golovko", "founding_year": "1992", "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 145, "consecutive_successful_launches": 57, "successful_launches": 137, "failed_launches": 8, "pending_launches": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Aerospace_Forces", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520space2520forces_logo_20200805185824.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520space2520forces_image_20191210085547.png", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/russian2520space2520forces_nation_20230805154528.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8636, "configuration": { "id": 504, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/504/?format=api", "name": "Angara A5/Briz-M", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "Angara A5/Briz-M is an Angara A5 with an Briz-M upper stage previously used on the Proton launch vehicle.", "family": "Angara", "full_name": "Angara A5/Briz-M", "manufacturer": { "id": 96, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/96/?format=api", "name": "Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "RUS", "abbrev": "KhSC", "description": "Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is a Moscow-based producer of spacecraft and space-launch systems, including the Proton and Rokot rockets and is currently developing the Angara rocket family. The Proton launch vehicle launches from Baikonur and Rokot launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk. Angara will launch from Plesetsk and Vostochny.", "administrator": "Director: Andrey Vladimirovich Kalinovskiy", "founding_year": "1916", "launchers": "Proton | Rokot", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 196, "consecutive_successful_launches": 7, "successful_launches": 181, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "info_url": "https://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?lang=en", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrunichev_State_Research_and_Production_Space_Center", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/khrunichev2520state2520research2520and2520production2520space2520center_logo_20190207032444.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/khrunichev2520state2520research2520and2520production2520space2520center_image_20190207032444.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/khrunichev_stat_image_20240409071747.jpg" }, "program": [], "variant": "A5/Briz-M", "alias": "", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 55.4, "diameter": 8.86, "maiden_flight": "2014-12-23", "launch_cost": "31000000", "launch_mass": 773, "leo_capacity": 24500, "gto_capacity": 5400, "to_thrust": 9600, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/angara_a52fbri_image_20240102171438.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angara_(rocket_family)", "total_launch_count": 3, "consecutive_successful_launches": 3, "successful_launches": 3, "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": 7228, "name": "Kosmos (Unknown Payload)", "description": "Unidentified payload for the Russian military.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 25, "name": "Unknown", "abbrev": "N/A" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 42, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/42/?format=api", "agency_id": 163, "name": "35/1", "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome_Site_35", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=62.927319,40.574897", "latitude": "62.927319", "longitude": "40.574897", "location": { "id": 6, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/6/?format=api", "name": "Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation", "country_code": "RUS", "description": "Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk. Originally developed as an ICBM site for the R-7 missile, it also served for numerous satellite launches using the R-7 and other rockets. Its high latitude makes it useful only for certain types of launches, especially the Molniya orbits, so for much of the site's history it functioned as a secondary location, with most orbital launches taking place from Baikonur, in the Kazakh SSR. With the end of the Soviet Union, Baikonur became a foreign territory, and Kazakhstan charged $115 million usage fees annually. Consequently, Plesetsk has seen considerably more activity since the 2000s.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_6_20200803142434.jpg", "timezone_name": "Europe/Moscow", "total_launch_count": 1676, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "RUS", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_42_20200803143543.jpg", "total_launch_count": 9, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 9 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/angara_a52fbri_image_20240102171438.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 6984, "location_launch_attempt_count": 1676, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 9, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 145, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 135, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 5, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_turnaround": "P94DT16H10M34S", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
