Spacecraft Instance
Modes
Levels of detail in the response - normal, detailed
Example - /spacecraft/?mode=detailed
Filters
Parameters - in_space, is_placeholder, name, spacecraft_config, status
Example - /spacecraft/?is_placeholder=True
Search
Fields searched - name, spacecraft_config__name
Example - /spacecraft/?search=Endeavour
Ordering
Fields - flights_count, id, mission_ends_count, time_docked, time_in_space
Example - /spacecraft/?ordering=-flights_count
Number of results
Use limit to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)
Example - /spacecraft/?limit=2
Format
Switch to JSON output - /spacecraft/?format=json
Help
Find all the FAQs and support links on the documentation homepage - lldev.thespacedevs.com/docs
GET /2.3.0/spacecraft/473/?format=api
{ "response_mode": "detailed", "id": 473, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/473/?format=api", "name": "VSS Unity", "serial_number": "N202VG", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 2149, "name": "SpaceShipTwo Unity at rollout event", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_un_image_20240812142943.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_un_image_thumbnail_20240812142943.jpeg", "credit": "Ronrosano", "license": { "id": 21, "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "priority": 4, "link": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT4H3M43S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 30, "mission_ends_count": 30, "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "description": "VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "detailed", "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/27/?format=api", "name": "SpaceShipTwo", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Spaceplane" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1024, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "abbrev": "VG", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "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" } ], "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": 2004, "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "parent": null, "image": { "id": 32, "name": "[AUTO] Virgin Galactic - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184711.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "logo": { "id": 196, "name": "[AUTO] Virgin Galactic - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_logo_20230509082346.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185159.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 101, "name": "[AUTO] Virgin Galactic - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_nation_20230617045127.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184858.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "family": [], "in_use": true, "image": { "id": 1933, "name": "[AUTO] SpaceShipTwo - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_image_20210522133744.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194156.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "capability": "SpaceShipTwo is carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glides back to Earth and performs a conventional runway landing.", "history": "The spaceship was officially unveiled to the public on 7 December 2009 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. On 29 April 2013, after nearly three years of unpowered testing, the first one constructed successfully performed its first powered test flight.", "details": "The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.", "maiden_flight": "2010-10-10", "height": 18.0, "diameter": 8.2, "human_rated": true, "crew_capacity": 8, "payload_capacity": null, "payload_return_capacity": null, "flight_life": "Short suborbital flights", "wiki_link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo", "info_link": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/", "spacecraft_flown": 2, "total_launch_count": 67, "successful_launches": 62, "failed_launches": 5, "attempted_landings": 66, "successful_landings": 66, "failed_landings": 0, "fastest_turnaround": "P1D" }, "fastest_turnaround": "P2D", "flights": [ { "id": 823, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/823/?format=api", "destination": "Suborbital", "mission_end": "2024-06-08T15:41:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 473, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/473/?format=api", "name": "VSS Unity", "serial_number": "N202VG", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 2149, "name": "SpaceShipTwo Unity at rollout event", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_un_image_20240812142943.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_un_image_thumbnail_20240812142943.jpeg", "credit": "Ronrosano", "license": { "id": 21, "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "priority": 4, "link": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT4H3M43S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 30, "mission_ends_count": 30, "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "description": "VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/27/?format=api", "name": "SpaceShipTwo", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Spaceplane" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1024, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "abbrev": "VG", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" } }, "family": [], "in_use": true, "image": { "id": 1933, "name": "[AUTO] SpaceShipTwo - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_image_20210522133744.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194156.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": "P2D" }, "launch": { "id": "c4a4f111-dd24-491a-bc44-8bcaf2e08351", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/c4a4f111-dd24-491a-bc44-8bcaf2e08351/?format=api", "name": "SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 07", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "spaceshiptwo-galactic-07", "launch_designator": null, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-06-08T16:36:26Z", "net": "2024-06-08T15:26:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2024-06-08T22:00:00Z", "window_start": "2024-06-08T13:30:00Z", "image": { "id": 1839, "name": "[AUTO] SpaceShipTwo - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceshiptwo_image_20210522140909.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193914.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": "list", "id": 1024, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "abbrev": "VG", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" } }, "rocket": { "id": 8092, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 465, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/465/?format=api", "name": "SpaceShipTwo", "families": [], "full_name": "SpaceShipTwo", "variant": "" } }, "mission": { "id": 6646, "name": "Galactic 07", "type": "Tourism", "description": "Seventh commercial Virgin Galactic mission.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1024, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "abbrev": "VG", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "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" } ], "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": 2004, "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "parent": null, "image": { "id": 32, "name": "[AUTO] Virgin Galactic - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184711.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "logo": { "id": 196, "name": "[AUTO] Virgin Galactic - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_logo_20230509082346.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185159.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 101, "name": "[AUTO] Virgin Galactic - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin2520galactic_nation_20230617045127.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184858.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "total_launch_count": 67, "consecutive_successful_launches": 11, "successful_launches": 62, "failed_launches": 5, "pending_launches": 0, "consecutive_successful_landings": 0, "successful_landings": 0, "failed_landings": 0, "attempted_landings": 0, "successful_landings_spacecraft": 66, "failed_landings_spacecraft": 0, "attempted_landings_spacecraft": 66, "successful_landings_payload": 0, "failed_landings_payload": 0, "attempted_landings_payload": 0, "info_url": "https://www.virgingalactic.com/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic", "social_media_links": [] } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 191, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/191/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1024, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1024/?format=api", "name": "Virgin Galactic", "abbrev": "VG", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "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" } ], "description": "Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. 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image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184711.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_144_20200803142439.jpg", "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "timezone_name": "", "total_launch_count": 86, "total_landing_count": 0 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 86, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 14, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 67, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2 }, "landing": { "id": 1274, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/1274/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "VSS Unity has landed back at Spaceport America after this flight.", "downrange_distance": 0.0, "landing_location": { "id": 13, "name": "Spaceport America", "active": true, "abbrev": "SA", "description": "FAA-licensed spaceport in New Mexico.", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 31, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/31/?format=api", "name": "Spaceport America, NM, USA", "active": 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": "Spaceport America is an FAA-licensed spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and southeast of Truth or Consequences. With Virgin Galactic's launch of the VSS Unity, with three people aboard, on May 22, 2021, New Mexico became the third US state to launch humans into space after California and Florida.", "image": { "id": 2217, "name": "Spaceport America", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceport_ameri_image_20240919165536.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceport_ameri_image_thumbnail_20240919165536.jpeg", "credit": "Land Rover MENA", "license": { "id": 28, "name": "CC BY 2.0", "priority": 6, "link": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_31_20200803142505.jpg", "longitude": -106.969722, "latitude": 32.990278, "timezone_name": "America/Denver", "total_launch_count": 4, "total_landing_count": 4 }, "longitude": -106.969722, "latitude": 32.990278, "image": { "id": 2217, "name": "Spaceport America", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceport_ameri_image_20240919165536.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spaceport_ameri_image_thumbnail_20240919165536.jpeg", "credit": "Land Rover MENA", "license": { "id": 28, "name": "CC BY 2.0", "priority": 6, "link": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 17, "attempted_landings": 18, "failed_landings": 1, "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" } }, "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Horizontal Landing", "abbrev": "HL", "description": "Horizontal landing on a runway or flat surface." } }, "duration": "PT15M", "turn_around_time": "P133DT21H30M", "response_mode": "normal" } ] }
