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/c7ae20f6-347c-4039-a933-0ed9b28ad4b9/?format=api
{ "id": "c7ae20f6-347c-4039-a933-0ed9b28ad4b9", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/c7ae20f6-347c-4039-a933-0ed9b28ad4b9/?format=api", "slug": "long-march-12a-demo-flight", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Long March 12A | Demo Flight", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-12-23T04:18:05Z", "updates": [ { "id": 13446, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Launch success, first stage landing attempt failed.", "info_url": "https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5246987868832950", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-23T04:18:00Z" }, { "id": 13333, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Apparently launch was delayed with rocket requiring roll-back; new information pending.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=63839.msg2743340#msg2743340", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-15T06:49:00Z" }, { "id": 13089, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch.", "info_url": "https://x.com/raz_liu/status/1995446630477156395", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-01T16:44:00Z" }, { "id": 13262, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET December 17 per NOTAMs (note that identity of this particular launch is uncertain).", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2742473#msg2742473", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-12T03:39:00Z" }, { "id": 13436, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Rescheduled for December 23 per NOTAMs.", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2745450#msg2745450", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-22T04:24:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-12-23T02:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-12-23T04:14:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-23T01:54:00Z", "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": 8820, "configuration": { "id": 538, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/538/?format=api", "name": "Long March 12A", "active": true, "reusable": true, "description": "Long March 12A/Changzheng 12A (LM-12A/CZ-12A) is a reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The rocket is based on the Long March 12, but extensively re-designed for first stage re-usability, and use of gas generator cycle methane/liquid oxygen powered rocket engines in both stages.\r\n\r\nThe first stage uses 7 Longyun-70 engines designed and manufactured by the private company Jiuzhou Yunjian (JZYJ), while the second stage uses 1 YF-209V engine from CASC's Academy of Aerospace Liquid Propulsion Technology (AALPT).\r\n\r\nOn launch missions where the first stage is recovered, it will land on a down-range landing pad located in Minqin County, Gansu Province.", "family": "Long March", "full_name": "Long March 12A", "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": "", "alias": "CZ-12A", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 69.0, "diameter": 3.8, "maiden_flight": "2025-12-23", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": null, "leo_capacity": 12000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 5250, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long_march_12a__image_20251224005749.jpg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_12A", "total_launch_count": 1, "consecutive_successful_launches": 1, "successful_launches": 1, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 1, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 1, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 851, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 246, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/246/?format=api", "details": "First stage booster used on the 1st flight of CASC's Long March 12A rocket. Booster attempted to land downrange on its dedicated landing pad, but the entry-landing burn was abnormal and it impacted the ground several kilometers from the landing pad.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "LM-12A F1", "status": "destroyed", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long_march_12a__image_20251224005749.jpg", "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 1, "flights": 1, "last_launch_date": "2025-12-23T02:00:00Z", "first_launch_date": "2025-12-23T02:00:00Z" }, "landing": { "id": 1746, "attempt": true, "success": false, "description": "The Long March 12A first stage booster performed its entry burn with issues and the booster crashed within several kilometers of the landing pad.", "downrange_distance": 252.0, "location": { "id": 61, "name": "Long March 12A Landing Site", "abbrev": "CZ-12A LZ", "description": "Landing site for first stage boosters of CASC’s Long March 12A rocket at Minqin County, Gansu Province, China.", "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 }, "successful_landings": 0 }, "type": { "id": 9, "name": "Vertical Landing", "abbrev": "VL", "description": "Vertical landing using engines" } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7411, "name": "Demo Flight", "description": "First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 247, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/247/?format=api", "agency_id": 88, "name": "Long March 12 series Pad", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_12A", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=40.89154,100.21739", "latitude": "40.89154", "longitude": "100.21739", "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_long_march_12a_pad_20251128223939.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 1 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long_march_12a__image_20251224005749.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7166, "location_launch_attempt_count": 272, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 566, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 317, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 33, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 65, "pad_turnaround": "P0D", "mission_patches": [], "type": "detailed" }
