Can I see the launch from my location?
Distance is only half the answer. A launch 300 miles away can be unmissable after dark and invisible at noon. Share your location and every upcoming Cape Canaveral launch gets checked against it.
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Type a city to see one real viewing forecast for the next launch you could see from there. No account needed, and nothing is saved.
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Share your location and every launch below gets checked against it: whether it clears your horizon, which way to face, how high it climbs and what the sky is doing over you.
Your browser will ask for permission first. RocketRune uses your position to work out which way to face and how high each launch will appear.
Your position is rounded to about 1 km on your device before it is sent. It goes to RocketRune's servers to do this calculation, and our servers ask OpenWeatherMap for the cloud forecast using a position rounded to about 11 km.
- Use once: RocketRune does not save it to your browser or your account.
- Save this location: kept in this browser until you remove it.
- You can remove a saved location at any time in Privacy choices.
What decides whether you'll see it
Three things, in roughly this order. Geometry: Earth curves, so past a few hundred miles the rocket never clears your horizon no matter how clear the night is. Lighting: the best case is a launch 30 to 60 minutes after sunset, when the plume catches sunlight far overhead while you stand in the dark. A midday launch is the weakest case, because a contrail against a bright sky fades fast with distance. Cloud: forecast over you, not over the pad, which on the Space Coast are regularly different skies.
The direction and elevation figures come from spherical geometry against the pad's published coordinates. The visibility score on top of them is a judgement, which is why the numbers behind it are shown rather than hidden.