I honestly thought my obsession with Starship was easing… turns out all it took was flight 12 (the first flight of version 3 of Starship), and, well… I got a bit carried away and made a SpaceX launch viewer for AppleTV and iPad.
It started out as a little experiment with the X API, just to see if it would be possible to filter posts with a live video or broadcast, but then I also started poking around with the SpaceX website and saw that they had an API to show all of their Starship pages too.
A few hours later, and agents and I had built an AppleTV app that made it so much easier to share Starship launches with my friends and family.
Features:
- Plays livestreams of all SpaceX rocket launches
- Plays all Starship films (Test like you fly is amazing!)
- Plays all Starship test flights (including Starhopper)
Just when I thought I was done, I realised that there was another big screen sitting on my kitchen bench that needed some love – so I added iPad support too.
Install it on your AppleTV – Space TV on the Apple App Store.
Try beta versions on your AppleTV or iPad via Apple Test Flight: testflight.apple.com/join/S7UnNx5W
Or build it yourself from GitHub: github.com/sighmon/SpaceX-TV
More information: sighmon.com/spacex-tv/
If you’re a SpaceX employee and have found this page, could I please have permission to publish the iPad version on the Apple App Store?
If you’re an X API team member, could I please have some tokens so that it doesn’t cost too much to do the x.com/spacex fetches?
Thank you, and enjoy!