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/d6ab90f9-3897-4c0e-9a2b-c3a940dc4abb/?format=api
{ "id": "d6ab90f9-3897-4c0e-9a2b-c3a940dc4abb", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/d6ab90f9-3897-4c0e-9a2b-c3a940dc4abb/?format=api", "slug": "long-march-3be-tjsw-22", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Long March 3B/E | TJSW-22", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2025-12-12T11:44:13Z", "updates": [ { "id": 13203, "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/5242089073022279", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-09T15:52:00Z" }, { "id": 13134, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch per NOTAMs; Payload identities uncertain (probably with TJSW-22).", "info_url": "https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57867.msg2739992#msg2739992", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-12-04T17:00:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-12-09T15:08:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-12-09T15:57:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-09T15:00:00Z", "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": 8834, "configuration": { "id": 50, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/50/?format=api", "name": "Long March 3B/E", "active": true, "reusable": false, "description": "The Long March 3B / E (G2) (CZ-3B / E) is one of the most successful medium-range launchers and the strongest variant of the CZ-3 series.\r\nIt was specially developed for the transport of heavy communications satellites into a geostationary transfer orbit.\r\n\r\nThe additional designation \"E\" stands for a higher payload fairing, stretched boosters and extended fuel tanks at the first stage, over the CZ-3B.", "family": "Long March", "full_name": "Long March 3B/E", "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": "B/E", "alias": "CZ-3B/E", "min_stage": 3, "max_stage": 3, "length": 56.3, "diameter": 3.35, "maiden_flight": "2007-05-13", "launch_cost": "70000000", "launch_mass": 456, "leo_capacity": 12000, "gto_capacity": 5500, "to_thrust": 5924, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long2520march_image_20230907120240.jpeg", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_3B", "total_launch_count": 76, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 74, "failed_launches": 2, "pending_launches": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7425, "name": "TJSW-22", "description": "Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Government/Top Secret", "orbit": { "id": 2, "name": "Geostationary Transfer Orbit", "abbrev": "GTO" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 66, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/66/?format=api", "agency_id": 17, "name": "Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)", "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xichang_Satellite_Launch_Center", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.247209,102.02917", "latitude": "28.247209", "longitude": "102.02917", "location": { "id": 16, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/16/?format=api", "name": "Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China", "country_code": "CHN", "description": "The Xichang Satellite Launch Center is a spaceport in China. It is located in Zeyuan Town, northwest of Xichang, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_16_20200803142513.jpg", "timezone_name": "Asia/Shanghai", "total_launch_count": 238, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "country_code": "CHN", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_66_20200803143611.jpg", "total_launch_count": 106, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 106 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/long2520march_image_20230907120240.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7146, "location_launch_attempt_count": 235, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 105, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 562, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 297, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 18, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 9, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 61, "pad_turnaround": "P44DT11H13M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 1240, "name": "CZ-3B/E TJSW-22", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/cz-3b2fe2520t_mission_patch_20251209174214.png", "agency": { "id": 88, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/88/?format=api", "name": "China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation", "type": "Government" } }, { "id": 1241, "name": "CZ-3B/E TJSW-22 2", "priority": 11, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/cz-3b2fe2520t_mission_patch_20251209174317.png", "agency": null } ], "type": "detailed" }
