DATA SOURCES
AI-powered real-time data from multiple space industry APIs. Polling accelerates automatically when a launch is within 4 hours. AI verifies data accuracy and fills gaps twice daily.
Space Launch Live uses artificial intelligence to ensure every launch is tracked with complete, accurate data.
Auto-Verification
AI scans every launch twice daily and 1 hour before liftoff, cross-referencing multiple news sources to fill missing data fields — rocket type, orbit, pad, status, and provider.
Gap Detection
AI compares our database against the latest Spaceflight News API articles to identify and import any launches that may have been missed by our primary data source.
Daily AI Briefings
Every morning, AI generates a comprehensive launch briefing summarizing the day’s launches with credibility-scored sources, context, and internal links.
Source Credibility
100+ news sources are scored on a credibility scale from 1–100 across 4 tiers: Official, Established, Enthusiast, and Unverified. Scoring factors are transparent.
Live Milestone Detection
During live launches, AI monitors news feeds every 30 seconds to detect and confirm mission milestones — liftoff, MECO, booster landing, payload deploy — in real time.
Video Caption Analysis
AI scans YouTube webcast captions to automatically detect liftoff timestamps and milestone events, syncing the Mission Control replay experience to any launch video.
Powered by Claude AI · Anthropic · Data verified against multiple independent sources
Primary launch database. Comprehensive launch schedules, rocket specs, agencies, pads, and mission details for all providers worldwide.
Aggregated space news from major outlets. Launch-related articles, blog posts, and ISS reports.
Free weather forecasts. Provides current conditions at launch pad coordinates including temperature, wind, cloud cover, and visibility.
NORAD Two-Line Element (TLE) data for space station orbital tracking and active satellite counts. Provides real-time orbital parameters.
Real-time data on how many people are in space right now, including names and which craft they are on.
Fetches verified summaries for satellite constellations and space stations. Cross-referenced with other sources by AI for accuracy.
Real-time launch discussion from official accounts (SpaceX, NASA, ULA, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin) and space journalists. Detects status changes, scrubs, holds, and webcast links ahead of other sources.
NASA/JPL Horizons ephemeris system. Provides precise positions, velocities, and orbital elements for all known solar system bodies including deep space probes.
NASA publicly available images and videos. Used to find official spacecraft photos, mission imagery, and science results for deep space probes.
Claude AI cross-references data from all sources (News API, Wikipedia, CelesTrak, Open Notify, X Search) to verify satellite operational counts, station crew rosters, and launch status accuracy.