Keep track of rocket launches with the free Spacetime app

Spacetime App Promo (Image credit: Afram Yirdaw)

What you need to know

Spacetime sends you a notification ahead of a rocket launch and then offers tons of information about it and its payload..

If you're someone who likes to keep track of all the rockets being launched into space, you're going to love Spacetime. It's a free app, available for iPhone and iPad, that will alert you before any launch. And that's just the start.

Once you know there's a launch coming up Spacetime will show you all kinds of information about it. You'll know where it's launching from, who's launching it, and even be given a link to a video showing the launch as well. It's a fun time for all!

Get past and upcoming space launch information from agencies around the world & be notified when they launch. Spacetime helps you stay updated with the space industry by providing you detailed information on past and upcoming missions from NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, Roscosmos…and many more private and government agencies.

Today I release what I’ve been working on for the past months, A major release of Spacetime 2.0! 🎉

My goal with Spacetime is to build a home for all space lovers, and to get people excited about space travel.https://t.co/khwjF4qQ6A pic.twitter.com/OL5NPKdgQ7Today I release what I’ve been working on for the past months, A major release of Spacetime 2.0! 🎉

My goal with Spacetime is to build a home for all space lovers, and to get people excited about space travel.https://t.co/khwjF4qQ6A pic.twitter.com/OL5NPKdgQ7— Gaxxey (@gaxxey) October 22, 2020 October 22, 2020

Notable features include:

Past & Upcoming launches
Launch notifications
Launch vehicles information
Add space events to your calendar
Widgets for glanceable info
Recent Space News
Space News Filtered by Agency

Again, all of this is free. In-app purchases are available if you want to throw the developer a few dollars for their work and boy should you do that. You can check Spacetime out for yourself – it's in the App Store now.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.