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/ed83366c-872c-4484-97c1-bc74832304fc/?format=api
{ "id": "ed83366c-872c-4484-97c1-bc74832304fc", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/ed83366c-872c-4484-97c1-bc74832304fc/?format=api", "slug": "starship-flight-12", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Starship | Flight 12", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "To Be Determined", "abbrev": "TBD", "description": "Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources." }, "last_updated": "2026-04-04T14:17:50Z", "updates": [ { "id": 14207, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "NET April", "info_url": "https://spacenews.com/first-starship-v3-launch-slips/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2026-03-09T12:32:00Z" }, { "id": 12766, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET January.", "info_url": "https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1986086826600186264", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-11-05T18:10:00Z" }, { "id": 14580, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "NET May.", "info_url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2039978694425682321", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-04-04T14:17:00Z" }, { "id": 12173, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/lucas2520stauder_profile_20230526163835.jpg", "comment": "Added launch", "info_url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1960816999371825302", "created_by": "hitura-nobad", "created_on": "2025-09-10T08:21:00Z" }, { "id": 13539, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Moved to NET Q1 based on vehicle testing progress.", "info_url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/12/flight-12-vehicles-2026/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2026-01-07T15:28:00Z" }, { "id": 13818, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/arnaud2520muller_profile_20230607144351.jpg", "comment": "Targeting March", "info_url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-next-starship-test-flight-in-march/", "created_by": "Nosu", "created_on": "2026-01-29T12:13:00Z" } ], "net": "2026-05-31T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 7, "name": "Month", "abbrev": "M", "description": "The T-0 is expected in the given month." }, "window_end": "2026-05-31T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2026-05-31T00:00:00Z", "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 660, "consecutive_successful_launches": 145, "successful_launches": 645, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 144, "successful_landings": 605, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 631, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8708, "configuration": { "id": 522, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/522/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "active": false, "reusable": true, "description": "Third development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "family": "Starship", "full_name": "Starship V3", "manufacturer": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 660, "consecutive_successful_launches": 145, "successful_launches": 645, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 144, "successful_landings": 605, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 631, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "program": [ { "id": 1, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/1/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starship", "description": "The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.", "agencies": [ { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_on_the_image_20250111100520.jpg", "start_date": "2019-03-01T05:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 7, "name": "Technology" } } ], "variant": "V3", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 124.4, "diameter": 9.0, "maiden_flight": null, "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 5250, "leo_capacity": 100000, "gto_capacity": null, "to_thrust": 80807, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Block_3", "total_launch_count": 0, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 0, "failed_launches": 0, "pending_launches": 2, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 801, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 243, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/243/?format=api", "details": "First Block 3 Super Heavy booster to fly with various enhancements including Raptor 3 engines, integrated interstage and 3 grid fins instead of 4 used. Planned for usage on the 12th Starship flight test, replacing Booster 18 written off during ground testing in November 2025.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "Booster 19", "status": "active", "image_url": null, "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 0, "last_launch_date": null, "first_launch_date": null }, "landing": null, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": { "id": 895, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/895/?format=api", "mission_end": null, "destination": "Suborbital", "launch_crew": [], "onboard_crew": [], "landing_crew": [], "spacecraft": { "id": 621, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/621/?format=api", "name": "Ship 39", "serial_number": "S39", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 0, "mission_ends_count": 0, "status": { "id": 5, "name": "Under construction" }, "description": "First V3 Starship planned to fly on flight 12.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 46, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/46/?format=api", "name": "Starship V3", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Reuseable Upper Stage" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png" }, "in_use": true, "capability": "More than 100 tons to Earth orbit", "history": "The third-generation Starship upper stage will be introduced on flight 12.", "details": "Third-generation second stage of the two-stage Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "maiden_flight": null, "height": 52.1, "diameter": 9.0, "human_rated": false, "crew_capacity": null, "payload_capacity": null, "payload_return_capacity": null, "flight_life": "Unknown at this stage", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_during_image_20250824175325.jpg", "nation_url": null, "wiki_link": "", "info_link": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship" } }, "landing": { "id": 1757, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "A landing and splashdown in the Indian Ocean is expected", "downrange_distance": null, "location": { "id": 32, "name": "Indian Ocean", "abbrev": "IND", "description": "Indian Ocean", "location": null, "successful_landings": 8 }, "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Ocean", "abbrev": "Ocean", "description": "No recovery attempt" } }, "docking_events": [] } }, "mission": { "id": 7301, "name": "Flight 12", "description": "12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub" }, "agencies": [ { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "featured": true, "type": "Commercial", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "SpX", "description": "Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.", "administrator": "CEO: Elon Musk", "founding_year": "2002", "launchers": "Falcon | Starship", "spacecraft": "Dragon", "launch_library_url": null, "total_launch_count": 660, "consecutive_successful_launches": 145, "successful_launches": 645, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 122, "consecutive_successful_landings": 144, "successful_landings": 605, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 631, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 235, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/235/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Orbital Launch Pad 2", "description": "The second launch and landing pad of the full version of the combined SpaceX Starship and Superheavy booster. To be first used for launch in 2025 with version 3 of Starship and the Superheavy booster.\r\n\r\nThe launch mount itself is named Orbital Launch Mount B.", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starbase#Launch_site_(Orbital_Launch_Mount_(Pad_1_and_2))", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=25.996603,-97.158251", "latitude": "25.996603", "longitude": "-97.158251", "location": { "id": 143, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/location/143/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA", "country_code": "USA", "description": "Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village, and a small structure test site along the Texas State Highway 4.", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/Chicago", "total_launch_count": 20, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_orbital_launch_mount_b_20241126031254.jpg", "total_launch_count": 0, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 0 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_on_the_image_20250111100520.jpg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 1, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/program/1/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX Starship", "description": "The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.", "agencies": [ { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_on_the_image_20250111100520.jpg", "start_date": "2019-03-01T05:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 7, "name": "Technology" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 21, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 669, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": null, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 50, "pad_turnaround": "P0D", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 773, "name": "Starship IFT patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/mission_patch_images/starship2520if_mission_patch_20230414221655.png", "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" } } ], "type": "detailed" }
