Spaceflight News

Launch Library 2 API

Sister API by The Space Devs, used by SNAPI to relate news articles to specific launches and events. Provides upcoming/previous launch data, events, agencies, astronauts, expeditions, spacecraft, launchers, and pads. SNAPI articles, blogs, and reports can be filtered by `launch` (UUID) or `event` (LL2 ID).

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/swagger/

Other Resources

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Tutorial
Launch Library 2 Tutorial
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Tools
Launch Library MCP Server
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: Launch Library 2 API
description: Sister API by The Space Devs, used by SNAPI to relate news articles to specific launches
  and events. Provides upcoming/previous launch data, events, agencies, astronauts, expeditions, spacecraft,
  launchers, and pads. SNAPI articles, blogs, and reports can be filtered by `launch` (UUID) or `event`
  (LL2 ID).
humanURL: https://thespacedevs.com/llapi
baseURL: https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0
tags:
- Space
- Launches
- Event
tags_raw:
- Space
- Launches
- Events
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/swagger/
- type: Tutorial
  title: Launch Library 2 Tutorial
  url: https://github.com/TheSpaceDevs/Tutorials
- type: Tools
  title: Launch Library MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/TheSpaceDevs/launch-library-mcp