Launch Today

Today's rocket launches.
Past queued to T−15s.
Apple TV, Mac, iPad.

Launch Today puts recent and upcoming rocket launches from around the world on one timeline of days: the past to the left, the future to the right. It's centred on today, on any launch that's live right now, replays of launches that already flew today, the launches still to come later today, and launch-pad cameras that stream around the clock.

Launch Today on a Mac: three days side by side, each a column of launch videos, over a line map of the selected launch's pad — On a Mac, iPad or Vision Pro, neighbouring days sit side by side.

Daily timeline

Live launch coverage is top priority, with focus on biggest rocket. 24/7 launchpad live feeds are always available “TODAY” but as lowest priority furthest down the stack.

Launch Today on iPhone: a strip of dates along the top and the selected day's launch videos below — On iPhone, a strip of dates sits above the selected day's videos.

T−15s replays

Launch broadcasts run over an hour before liftoff. Launch Today finds the moment of liftoff (T−0), and starts that replay 15 seconds before liftoff (T−15s). Videos you've started in Launch Today's player resume where you left off on that device.

Launch Today samples frames across launch footage in the background and reads the on-screen countdown clock with Apple's text recognition on your device. You can configure how far back Launch Today performs this indexing: one day, one week, or one month.

Minimized re-scanning

With iCloud, when one of your devices finds a launch's liftoff, your other devices use that result instead of analysing the same video again. Clear results are also added to a shared public list (just the video, its length and the liftoff time, nothing about you), so other people's devices can check them instead of starting from scratch. Launch Today has no accounts, ads or tracking. Privacy.

Sources

Launch times, providers, pads and mission descriptions come from The Space Devs' worldwide Launch Library, together with SpaceX's own mission list.

SpaceX launches play as SpaceX's broadcasts on X. X broadcasts for other launch companies come from the Launch Library's webcast links and, after a launch, from the company's own mission page.
Live coverage on YouTube: besides the webcasts the Launch Library lists, Launch Today checks these channels for live coverage: NASA, Blue Origin, JAXA, ISRO and Roscosmos, plus Spaceflight Now, NASASpaceflight, Everyday Astronaut and CGTN.
Always on: Spaceflight Now's live feed (launch-pad views between webcasts) and ESA Web TV sit on today's stack.
Replays: when you open a finished launch that has no video yet, Launch Today searches trusted channels' archives for a recording of that exact mission. Launches from Russia, Japan, India and China look first to Roscosmos, JAXA, ISRO and CGTN. For Chinese launches it can also use launch footage from The Paper or Weibo.
Other languages: Russian and Chinese rocket and mission names are translated on your device to match the English launch record. Japanese and Hindi titles are recognised as launch coverage and matched using their English mission details.

A schedule alone never makes anything “live”. A video is labelled live only when its publisher marks it live, and Launch Today also checks that the stream is actually advancing. Launch Today checks more often as liftoff gets close.

Play it your way

Launch Today plays videos natively, or offers up whatever other client options are available such as X/Twitter or YouTube. Official launch feed is the default, but clicking into a launch will provide a list of playback choices, including different sources and (if historic) T offsets.

Launch Today's Playback choices on a Mac for Transporter 18: rows for Launch Today, X and two YouTube channels, columns for No offset, T−15s and T−60s — Playback choices: who plays it, and how close to liftoff.