Ride alongside the spacecraft at the moment it happened

OpenSpace recreates real missions using actual trajectory data, instrument footprints, and observation timelines from NASA and ESA archives.

How it works

Real trajectory data

SPICE kernels from NASA and ESA place every spacecraft at its exact position for any given date and time. Every flyby happens at the moment it really did.

Instrument footprints

Camera fields of view, observation targets, and acquired images appear at the moment and position they were captured, with actual pointing direction.

Full time control

Play, rewind, scrub, or accelerate to any moment in a mission’s history. Combine with Globe Browsing to fly from Earth to a planet’s surface in one continuous view.

Missions

01 NASA

Artemis

Lunar return · 2022 – present

Follow the Artemis program's return to the Moon, from Orion's trans-lunar trajectory and lunar orbit insertion all the way to the surface. Real trajectory data places the spacecraft at its exact position for every phase of the mission.

02 NASA / ESA / CSA

James Webb Space Telescope

L2 orbit · 2022 – present

See JWST's actual orbit at the Sun-Earth L2 point, 1.5 million km from home, and explore the deep fields it has surveyed since launch.

03 NASA

Apollo 11

Moon landing · July 20, 1969

Watch the command module and lunar module at their exact positions throughout the mission. Scrub through the full eight-day flight, from liftoff at Cape Kennedy to splashdown in the Pacific.

04 NASA

Voyager

Interstellar space · 1977 – present

Trace the full journey of both probes through planetary encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, out to interstellar space. Scrub through decades of flight in seconds.

05 NASA

Mars

Jezero Crater · February 18, 2021

The Mars profile covers both InSight and the Perseverance rover. Follow Perseverance's traverse across Jezero Crater using real trajectory data, then pull back to see the full landing sequence from orbit.

Start flying with spacecraft

Every mission listed here is available in OpenSpace today. Download it free and open the mission profiles from the launcher.

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