Orbit Painter

Mission archive

Historical mission archive

Fly through history.

Explore three landmark missions through source-backed spacecraft trajectories, guided chapters, and flight-director telemetry.

Archive protocol

Trajectories are pre-generated from JPL Horizons vectors. Playback is read-only, works offline after loading, and never invents a missing flight path.

  1. Archive 01ICRF · KM–S
    2022 · Earth / Moon

    Artemis I

    Ride with Orion from Earth departure to the Moon, through distant retrograde orbit, and home to splashdown.

    Window
    25 days
    Craft
    Orion
    Chapters
    10
    Open mission
  2. Archive 02ICRF · KM–S
    2017 · Saturn / Titan

    Cassini Grand Finale

    Trace the last ring-gap passage, Titan’s goodbye, and Cassini’s deliberate atmospheric finale at Saturn.

    Window
    7 days
    Craft
    Cassini
    Chapters
    08
    Open mission
  3. Archive 03ICRF · KM–S
    1979 · Jupiter / Galileans

    Voyager 1 at Jupiter

    Cross the Jovian system with Voyager 1 through moon encounters, closest approach, and discoveries that rewrote Jupiter.

    Window
    18 days
    Craft
    Voyager 1
    Chapters
    05
    Open mission