Launch Window

About the Game

Launch Window is a management sim about early commercial spaceflight in an alternate-history 1960s, where private companies join the Space Race alongside national programs.

Take contracts from clients who want cameras, experiments, publicity payloads, and stranger cargo sent above the atmosphere. Buy launch vehicles, study mission requirements, choose your preparation budget, and decide when the risk is worth the reward.

Every launch is a financial gamble. Spend too little and your odds get ugly. Spend too much and the contract may not be worth flying. Your company survives by balancing ambition, risk, reputation, and cash.

Use period launch vehicles, from suborbital capsules to larger orbital rockets. Match the right vehicle to the job, plan around launch windows, and watch the mission play out.

The world moves around you. Historical headlines mark the pressure of the Cold War and the Space Race as your private launch company tries to carve out a place in an industry where one failure can erase months of profit.

Features:

- Manage a private launch company during an alternate-history Space Race

- Accept contracts with different payloads, deadlines, risks, and rewards

- Purchase and launch historic launch vehicles

- Plan launches around budget, preparation time, mission goals, and launch windows

- Watch launches unfold through trajectory and flight views

- Navigate the high-risk economics of early commercial spaceflight

- Follow historical news events as the 1960s space age unfolds