ABOUT SPACE LAUNCH LIVE

AI-powered real-time dashboard for every rocket launch around the world.

ABOUT SPACE LAUNCH LIVE

Space Launch Live is an AI-powered launch tracking platform that aggregates data from multiple space industry sources and uses artificial intelligence to analyze, summarize, and deliver the most complete picture of every rocket launch — past, present, and future.

Whether you’re a space enthusiast trying to catch a launch from your backyard, a journalist covering the industry, or simply curious about what’s going up next, this site gives you everything you need in one place.

🌌 LIVE 3D SOLAR SYSTEM — FREE

Our 3D Solar System Tracker is a real-time, web-native orrery powered by authoritative NASA, JPL, and NOAA data. Fly through the solar system, scrub 1900–2125, click any body to dive in:

  • 8 planets + 20 moons + 10 dwarf planets with HD NASA/USGS textures (8K where available)
  • 32 deep-space probes — 16 real NASA 3D models (Juno, Voyager, JWST, Perseverance…) + DALL·E sprites for the rest
  • 46 satellite constellations with real SGP4 physics propagation (Starlink, GPS, ISS, Hubble)
  • Live Earth clouds pulled from NASA GIBS satellite imagery, refreshed daily
  • Real-time space weather — aurora forecast (NOAA SWPC), active hurricanes (NOAA NHC), wildfire hotspots (NASA FIRMS), aerosol layer (NASA MODIS)
  • Authoritative JPL Horizons ephemerides for every probe, synced daily; orbital elements for all 71 celestial bodies
  • Asteroid belt + Kuiper belt with 5,600 particles, plus 4 named comets

🎮 MISSION CONTROL ROOM — PRO

Experience launches like never before. Our AI-powered Mission Control Room transforms your screen into an immersive command center during live launches:

  • Multi-Stream Split View — Watch multiple camera angles simultaneously
  • Live Telemetry — Real-time altitude, velocity, and G-force tracking
  • Mission Milestones — AI Vision Engine watches the video feed and auto-detects liftoff, MaxQ, MECO, stage sep, landing
  • Community Watch Party — Live chat, emoji reactions, and shared viewing
  • AI-Powered Updates — Claude monitors multiple sources for live status changes

Available to Pro members during live launch windows. Free members get one complimentary session.

FEATURES

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Live Countdowns

Real-time T-minus countdowns for every upcoming launch, clock-synced to server time, updating every second.

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Launch Map

Interactive maps showing pad location, estimated trajectory, distance from you, and visibility range circles.

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Pad Weather

Current weather conditions at the launch site — temperature, wind, cloud cover, and visibility.

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Visibility Scoring

Can you see the launch from where you are? Our 5-star scoring system factors in distance, direction, and weather.

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Vehicle History

For reusable rockets like Falcon 9, see the booster’s full flight history, landing record, and turnaround time.

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Launch Videos

Embedded webcasts for upcoming launches and replay videos for past launches from multiple sources.

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Launch Timeline

A chronological timeline of news and status updates for each launch, from announcement to completion.

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Watchlist

Star any launch to pin it to your watchlist with live countdowns in a header popover. Saved locally — survives reloads.

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On This Day

Every page surfaces the historic launches and spaceflight milestones that happened on today’s date — auto-generated from our space history archive.

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Sky Tonight

Live ISS pass predictions for your location, plus visible planets and meteor shower alerts for the night ahead.

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Records Ticker

A live ticker of all-time spaceflight records — deepest probe, fastest object, tallest rocket, longest ISS stay — pulling real distance updates for the Voyagers.

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Celestial Body Library

71 planets, moons, dwarfs, asteroids, comets, KBOs, and interstellar objects — each with JPL-sourced orbital data and reverse-linked missions.

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Lander & Rover 3D Views

Toggle between 2D map and cinematic 3D on the landers and rovers archives — click a marker to drop a NASA-built 3D model onto the surface of Mars, the Moon, or Titan.

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iOS & Android App

The full experience in your pocket — live countdowns, push notifications, launch alerts, and offline calendar sync. Built on Expo for native performance.

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10 Premium Themes

From Nebula purples to Rocket Red retro NASA aesthetics — switch the entire site’s visual identity in one click. 2 free, 8 Pro-exclusive.

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Smart Notifications

Two-tier email system for launches and platform news, proximity-aware alerts, and UTM-tracked CTAs. Manage every preference from your account.

HOW IT WORKS

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AI-Powered Data Collection

Our system polls multiple APIs and news sources every 15 minutes. When a launch is within 4 hours, polling accelerates to every 2 minutes to catch scrubs, holds, and GO decisions in near real-time.

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Enrichment

Each launch is enriched with weather data, visibility calculations, booster reuse history, related news articles, and video links. A DALL·E variety engine generates unique hero imagery per post across 240,000+ stylistic combinations — no two launches look the same.

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AI Vision During Live Windows

When a launch goes live, Claude literally watches the webcast — sampling video frames to visually detect liftoff, MaxQ, MECO, stage separation, and landing. Milestones light up on your screen the moment they happen, not when a human types them.

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Your Location

Select your city or enable GPS, and we’ll calculate which launches are visible from your location, how far away they are, and what direction to look.

DATA SOURCES

Space Launch Live aggregates data from the following sources. See our Data Sources page for live status and polling details.

  • Launch Library 2 — Primary launch database with schedules, rocket specs, pad locations, and status updates
  • SpaceX API — Detailed SpaceX booster history, crew info, and Starlink data
  • Spaceflight News API — Aggregated news articles and blog posts from space industry outlets
  • Open-Meteo — Free weather forecasts for launch pad conditions
  • YouTube — Live webcast links and launch replay videos
  • JPL Horizons — Authoritative daily ephemerides for 22 deep-space probes
  • JPL Small-Body Database — Orbital elements for 71 celestial bodies, weekly sync
  • NASA GIBS — Multi-day Terra + Aqua satellite cloud imagery for live Earth layer
  • NASA FIRMS — Global wildfire hotspot data (VIIRS + MODIS)
  • NASA MODIS AOD — Daily aerosol optical depth imagery
  • NOAA SWPC — Kp index + auroral oval forecast (~20,000 points)
  • NOAA NHC — Active tropical cyclone tracks and intensities
  • CelesTrak / satellite.js — Real SGP4 propagation for 46 satellite constellations

OPEN & FREE-SOURCED

Space Launch Live is built as a WordPress plugin and theme, running on all-free and open data sources — no paid proprietary feeds. The site features dark and light modes, responsive design, automated SEO optimization, a full REST API, iCal calendar feeds, and a native iOS + Android app.

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