SpaceX Missions Scraper

Extract complete SpaceX launch mission data from the public r-spacex API — including every Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch since 2006. Each output record is a single mission enriched with rocket details, launchpad info, payload counts, crew counts, and core landing outcomes — making it easy to build dashboards, train ML models, or feed RAG pipelines about commercial spaceflight.

This Actor joins three upstream endpoints (launches, rockets, launchpads) into a single denormalized table so you don't have to. Filtering happens server-side in the Actor, so you can pull just one year, one rocket family, or just upcoming missions without post-processing.

Features

• Joined dataset — Each mission record includes rocket name/type/company and launchpad name/locality/region, denormalized for direct use.
• Year-range filter — Pull just 2023, just the Falcon Heavy era, or the complete back-catalog.
• Success / upcoming filters — Isolate failed missions, successful flights, or future-scheduled launches.
• Rocket family filter — Case-insensitive partial match on rocket name (e.g. Falcon 9 matches all Falcon 9 variants).
• Core landing analytics — Per-mission counts of cores used, landed, and reused.
• Webcast & patch links — YouTube webcast URL, Wikipedia article, and mission patch image included.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
flightNumber	int	Sequential SpaceX flight number
name	string	Mission name (e.g. "Crew-9")
dateUtc	datetime	Launch date (UTC)
success	bool	Whether the launch succeeded
upcoming	bool	Whether the mission is in the future
rocketName	string	Rocket family name (Falcon 9 / Falcon Heavy / Starship)
rocketType	string	Rocket type/variant
launchpadName	string	Launchpad short name
launchpadFullName	string	Full launchpad designation
launchpadRegion	string	Region (e.g. Florida, California)
payloadCount	int	Number of payloads on this flight
crewCount	int	Number of crew members
coresUsed	int	Number of booster cores used
coresLanded	int	Number of cores that successfully landed
coresReused	int	Number of cores that were reused (flown before)
failures	array	Failure reason + time (empty for successes)
webcast	string	YouTube webcast URL
wikipedia	string	Wikipedia article URL
patchLarge	string	Mission patch image URL

How to scrape SpaceX launch data

1. Click Run with empty input to pull every SpaceX mission ever flown (200+ records).
2. Set yearFrom: 2023, yearTo: 2024 to pull only recent missions.
3. Set successOnly: true to exclude failed launches and aborts.
4. Set upcomingOnly: true to get only future-scheduled launches.
5. Set rocketNameFilter: "Starship" to scrape only Starship-related missions.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.003/result. A full back-catalog scrape (~200 missions) costs ~$0.60. Apify compute is charged separately at platform rates.

Use cases

• Build a SpaceX mission tracker dashboard or alerting system
• Train ML models on historical launch cadence, success rate by rocket family, etc.
• Power a Discord/Slack bot that announces upcoming launches with webcast links
• Backfill an analytics database for commercial-spaceflight research

FAQ

Is this real-time? Mission data is sourced from the volunteer-maintained r-spacex public API which mirrors official SpaceX data and is updated within hours of new mission announcements.

Do I need an API key? No.

Does it include the next launch? Yes — use upcomingOnly: true.

Legal

This Actor consumes the publicly accessible r-spacex SpaceX API which aggregates publicly available SpaceX mission information. No authentication is bypassed. Data is intended for personal, educational, research, or commercial uses that respect the upstream provider's terms. Contact support via the Apify Console with any issues.