Launch & Orbit

Launch & Orbit title screen: Launch from real sites
Launch & Orbit home menu: one minute, every day
Launch & Orbit launch HUD: real physics, made simple

Pick a launch site, set your angle and thrust, and fly a satellite to orbit. The Sun, Moon and planets are where they really are right now.

Features

  • Real-time 3D Earth, Sun, Moon and stars — live day and night, city lights, real star positions
  • One-drag launch control with physics-based flight, stage separation and payload deploy
  • Real launch sites around the world, each with its real allowed launch directions
  • Daily Launch: the same mission worldwide, 3 tries, global, country and friend rankings
  • Booster landing and tower catch challenges, plus 150+ space fact cards
  • Campaign: history chapters, world tour, expert missions and contract missions

No account needed to play.

Music by Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au) and Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Includes NASA imagery; NASA does not endorse this app.

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