Launches & Reentries

The traffic in and out of the atmosphere on TerraPulse is organized into two Eventdexes — one slot per event. launch catalogs rockets leaving Earth; entry catalogs everything coming down, from natural fireballs to reentering hardware to meteorites recovered on the ground. Every slot is an event that was recorded as it happened. No estimates, no forecasts.

The dexes

Counts are live and grow with every fetch:

Provenance

• Launches come from Launch Library, an open catalog of rocket launches worldwide.
• Atmospheric entries pool from four measured archives:
  • the Global Meteor Network, a worldwide camera array that triangulates meteor tracks,
  • NASA/JPL CNEOS fireballs, bolides detected by U.S. government sensors,
  • CelesTrak reentries, tracked hardware falling out of orbit,
  • and recorded meteorite falls — the events where a meteorite was recovered on the ground.

What’s in a record

• Time — launch or entry time, UTC
• Location — launch site, or the entry’s ground track / recovery location
• Vehicle or object — rocket and mission, or the entering body
• Entry energy — the radiated and total impact energy of a fireball (entry dex)
• Velocity — entry speed, where measured (entry dex)
• Outcome — launch success, or meteorite recovery for a fall

Explored in

• The 2026 Fireball Surge — a count of what came down and whether it really rose