Atmosphere
About 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases.
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Planet 03 · Terrestrial ocean world
The only known world with a living ocean.
Earth is the largest rocky planet and the only place known to host life. Liquid surface water, plate tectonics, a protective magnetic field, and a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere make it unlike every other world we have examined.
World profile
About 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases.
A moving rocky crust with continents, ocean basins, ice, and active plate tectonics.
Global average about 59 °F (15 °C)
One — the Moon
Composition
Field notes
Earth is the only planet known to keep stable liquid water on its surface.
The moving liquid-metal outer core generates the magnetic field that helps shield the atmosphere.
The leading model for the Moon's origin starts with a giant impact into the young Earth.
Sourced image archive
Every image keeps its credit, capture date, description, and original source. Mission imagery links back into the same Andromeda mission catalog.
Earth portrait
A seamless true-color Western Hemisphere globe assembled from Terra MODIS observations of land, ocean, sea ice, and clouds.
Connected mission archive
Flybys, orbiters, landers, atmospheric probes, rovers, launch missions, gravity assists, and system satellites are linked here when they exist in the Andromeda catalog.
Open mission browser →8816 linked missions · showing 313–336
Earth orbit · Launch payload
The Soyuz-2 rocket will launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with an unconfirmed payload. It has been suggested that the payload will be Meridian-M n°21L new generation communication satellite of dual purpose: civilian and military that was delayed several years headed for the Molniya orbit.
View in 3D map — Meridian-M No.21LPrimary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
Debut flight of the Tianlong-3, failed around stage separation.
View in 3D map — Tianlong-3 Demo FlightEarth orbit · Launch payload
There is currently no concrete information on whether the launch carried an additional payload.
View in 3D map — Unconfirmed PayloadEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-375 (10-58) mission on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-375 (10-58)MoonMoon · Launch payload
Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program and will send four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—on a lunar flyby and return to Earth. The flight is designed as a crewed test of the Orion spacecraft and associated mission systems following the uncrewed Artemis I mission. Key objectives include validating Orion’s crew life support and operational readiness in deep-space conditions, performing in-flight checkouts and crew procedures, and executing a lunar free-return trajectory before Earth reentry and ocean recovery. The mission also incorporates international contributions, including the European Service Module that provides propulsion, power, and consumables for Orion. Along with the four crew members, four CubeSats will ride along as secondary payloads: - TACHELES from the German space agency DLR - ATENEA from Argentina’s space agency CONAE - K-RadCube from the Korea AeroSpace Administration - Space Weather CubeSat-1 from the Saudi Space Agency
View in 3D map — Artemis II (EM-2)
Moon · Crewed lunar flyby
The first crewed Artemis flight completed a nine-day lunar flyby in April 2026.
View in 3D map — Artemis IIEarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-374 (10-44) mission on Monday, March 30, 2026 at 9:15 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-374 (10-44)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-16 mission on Monday, March 30, 2026 at 11:02 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Transporter-16Earth orbit · Research mission
W-6 is catalogued by GCAT as a microgravity research mission in the Varda program.
View in 3D map — W-6Earth orbit · Launch payload
First flight of the Kinetica-2 launch vehicle. While CAS Space plans the first stage and side boosters to eventually be reusable, a recovery test on this flight was not attempted.
View in 3D map — Demo FlightEarth orbit · Launch payload
First flight of the Kinetica-2 launch vehicle. While CAS Space plans the first stage and side boosters to eventually be reusable, a recovery test on this flight was not attempted.
View in 3D map — TS-01Earth orbit · Launch payload
On-orbit experiment laboratory.
View in 3D map — Xinzhengcheng 01Earth orbit · Launch payload
Prototype of the Qingzhou cargo spacecraft which will eventually deliver cargo to the Tiangong space station.
View in 3D map — Xinzhengcheng 02 (Qingzhou Spacecraft Demo)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Electron mission for the European Space Agency (ESA). First two satellites for the LEO-PNT navigation constellation.
View in 3D map — LEO-PNT Pathfinder AEarth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 2C rocket launched the Shiyan 33 mission on Friday, March 27, 2026 at 4:11 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Shiyan 33Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-373 (17-17) mission on Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 11:03 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-373 (17-17)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 2D rocket launched the SuperView Neo 2 (05 & 06) mission on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 10:51 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SuperView Neo 2 (05 & 06)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The mission will launch the first batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites providing broadband Internet with speeds up to 1 Gbps for the Russian company Bureau-1440. Bureau-1440 is a Russian company named after the number of orbits made by the first Earth's artificial satellite Sputnik-1. It is also a producer of the Rassvet satellites (which means "Dawn" in Russian). The company is planning to launch around 900 satellites by the 2035. The mission was launched in the great secrecy on March 23, 2026 at 20:24 Moscow time from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome using more powerful Soyuz 2.1b rocket variant, but without Fregat upper stage. Eyewitnesses reported launch in flight already after the second stage separation and some local media misinterpreted it as a traces of previous Progress-33 ISS cargo mission that was already in orbit since one day earlier. But in the morning of March 24, 2026 the producer of the Rassvet satellites - Bureau-1440 - confirmed the launch attaching the video from the moment of separation from the launch vehicle. Along 16 high speed Russian internet communication satellites Rassvet-3, additional payload consisted of a small Russian satellite OBZP1. The launch of the latter was separately reported before the Bureau-1440 announcement and without mentioning of Rassvet-3 group. The launch was successful and the communication with all satellites is already established.
View in 3D map — Rassvet-3 (16 x)Earth orbit · Launch payload
10 navigation satellites for a planned 160-satellite constellation.
View in 3D map — Centispace-02Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-372 (10-62) mission on Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-372 (10-62)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-371 (17-15) mission on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 9:51 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-371 (17-15)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Launching a single StriX Earth Observation Satellite into orbit for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. 8th mission out of the 27 planned for Synspective and Rocket Lab.
View in 3D map — StriX Launch 8Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-370 (10-33) mission on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 2:20 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-370 (10-33)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-369 (10-46) mission on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 1:27 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-369 (10-46)Associations use destination records plus a curated cross-world manifest for flybys and gravity assists. Mission-name collisions such as Project Mercury and Saturn launch vehicles are deliberately kept with Earth unless they actually visited the planet. Technically obvious; historically necessary.
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