Modes

Levels of detail in the response - list, normal, detailed

Example - /agencies/?mode=list

Filters

Parameters - abbrev, abbrev__contains, attempted_landings, attempted_landings__gt, attempted_landings__gte, attempted_landings__lt, attempted_landings__lte, consecutive_successful_landings, consecutive_successful_landings__gt, consecutive_successful_landings__gte, consecutive_successful_landings__lt, consecutive_successful_landings__lte, consecutive_successful_launches, consecutive_successful_launches__gt, consecutive_successful_launches__gte, consecutive_successful_launches__lt, consecutive_successful_launches__lte, country_code, description, description__contains, failed_landings, failed_landings__gt, failed_landings__gte, failed_landings__lt, failed_landings__lte, failed_launches, failed_launches__gt, failed_launches__gte, failed_launches__lt, failed_launches__lte, featured, founding_year, founding_year__gt, founding_year__gte, founding_year__lt, founding_year__lte, id, name, name__contains, parent__id, pending_launches, pending_launches__gt, pending_launches__gte, pending_launches__lt, pending_launches__lte, spacecraft, successful_landings, successful_landings__gt, successful_landings__gte, successful_landings__lt, successful_landings__lte, successful_launches, successful_launches__gt, successful_launches__gte, successful_launches__lt, successful_launches__lte, total_launch_count, total_launch_count__gt, total_launch_count__gte, total_launch_count__lt, total_launch_count__lte, type__id

Example - /agencies/?abbrev=NASA

Fields searched - abbrev, name

Example - /agencies/?search=SpaceX

Ordering

Fields - attempted_landings, consecutive_successful_landings, consecutive_successful_launches, failed_landings, failed_launches, featured, id, name, pending_launches, successful_landings, successful_launches, total_launch_count

Example - /agencies/?ordering=-total_launch_count

Number of results

Use limit to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)

Example - /agencies/?limit=2

Format

Switch to JSON output - /agencies/?format=json

Help

Find all the FAQs and support links on the documentation homepage - lldev.thespacedevs.com/docs

GET /2.3.0/agencies/?format=api&offset=270&ordering=successful_launches
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

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    "count": 349,
    "next": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/?format=api&limit=10&offset=280&ordering=successful_launches",
    "previous": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/?format=api&limit=10&offset=260&ordering=successful_launches",
    "results": [
        {
            "response_mode": "normal",
            "id": 1066,
            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1066/?format=api",
            "name": "HyImpulse",
            "abbrev": "HYI",
            "type": {
                "id": 5,
                "name": "Private"
            },
            "featured": false,
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                    "name": "Germany",
                    "alpha_2_code": "DE",
                    "alpha_3_code": "DEU",
                    "nationality_name": "German",
                    "nationality_name_composed": "Germano"
                }
            ],
            "description": "HyImpulse is a German private space launch enterprise headquartered in Neuenstadt am Kocher and developing a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid-propellant rockets. The company is a DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility.",
            "administrator": "CEO: Mario Kobald",
            "founding_year": 2018,
            "launchers": "SR75 | SL1",
            "spacecraft": "",
            "parent": null,
            "image": null,
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                "name": "[AUTO] HyImpulse - logo",
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                    "id": 1,
                    "name": "Unknown",
                    "priority": 9,
                    "link": null
                },
                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
            },
            "social_logo": {
                "id": 62,
                "name": "[AUTO] HyImpulse - social_logo",
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                "license": {
                    "id": 1,
                    "name": "Unknown",
                    "priority": 9,
                    "link": null
                },
                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
            }
        },
        {
            "response_mode": "normal",
            "id": 1005,
            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1005/?format=api",
            "name": "Royal Aircraft Establishment",
            "abbrev": "",
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                "id": 1,
                "name": "Government"
            },
            "featured": false,
            "country": [
                {
                    "id": 10,
                    "name": "United Kingdom",
                    "alpha_2_code": "GB",
                    "alpha_3_code": "GBR",
                    "nationality_name": "British",
                    "nationality_name_composed": "Brito"
                }
            ],
            "description": "The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.",
            "administrator": null,
            "founding_year": 1904,
            "launchers": "",
            "spacecraft": "",
            "parent": null,
            "image": null,
            "logo": null,
            "social_logo": null
        },
        {
            "response_mode": "normal",
            "id": 1079,
            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1079/?format=api",
            "name": "Agency for Defense Development",
            "abbrev": "ADD",
            "type": {
                "id": 1,
                "name": "Government"
            },
            "featured": false,
            "country": [
                {
                    "id": 35,
                    "name": "South Korea",
                    "alpha_2_code": "KR",
                    "alpha_3_code": "KOR",
                    "nationality_name": "South Korean",
                    "nationality_name_composed": "South Korean"
                }
            ],
            "description": "The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) is the South Korean national agency for research and development in defense technology, funded by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). Its purpose is contributing to enforcing the national defence, to improving the national R&D capacity, and to fostering the domestic defense industry.",
            "administrator": null,
            "founding_year": 1970,
            "launchers": "South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV",
            "spacecraft": "",
            "parent": null,
            "image": null,
            "logo": {
                "id": 105,
                "name": "[AUTO] Agency for Defense Development - logo",
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                    "id": 1,
                    "name": "Unknown",
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                    "link": null
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
            }
        },
        {
            "response_mode": "normal",
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            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/80/?format=api",
            "name": "Boeing",
            "abbrev": "BA",
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                "id": 3,
                "name": "Commercial"
            },
            "featured": false,
            "country": [
                {
                    "id": 2,
                    "name": "United States of America",
                    "alpha_2_code": "US",
                    "alpha_3_code": "USA",
                    "nationality_name": "American",
                    "nationality_name_composed": "Americano"
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            ],
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            "administrator": "CEO: Kelly Ortberg",
            "founding_year": 1916,
            "launchers": "SLS",
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            "parent": null,
            "image": null,
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                "id": 117,
                "name": "[AUTO] Boeing - logo",
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                    "link": null
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
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            "social_logo": {
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                "name": "[AUTO] Boeing - social_logo",
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                "license": {
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                    "name": "Unknown",
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                    "link": null
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
            }
        },
        {
            "response_mode": "normal",
            "id": 187,
            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/187/?format=api",
            "name": "GK Launch Services",
            "abbrev": "GKLS",
            "type": {
                "id": 3,
                "name": "Commercial"
            },
            "featured": false,
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                {
                    "id": 5,
                    "name": "Russia",
                    "alpha_2_code": "RU",
                    "alpha_3_code": "RUS",
                    "nationality_name": "Russian",
                    "nationality_name_composed": "Russo"
                }
            ],
            "description": "GK Launch Services is a company established by Glavkosmos (a subsidiary of Roscosmos State Space Corporation) and International Space Company Kosmotras. GK Launch Services is an operator of Soyuz-2 commercial launches from the Russian spaceports.",
            "administrator": "CEO: Alexander V. Serkin",
            "founding_year": 2017,
            "launchers": "",
            "spacecraft": "",
            "parent": null,
            "image": {
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                "name": "[AUTO] GK Launch Services - image",
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                "license": {
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                    "name": "Unknown",
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                    "link": null
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
            },
            "social_logo": null
        },
        {
            "response_mode": "normal",
            "id": 1049,
            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1049/?format=api",
            "name": "Space Pioneer",
            "abbrev": "SP",
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                "id": 3,
                "name": "Commercial"
            },
            "featured": false,
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                    "nationality_name_composed": "Sino"
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            ],
            "description": "Space Pioneer is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing. It was founded in 2015 by Kang Yonglai.",
            "administrator": "CEO: Kang Yonglai",
            "founding_year": 2015,
            "launchers": "Tianlong",
            "spacecraft": "",
            "parent": null,
            "image": null,
            "logo": {
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                "name": "Space Pioneer Logo",
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                "credit": "Space Pioneer",
                "license": {
                    "id": 1,
                    "name": "Unknown",
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                    "link": null
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
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                "credit": "Space Pioneer",
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                    "name": "Unknown",
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                    "link": null
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
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        },
        {
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            "id": 1098,
            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1098/?format=api",
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            "abbrev": "IS",
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                "name": "Private"
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        },
        {
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            "abbrev": "DLR",
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                "name": "Government"
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                "single_use": true,
                "variants": []
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        },
        {
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            "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1013/?format=api",
            "name": "Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau",
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            "description": "The JSC Makeyev Design Bureau is a Russian missile design company located in Miass, Russia.\r\n\r\nEstablished in December 1947 as SKB-385, the company is the main designer of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) in Russia. The organization was named in honor of Victor Makeyev. Its full official name is State Rocket Center «Academician V.P. Makeev Design Bureau».\r\n\r\nIn 1965, SKB-385 was redesignated the Design Bureau of Machine-Building (KBM) under the Ministry of General Machine-Building.",
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            "founding_year": 1947,
            "launchers": "",
            "spacecraft": "",
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