Space Lab

Space Lab is an interactive space exploration lab for primary and secondary students, built on publicly available scientific data. Every value is labelled observed, calculated, predicted or simulated, with its source.

Six places to explore

• Earth & the ISS — a 3D globe with the real day/night line and NASA satellite imagery; the International Space Station tracked with the SGP4 model, its ground track and predicted passes; satellite groups and the aurora forecast.
• The Solar System — every planet at its real position for any date, orbits in 3D, three stated scale modes, Lagrange points, and spacecraft trajectories such as Voyager 1 and New Horizons from NASA/JPL Horizons.
• Mars — major features and the Curiosity and Perseverance landing sites, with each rover's mission sol, local Mars time and published drive route.
• The Moon — all six Apollo landing sites; jump the clock to 20 July 1969 to see where Apollo 11 landed (a historical recreation).
• Space weather — the planetary K-index, solar wind, X-ray flux, solar flares and coronal mass ejections from NOAA SWPC and NASA DONKI, with observations and forecasts shown separately.
• Asteroids & comets — upcoming close approaches to Earth, orbits from JPL's Small-Body Database, and impact-monitoring values shown exactly as published.

Engineer a mission

Design a spacecraft and watch real mass, power, thermal, data, cost and delta-v budgets pass or fail; search real planetary geometry for the next Earth–Mars launch window; then fly the transfer and fire the orbit-insertion burn in the Journey to Mars mission.

Experiments and SPACE AI

Education experiments include Newton's cannon, a Sun-without-gravity thought experiment, drop tests on other worlds, Kepler's third law and the rocket equation. SPACE AI answers questions such as "Where is the ISS?" only from Space Lab's data tools, cites its sources, and can generate mission concepts with every assumption listed. Teachers can run shared sessions so a class follows the same view.

Is the data real?

Yes, where it says so — each value names its source and whether it is observed, calculated, predicted or simulated. Missions are always labelled as simulations. Space Lab is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, JPL, ESA, NOAA or CelesTrak.

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