Launch Instance
Modes
Levels of detail in the response - list, normal, detailed
Example - /launches/?mode=list
Filters
Parameters - agency_launch_attempt_count, agency_launch_attempt_count__gt, agency_launch_attempt_count__gte, agency_launch_attempt_count__lt, agency_launch_attempt_count__lte, agency_launch_attempt_count_year, agency_launch_attempt_count_year__gt, agency_launch_attempt_count_year__gte, agency_launch_attempt_count_year__lt, agency_launch_attempt_count_year__lte, day, id, include_suborbital, is_crewed, last_updated__gte, last_updated__lte, launch_designator, launcher_config__id, location__ids, location_launch_attempt_count, location_launch_attempt_count__gt, location_launch_attempt_count__gte, location_launch_attempt_count__lt, location_launch_attempt_count__lte, location_launch_attempt_count_year, location_launch_attempt_count_year__gt, location_launch_attempt_count_year__gte, location_launch_attempt_count_year__lt, location_launch_attempt_count_year__lte, lsp__id, lsp__name, mission__orbit__celestial_body__id, mission__orbit__name, mission__orbit__name__icontains, month, name, net__gt, net__gte, net__lt, net__lte, orbital_launch_attempt_count, orbital_launch_attempt_count__gt, orbital_launch_attempt_count__gte, orbital_launch_attempt_count__lt, orbital_launch_attempt_count__lte, orbital_launch_attempt_count_year, orbital_launch_attempt_count_year__gt, orbital_launch_attempt_count_year__gte, orbital_launch_attempt_count_year__lt, orbital_launch_attempt_count_year__lte, pad, pad__location, pad__location__celestial_body__id, pad_launch_attempt_count, pad_launch_attempt_count__gt, pad_launch_attempt_count__gte, pad_launch_attempt_count__lt, pad_launch_attempt_count__lte, pad_launch_attempt_count_year, pad_launch_attempt_count_year__gt, pad_launch_attempt_count_year__gte, pad_launch_attempt_count_year__lt, pad_launch_attempt_count_year__lte, program, related_lsp__id, related_lsp__name, rocket__configuration__full_name, rocket__configuration__full_name__icontains, rocket__configuration__id, rocket__configuration__manufacturer__name, rocket__configuration__manufacturer__name__icontains, rocket__configuration__name, rocket__spacecraftflight__spacecraft__id, rocket__spacecraftflight__spacecraft__name, rocket__spacecraftflight__spacecraft__name__icontains, serial_number, slug, spacecraft_config__ids, status, status__ids, video_url, window_end__gt, window_end__gte, window_end__lt, window_end__lte, window_start__gt, window_start__gte, window_start__lt, window_start__lte, year
Example - /launches/?pad__location=13
Search
Fields searched - launch_designator, launch_service_provider__name, mission__name, name, pad__location__name, pad__name, rocket__configuration__manufacturer__abbrev, rocket__configuration__manufacturer__name, rocket__configuration__name, rocket__spacecraftflight__spacecraft__name
Example - /launches/?search=Starlink
Ordering
Fields - id, last_updated, name, net
Example - /launches/?ordering=-last_updated
Number of results
Use limit to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)
Example - /launches/?limit=2
Format
Switch to JSON output - /launches/?format=json
Help
Find all the FAQs and support links on the documentation homepage - lldev.thespacedevs.com/docs
GET /2.3.0/launches/fc69c107-b0ad-47e9-8973-9de75a7c6b6d/?format=api
{ "id": "fc69c107-b0ad-47e9-8973-9de75a7c6b6d", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/fc69c107-b0ad-47e9-8973-9de75a7c6b6d/?format=api", "name": "Electron | iQPS Launch 4", "response_mode": "detailed", "slug": "electron-iqps-launch-4", "launch_designator": null, "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": "2025-02-27T23:28:44Z", "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", "image": { "id": 1727, "name": "[AUTO] Electron - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/electron_image_20190705175640.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193613.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 147, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "abbrev": "RL", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Commercial" }, "featured": true, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.", "administrator": "CEO: Peter Beck", "founding_year": 2006, "launchers": "Electron", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": { "id": 24, "name": "[AUTO] Rocket Lab - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_image_20190207032456.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184649.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "logo": { "id": 176, "name": "[AUTO] Rocket Lab - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_logo_20220218075411.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185115.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 88, "name": "[AUTO] Rocket Lab - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket2520lab2520ltd_nation_20230531050352.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184840.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "total_launch_count": 63, "consecutive_successful_launches": 22, "successful_launches": 59, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 33, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings_spacecraft": 0, "failed_landings_spacecraft": 0, "attempted_landings_spacecraft": 0, "successful_landings_payload": 0, "failed_landings_payload": 0, "attempted_landings_payload": 0, "info_url": "http://www.rocketlabusa.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab", "social_media_links": [] }, "rocket": { "id": 8521, "configuration": { "response_mode": "detailed", "id": 26, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/26/?format=api", "name": "Electron", "families": [], "full_name": "Electron", "variant": "", "active": true, "is_placeholder": false, "manufacturer": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 147, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/147/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab", "abbrev": "RL", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Commercial" }, "featured": true, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. 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Electron is a small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch small satellites and cubesats to sun-synchronous orbit and low earth orbit. The Electron is the first orbital class rocket to use electric-pump-fed engines, powered by the 9 Rutherford engines on the first stage. It is also used as a suborbital testbed (called HASTE) for hypersonics research.", "alias": "", "min_stage": 2, "max_stage": 3, "length": 18.0, "diameter": 1.2, "maiden_flight": "2017-05-25", "launch_cost": 6000000, "launch_mass": 13.0, "leo_capacity": 300.0, "gto_capacity": null, "geo_capacity": null, "sso_capacity": 225.0, "to_thrust": 162.0, "apogee": null, "total_launch_count": 63, "consecutive_successful_launches": 22, "successful_launches": 59, "failed_launches": 4, "pending_launches": 31, "attempted_landings": 9, "successful_landings": 7, "failed_landings": 2, "consecutive_successful_landings": 4, "fastest_turnaround": "PT21H55M" }, "launcher_stage": [], "spacecraft_stage": [], "payloads": [] }, "mission": { "id": 7111, "name": "iQPS Launch 4", "type": "Earth Science", "description": "Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 210, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/210/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [], "name": "Unknown Pad", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": null, "map_url": null, "latitude": -39.260881, "longitude": 177.865826, "country": { "id": 51, "name": "New Zealand", "alpha_2_code": "NZ", "alpha_3_code": "NZL", "nationality_name": "Kiwi", "nationality_name_composed": "Kiwi" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_210_20230819165718.jpg", "total_launch_count": 0, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 0, "fastest_turnaround": null, "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 10, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/10/?format=api", "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7129, "successful_launches": 6587, "failed_launches": 542, "total_attempted_landings": 1089, "successful_landings": 1046, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 51, "name": "New Zealand", "alpha_2_code": "NZ", "alpha_3_code": "NZL", "nationality_name": "Kiwi", "nationality_name_composed": "Kiwi" }, "description": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron rocket for small satellites. With the launch of Electron on 25 May 2017, it became the first private spaceport to host an orbital launch attempt, and the first site in New Zealand to host an orbital launch attempt. With the Electron launch of 21 January 2018, it became the first private spaceport to host a successful orbital launch.", "image": { "id": 2206, "name": "Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket_lab_laun_image_20240918164228.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rocket_lab_laun_image_thumbnail_20240918164228.jpeg", "credit": "Rocket Lab", "license": { "id": 7, "name": "Rocket Lab Image Use Policy", "priority": 3, "link": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about/gallery/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_10_20200803142509.jpg", "longitude": 177.86586, "latitude": -39.26085, "timezone_name": "Pacific/Auckland", "total_launch_count": 57, "total_landing_count": 17 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7100, "location_launch_attempt_count": 72, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 15, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 86, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 251, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 20, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 15, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 28, "flightclub_url": null, "updates": [ { "id": 10019, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Added launch.", "info_url": "https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-signs-multi-launch-contract-with-iqps-for-four-electron-missions/", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-02-05T01:25:00Z" }, { "id": 10226, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/profile_images/cosmic2520penguin_profile_20210817212020.png", "comment": "Moved up to 2025.", "info_url": "https://investors.rocketlabusa.com/news/news-details/2025/Rocket-Lab-Signs-Second-Multi-Launch-Deal-Secures-Eight-Electron-Missions-with-iQPS/default.aspx", "created_by": "Cosmic_Penguin", "created_on": "2025-02-27T23:28:00Z" } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [], "timeline": [], "pad_turnaround": "P61D", "mission_patches": [] }
