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 577–600
Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-290 (10-20) mission on Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-290 (10-20)Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-289 (17-4) mission on Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-289 (17-4)Earth orbit · Launch payload
The eight launch of a batch of Low Earth Orbit communication satellites, to further build up the Guowang constellation. This constellation is planned to eventually consist of about 13000 satellites.
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 08Earth orbit · Launch payload
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket launched the USSF-106 mission on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — USSF-106Earth orbit · Launch payload
the launch of EUMETSAT's second generation weather satellites into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
View in 3D map — Metop-SG A1Low Earth orbit · Launch payload
The Kuiper constellation will need more than 80 launches to complete its first phase, which will include more than 3200 satellites. The K(uiper) F(alcon) launch no. 2 will send further 24 Kuiper satellites into orbit, bringing the total number of deployed Kuiper spacecraft to 102.
View in 3D map — Leo-4 (KF-02)Earth orbit · Launch payload
Founded in 2018 and based in Shanghai, China, GEESPACE is a science and technology innovation enterprise under Geely Holding Group. Geespace is building GEESATCOM, a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation for global communication network connectivity, dedicated to providing worldwide satellite application services for the future mobility.
View in 3D map — Geely Constellation Group 04Earth orbit · Launch payload
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the "The Harvest Goddess Thrives" mission on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — QPS-SAR-12 (Kushinada-I)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 12 rocket launched the SatNet LEO Group 07 mission on Monday, August 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 07Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-288 (10-30) mission on Monday, August 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-288 (10-30)Suborbital · Suborbital mission
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launched the NS-34 mission on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — NS-34
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Earth orbit · Human-spaceflight support
New Shepard NS-34 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the New Shepard program.
View in 3D map — New Shepard NS-34
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Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Dragon Endeavour (Crew-11) is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Dragon Endeavour (Crew-11)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Crew-11 mission on Friday, August 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Crew-11Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-287 (13-4) mission on Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-287 (13-4)Earth orbit · Launch payload
An ExPace (China) Kuaizhou 1A rocket launched the PRSC-S1 mission on Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — PRSC-S1Earth orbit · Launch payload
The NASA/ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite will map the elevation of Earth's land and ice masses 4 to 6 times a month.
View in 3D map — NI-SAREarth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 8A rocket launched the SatNet LEO Group 06 mission on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 06Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-286 (10-29) mission on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-286 (10-29)Earth orbit · Launch payload
First launch for Gilmour Space and their Eris rocket, and the first orbital launch attempt from an Australian company. Bowen Orbital Spaceport is the first licensed commercial orbital launch facility in Australia, with access to 20- to 65-degree (low to mid) inclination Low Earth Orbits. After the scrubbed attempts, the anomaly investigations were concluded as of May 30, 2025. On July 29, 2025, the rocket lifted off but failed to reach orbit.
View in 3D map — Eris Debut FlightEarth orbit · Launch payload
An i-Space Hyperbola-1 rocket launched the Kunpeng-03 mission on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Kunpeng-03Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 6A rocket launched the SatNet LEO Group 05 mission on Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — SatNet LEO Group 05Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-285 (17-2) mission on Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-285 (17-2)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-284 (10-26) mission on Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-284 (10-26)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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