Why we built it
Space is having a moment. Rockets landing on drone ships, providers racing for Mars (the Moon?), new players launching every month. We started OutRocket because we kept missing cool launches, and got tired of hunting across a dozen sites to find out what was next.
So… when’s the next launch?
You'd think that question would have an easy answer. It doesn't. Schedules slip, scrubs happen, dates come in at partial precision (year, half, quarter, month, day), and the canonical source moves around. So we do the homework. We pull from multiple sources, cross-check the facts, and keep everything in one place that actually reads like a page, not a feed.
Then we got a bit obsessed
What started as “let's not miss launches” turned into something closer to a reference book. Decades of history, every rocket, every flight, the successes and the occasional rapid unplanned disassembly. Dive in and fall down the rabbit hole with us.
