Landing Type List
Number of results
Use limit
to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)
Example - /config/landing_types/?limit=2
Format
Switch to JSON output - /config/landing_types/?format=json
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GET /2.3.0/config/landing_types/?format=api
{
"count": 10,
"next": null,
"previous": null,
"results": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship",
"abbrev": "ASDS",
"description": "An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory."
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "Ocean",
"abbrev": "Ocean",
"description": "No recovery attempt"
},
{
"id": 6,
"name": "Horizontal Landing",
"abbrev": "HL",
"description": "Horizontal landing on a runway or flat surface."
},
{
"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."
},
{
"id": 8,
"name": "Expended",
"abbrev": "EXP",
"description": "Vehicle did not perform any landing operations after launch"
},
{
"id": 7,
"name": "Destructive Reentry",
"abbrev": "ATM",
"description": "Spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere"
},
{
"id": 9,
"name": "Vertical Landing",
"abbrev": "VL",
"description": "Vertical landing using engines"
},
{
"id": 5,
"name": "Helicopter Catch",
"abbrev": "HC",
"description": "The first stage is caught by a helicopter while slowly descending towards the sea under a parachute."
},
{
"id": 4,
"name": "Parachute Landing",
"abbrev": "PCL",
"description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)."
},
{
"id": 10,
"name": "Parafoil Landing",
"abbrev": "PFL",
"description": "Unpowered landing using parafoil(s)."
}
]
}