Where this is going

In the build

Playable today.

• N-body gravity at real scale, with 6DOF flight
• The real solar system: today's date, real elliptical orbits, axial tilts and the Moon's real orbit
• Every world's own air and wind: thin Martian CO2, Venus at 92 bar, Titan's frozen nitrogen
• Aerodynamics from each part's real shape, and flaps that steer by their drag
• Structures at their real stiffness that bend, wear through and buckle before they break
• Heat shields that char like real ablators, and landers that cook on Venus unless insulated
• Super-heavy hardware: the 9 m family, methane engines, hot staging, flaps and heat tiles
• Real planetary imagery and elevation for every body, with rayed craters and Venus under its clouds
• A night sky with real constellations, the Milky Way, airglow, the aurora and the planets
• A launch complex built to be looked at: service tower, flame trench, deluge steam, floodlights
• Mission planner with launch windows to the Moon, mid-course trims and landings
• A map that follows your flight, with clickable apsides and other craft's orbits on a click
• Time warp to ten million times on rails, held back only where the physics needs it
• A ground tracking camera with a long lens, and broadcast calls from liftoff to engine cutoff
• Docking, and EVA with a real jetpack budget and flags you can draw
• Rovers built on a chassis, wheels that snap on like a car's, driven off the pad
• Flying through cloud: billows rushing past and water running down the lens
• A cockpit to sit in: live displays, working switches, mouse-look, your crew beside you, the launch heard through the hull
• Career mode, 400+ challenges, and block-code automation
• Paint, lettering and flight wear on every part
• A builder that says what to add next, and a parts list you can jump around
• Your own world on the title screen, and an in-game changelog
• Accounts, the shop and this account center
• iOS build with touch controls, and screen reader mode