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/5fc609f3-4aee-4ffd-968d-b4cddcd9e381/?format=api
{ "id": "5fc609f3-4aee-4ffd-968d-b4cddcd9e381", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/5fc609f3-4aee-4ffd-968d-b4cddcd9e381/?format=api", "slug": "long-march-7a-yaogan-46", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Long March 7A | Yaogan 46", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-11-16T12:43:22Z", "updates": [ { "id": 12745, "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/5228874585867816", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-11-03T04:36:00Z" }, { "id": 12711, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload identity highly uncertain.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2730176#msg2730176", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-10-30T14:29:00Z" }, { "id": 12744, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Liftoff.", "info_url": "https://www.youtube.com/live/iNB7Cq4vrkk", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-11-03T03:48:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-11-03T03:47:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-11-03T04:02:00Z", "window_start": "2025-11-03T03:39:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 88, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 582, "consecutive_successful_launches": 8, "successful_launches": 567, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 12, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "info_url": "https://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "rocket": { "id": 8781, "configuration": { "id": 216, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/216/?format=api", "name": "Long March 7A", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "", "family": "Long March", "full_name": "Long March 7A", "manufacturer": { "id": 88, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "CHN", "abbrev": "CASC", "description": "The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.", "administrator": "Chairman & President: Lei Fanpei", "founding_year": "1999", "launchers": "Long March", "spacecraft": "", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 582, "consecutive_successful_launches": 8, "successful_launches": 567, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 12, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 1, "attempted_landings": 1, "info_url": "https://english.spacechina.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_logo_20220826093937.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_image_20191228094408.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/china2520aerospace2520science2520and2520technology2520corporation_nation_20230604193716.png" }, "program": [], "variant": "A", "alias": "", "min_stage": null, "max_stage": null, "length": null, "diameter": null, "maiden_flight": "2020-03-16", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": null, "leo_capacity": null, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": null, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cz-7a_launch_2_image_20251206093324.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "total_launch_count": 14, "consecutive_successful_launches": 13, "successful_launches": 13, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 1, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7372, "name": "Yaogan 46", "description": "Classified Earth observation satellite officially reported as for \"national resources/hydrology/meteorology surveying & disaster management\" purposes.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 12, "name": "Medium Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "MEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 176, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/176/?format=api", "agency_id": null, "name": "201", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenchang_Spacecraft_Launch_Site", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=19.618452,110.955356", "latitude": "19.618452", "longitude": "110.955356", "location": { "id": 8, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/8/?format=api", "name": "Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "The Wenchang Space Launch Site is a rocket launch site located in Wenchang on the island of Hainan, in China.\r\n\r\nFormally a suborbital test center, it currently serves as China's southernmost spaceport. The site was selected for its low latitude, 19° north of the equator, allowing for larger payloads to be launched. It is capable of launching the Long March 5, the heaviest Chinese rocket. Unlike launch facilities on the mainland, Wenchang uses its seaport for deliveries.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_8_20200803142445.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 58, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_176_20200803143412.jpg", "total_launch_count": 28, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 28 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [ { "priority": 9, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "SciNews", "title": "Long March-7A launches Yaogan-46", "description": "A Long March-7A launch vehicle (长征七号A) launched the Yaogan-46 remote sensing satellite (遥感四十六号卫星) from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site Hainan Province, China, on 3 November 2025, at 03:47 UTC (11:...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0lkiytkDymU/maxresdefault.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lkiytkDymU", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Recap" }, "language": { "id": 1, "name": "English", "code": "en" }, "start_time": "2025-11-03T08:24:07Z", "end_time": "2025-11-03T08:25:13Z" }, { "priority": 10, "source": "youtube.com", "publisher": "International Rocket Launches", "title": "Live: Long March 7A Flight 12 Launch (No Commentary)", "description": "Footage courtesy of 追箭部落\n\nInternational Rocket Launches provides commentary-free coverage of select global rocket launches.\n\nFollow @IntRocketLaunch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IntRocketLaunch \n\nR...", "feature_image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iNB7Cq4vrkk/maxresdefault_live.jpg", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNB7Cq4vrkk", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Unofficial Webcast" }, "language": { "id": 2, "name": "Chinese", "code": "zn" }, "start_time": "2025-11-03T02:45:12Z", "end_time": "2025-11-03T03:49:36Z" } ], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cz-7a_launch_2_image_20251206093324.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7105, "location_launch_attempt_count": 48, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 26, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 552, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 256, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 14, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 6, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 51, "pad_turnaround": "P55DT1H47M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 1212, "name": "CZ-7A Yaogan 46", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/cz-7a2520yaoga_mission_patch_20251116124250.png", "agency": null } ], "type": "detailed" }
