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/fc1dafd8-bcb0-4e77-8ba9-2d03134f04e4/?format=api
{ "id": "fc1dafd8-bcb0-4e77-8ba9-2d03134f04e4", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/fc1dafd8-bcb0-4e77-8ba9-2d03134f04e4/?format=api", "slug": "starship-flight-10", "flightclub_url": null, "r_spacex_api_id": null, "name": "Starship | Flight 10", "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": "2025-06-19T04:42:56Z", "updates": [ { "id": 11314, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/lucas2520stauder_profile_20230526163835.jpg", "comment": "Launch delayed due to explosion of the assigned Starship", "info_url": "https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1935548909805601020?t=48GsTawVcG8vjJ5_R8J6Kw&s=19", "created_by": "hitura-nobad", "created_on": "2025-06-19T04:42:00Z" }, { "id": 11305, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch.", "info_url": "https://x.com/BCCarCounters/status/1935366760846217240", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-06-18T17:37:00Z" } ], "net": "2025-12-31T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 14, "name": "Year", "abbrev": "Y", "description": "The T-0 is expected in the given year." }, "window_end": "2025-12-31T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2025-12-31T00:00:00Z", "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": 527, "consecutive_successful_launches": 12, "successful_launches": 512, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 121, "consecutive_successful_landings": 12, "successful_landings": 473, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 499, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_nation_20230531064544.jpg" }, "rocket": { "id": 8644, "configuration": { "id": 464, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/464/?format=api", "name": "Starship", "active": true, "reusable": true, "description": "Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.", "family": "Starship", "full_name": "Starship", "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": 527, "consecutive_successful_launches": 12, "successful_launches": 512, "failed_launches": 15, "pending_launches": 121, "consecutive_successful_landings": 12, "successful_landings": 473, "failed_landings": 27, "attempted_landings": 499, "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "logo_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_logo_20220826094919.png", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_image_20190207032501.jpeg", "nation_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.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-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex2520star_program_20201129204513.png", "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": "", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 2, "length": 120.0, "diameter": 9.0, "maiden_flight": "2023-04-20", "launch_cost": null, "launch_mass": 5000, "leo_capacity": 100000, "gto_capacity": 21000, "to_thrust": 72000, "apogee": null, "vehicle_range": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/starship_liftof_image_20240314160301.jpg", "info_url": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "total_launch_count": 9, "consecutive_successful_launches": 0, "successful_launches": 4, "failed_launches": 5, "pending_launches": 3, "attempted_landings": 8, "successful_landings": 4, "failed_landings": 4, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0 }, "launcher_stage": [ { "id": 760, "type": "Core", "reused": false, "launcher_flight_number": 1, "launcher": { "id": 198, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launcher/198/?format=api", "details": "Super Heavy booster to be used for the 10th Starship flight test.", "flight_proven": false, "serial_number": "Booster 16", "status": "active", "image_url": null, "successful_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "flights": 0, "last_launch_date": null, "first_launch_date": null }, "landing": { "id": 1643, "attempt": true, "success": null, "description": "The Superheavy Booster 16 will attempt to return to the launch site and be caught by the launch pad tower.", "downrange_distance": 0.0, "location": { "id": 39, "name": "Orbital Launch Mount A", "abbrev": "OLM-A", "description": "", "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-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/Chicago", "total_launch_count": 18, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "successful_landings": 3 }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Return to Launch Site", "abbrev": "RTLS", "description": "A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from." } }, "previous_flight_date": null, "turn_around_time_days": null, "previous_flight": null } ], "spacecraft_stage": null }, "mission": { "id": 7236, "name": "Flight 10", "description": "10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Test Flight", "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub" }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 188, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/pad/188/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Orbital Launch Mount A", "description": "The first launch and landing pad of the full version of the combined SpaceX Starship and Superheavy booster. First used for launch in April 2023.", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starbase#Launch_site_(Orbital_Launch_Pad_A_and_B)", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=25.9962,-97.154423", "latitude": "25.9962", "longitude": "-97.154423", "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-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_143_20200803142438.jpg", "timezone_name": "America/Chicago", "total_launch_count": 18, "total_landing_count": 13 }, "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_orbital_launch_mount_a_20210514061342.jpg", "total_launch_count": 9, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 0 }, "infoURLs": [], "vidURLs": [], "webcast_live": false, "timeline": [], "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.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-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex2520star_program_20201129204513.png", "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": 19, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 10, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 574, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 125, "pad_turnaround": "P217DT24M", "mission_patches": [ { "id": 773, "name": "Starship IFT patch", "priority": 10, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.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" }
