Watch Every Rocket Launch Live
Launch HQ is mission control for orbital spaceflight — a real-time countdown to the next launch worldwide, the official webcast embedded the moment it goes live, a live & simulated flight-telemetry readout, an auto-advancing stage-event timeline, and a 3D ascent & recovery trajectory. When a launch deploys a satellite, Orbital Radar tells you when it will pass over your sky — see satellite pass predictions for your location.
Live vs simulated telemetry
When the broadcaster shows on-screen telemetry, we read the real speed and altitude live and label it measured. Otherwise we show a calibrated nominal flight profile for that vehicle, labelled projected — clearly distinguished, never passed off as live data from the rocket.
Launch status, holds & scrubs
A launch is rarely a single instant. Our state machine tracks the whole lifecycle — GO, technical HOLD (clock frozen, with the reason and a recycle countdown), liftoff, ascent milestones, orbit insertion, and a graceful SCRUBBED state with the next attempt time when a launch stands down for the day.
Vehicles & providers
Track the workhorses of modern spaceflight: the reusable SpaceX Falcon 9, the heavy-lift Starship, Rocket Lab's Electron, ULA's Vulcan and every other orbital vehicle. Most Falcon 9 flights carry Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, with the booster returning to a droneship or landing zone. Browse the full launch log or the launch-vehicle directory, and watch the resulting spacecraft on the live globe.