Atmosphere
About 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases.
Acquiring mission data
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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 721–744
Earth orbit · Launch payload
Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS. "The Lightning God Reigns" is the first of eight upcoming launches for iQPS across 2025 and 2026
View in 3D map — iQPS Launch 1 (QPS-SAR-9 - Susanoo-I)
Primary facts source
NASA Science · Earth facts ↗
Earth orbit · Crewed mission
Dragon Endurance 4 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 program.
View in 3D map — Dragon Endurance 4Earth orbit · Launch payload
The Crew-10 mission will carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander; and Nichole Ayers, pilot; JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, mission specialist; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, mission specialist, to the International Space Station.
View in 3D map — Crew-10Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-239 (12-21) mission on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-239 (12-21)Earth orbit · Launch payload
SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind.
View in 3D map — SPHEREx & PUNCHEarth orbit · Launch payload
The first planned launch from LC-1 of the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site.
View in 3D map — Qianfan-05 (Polar 05)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 3B rocket launched the TJSW-15 mission on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — TJSW-15Suborbital · Launch payload
A SpaceX Super Heavy / Starship Prototype rocket launched the Starship Flight 8 mission on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starship Flight 8Earth orbit · Launch payload
French high-resolution reconnaissance satellite Composante Spatiale Optique-3 (CSO-3) will be launched on the second flight of Ariane 6 rocket
View in 3D map — CSO-3Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-238 (12-20) mission on Monday, March 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-238 (12-20)Earth orbit · Launch payload
GLONASS-K2 are the newest Russian navigation satellites of the fourth generation designed to improve on accuracy, power consumption and lifetime up to 10 years.
View in 3D map — GLONASS-K2 No. 14LEarth orbit · Launch payload
An explosion may have occurred just before or after ignition. There has been no official confirmation of this, however, and social media posts suggesting such an explosion have since been deleted.
View in 3D map — Unknown PayloadEarth orbit · Cargo mission
Progress MS-30 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Progress MS program.
View in 3D map — Progress MS-30Earth orbit · Launch payload
Also known as Siwei Gaojing-1 (03, 04), two satellites for a planned 28-satellite commercial remote sensing constellation.
View in 3D map — SuperView Neo 1 (03 & 04)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-237 (12-13) mission on Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-237 (12-13)
Moon · Deep-space mission
IM-2 Athena is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the IM program.
View in 3D map — IM-2 AthenaMoonMoon · Launch payload
This mission will deliver NASA’s PRIME-1 drill to the Moon’s surface as part of a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) delivery. Landing takes place in the following weeks.
View in 3D map — Intuitive Machines CLPS Flight IM-2Suborbital · Suborbital mission
NS-30 is the 10th crewed flight for the New Shepard program with passengers Elaine Chia Hyde, Jesús Calleja, Richard Scott, Tushar Shah, and Lane Bess.
View in 3D map — NS-30
Blue Originarchive
Suborbital flight · Crewed mission
New Shepard NS-30 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the New Shepard program.
View in 3D map — New Shepard NS-30Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-236 (15-1) mission on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-236 (15-1)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A CASC Long March 3B rocket launched the ChinaSat 10R mission on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — ChinaSat 10REarth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-235 (12-14) mission on Friday, February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-235 (12-14)Earth orbit · Launch payload
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink-234 (10-12) mission on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM (UTC).
View in 3D map — Starlink-234 (10-12)Earth orbit · Launch payload
BlackSky Gen-3 Earth-imaging satellites. The ninth mission of Rocket Lab's contract with BlackSky signed in 2019
View in 3D map — BlackSky Gen-3 1Associations 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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