NASA Launches

NASA Launches tracks NASA's launch manifest across Artemis missions, Space Launch System flights, commercial crew operations and science or robotic payloads carried on NASA-led schedules. The feed stays focused on published launch plans rather than broader space-policy debate, so the emphasis is on named missions, launch windows, launch sites and the operational cadence of a programme that spans human spaceflight, exploration hardware and research payloads. That scope is important because NASA launch activity is not limited to one vehicle family or one mission class. Artemis and other SLS flights sit alongside lower-Earth-orbit crew operations, cargo-related activity and science missions with very different development timelines and readiness criteria. Kennedy Space Center remains central to many of those plans, and published entries can include specific infrastructure such as Launch Complex 39B when that level of detail is available. Artemis III is a good example of the kind of mission the feed is built to follow: a high-profile programme event tied to a named vehicle, site and window, yet still subject to the wider launch-process variables that affect scheduling. Data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs gives the calendar a structured source for revisions as agencies and launch providers update timing. That matters because range coordination, vehicle checks, payload integration, weather and mission assurance reviews can all move a launch, sometimes repeatedly, before liftoff. The feed therefore works as a launch-manifest tool rather than as a static archive of mission announcements. It is especially useful when several NASA programmes are progressing on different readiness timelines at once and across mission types. For researchers, engineers, space journalists and mission watchers, the Smart Calendar Feed is free to subscribe and works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. Keeping launch dates in a standard calendar app helps with editorial planning, staffing and public-affairs work. The calendar updates regularly, with more frequent refreshes as liftoff approaches, so revised windows, scrubs and rescheduled missions appear automatically.