INTERACTIVE EARTH // GLOBAL SPACEFLIGHT
Launch Sites
Active Missions
Orbital Tracks
Airspace

IGW // CINEMA IN SPACE

Spaceflight, witnessed.

Original films and photography from the launchpad and beyond. Follow the stories. Explore the missions.

WATCH THE FILMSMISSION CONTROL
The full Starship stack on its launch mount at Starbase in low evening light.
EARTH // INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE
LAUNCHES // EXPLORE WORLDWIDE
STARSHIP // PROGRAM EXPLORER
IGW // ORIGINAL COVERAGE

IGW // FILMS

Filmed by IGW.

Original launch films, Starship flights, recovery operations and field reports from the IGW team, newest first.

ALL IGW FILMS

Our footage on screen.

SELECTED DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Once Upon a Time in Space

A documentary series directed by James Bluemel.

Featuring launch footage captured by IGW.

Seen on BBC, PBS and Prime Video.

OUR PARTNER

Marcus House

Marcus House · Spaceflight coverage

Launchpad. Orbit. Beyond.

Your window into spaceflight.

Still of the interactive Earth from the IGW homepage: the sunlit hemisphere over the Americas with the day–night terminator, launch-site markers and station orbit tracks, captured 3 September 2026.
GLOBAL OPERATIONS

Interactive Earth

Launch sites, station orbits and airspace around the pad, on one globe.

Open the Earth
NEXT

Launch Queue

Follow upcoming missions, launch windows and countdowns in the global schedule.

NOW

Spaceflight Today

See upcoming launches, orbital activity and recent mission milestones in Mission Control.

02 // STARSHIP

Starship, documented flight by flight.

Flight history, vehicle details, Starbase closures and original IGW films—connected in one program record.

PROGRAM TRACKER

One continuous record of the program.

Follow the program through mission records, field reporting and original IGW films.

Every launch is part of a bigger story.

03 // KNOW

News that connects to the mission.

IGW reporting and original media sit alongside a source-linked spaceflight newswire, connected to the missions, vehicles, organizations and tools around each story.

Poster for IGW’s NASA Roman Space Telescope — Falcon Heavy launch recap.
IGW ORIGINAL // LAUNCH RECAP

Falcon Heavy — Through our lens

SPACEFLIGHT NEWSWIRE

External reporting, source-linked.

The latest reporting from across the space industry loads here.

MORE SPACEFLIGHT NEWS

More verified external reporting.

Explore more reporting from across the space industry.

04 // EXPLORE

Tools for following what happens next.

Launch schedules, airspace and marine notices, true-scale vehicle comparisons and the newswire—open to everyone.

LAUNCHES

Launches shown at the precision each source publishes.

Open Launches
VEHICLES

Flight history, vehicle details and Starbase closures.

Open Starship
COMPARE

Sixteen rockets at true relative scale.

Compare vehicles
NEWS

Original IGW coverage, the newswire and NASA imagery.

Open News

NOTICES

FAA and marine notices drawn at pad scale.

Open Notices

MISSION CONTROL

Launches, stations, spacewalks, dockings and recoveries in one place.

Open Mission Control
05 // EXPERIENCE

We don't just follow spaceflight. We go there.

IGW crews capture launches, vehicles and recovery operations in the field. Every photograph and film on this page is part of that original record.

A rocket rises out of its own exhaust cloud into a broken cloud deck in daylight.

IGW ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY // LAUNCH THROUGH THE CLOUD DECK

Starship lifts off from Starbase, clearing the tower on a bright plume.
A Super Heavy booster descends toward the launch tower at sunset, engines lit.

Starship lifts off from Starbase; Super Heavy returns to the tower. Original IGW photography.

Photographs — Sam Kaplan · Brandon M. Wynn