SpaceEngine
Sign in to saveSpaceEngine is an interactive 3D planetarium and astronomy software initially developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Development is now continued by Cosmographic Software, an American company founded by Romanyuk and the SpaceEngine Team in February 2022, based in Connecticut.
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SpaceEngine is a 3D astronomy program and game engine developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Using real astronomical catalogs and procedural generation, it creates a three dimensional planetarium representing the entire universe. Users can travel through space in any direction or speed, and forwards or backwards in time. It uses pseudo-random numbers to procedurally create any kind of planetary system, nebula or galaxy.
- Released
- 2019
- Genres
- Simulator, Indie
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- OpenGL
- Developer
- Vladimir Romanyuk, Cosmographic Software
- Publisher
- Vladimir Romanyuk, Cosmographic Software
Key facts
- Software.name
- SpaceEngine
- Software.logo
- SpaceEngine logo.png
- Software.logo size
- 250px
- Software.logo caption
- Logo
- Software.author
- Vladimir Romanyuk
- Software.developer
- Cosmographic Software
- Software.released
- 0.74 / June 2010
- Software.latest release version
- 0.991.49.2095
- Software.latest release date
- 8 December, 2025
- Software.latest preview version
- 0.991.49.2095
- Software.latest preview date
- 3 December, 2025
- Software.size
- 4 GB (software only) to 50 GB (with all optional DLCs: Solar System HD texture packs)
- Software.language count
- More than 20
- Software.language
- English, Catalan, Croatian, Chinese, Czech, Spanish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Armenian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, etc.
- Software.genre
- Space simulation
- Software.license
- Proprietary
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- spaceengine.org
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- software version identifier
- 0.991.49.2090
- inception
- 2011-04-25
- Commons category
- SpaceEngine
- publication date
- 2019-06-11
- official forum URL
- forum.spaceengine.org
- social media followers
- 15700
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Functionality
- Catalog objects
- Procedurally generated objects
- Wiki and locations
- Extensions
- Limitations
- Development
- See also
- References
- External links
SpaceEngine is an interactive 3D planetarium and astronomy software initially developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Development is now continued by Cosmographic Software, an American company founded by Romanyuk and the SpaceEngine Team in February 2022, based in Connecticut.
SpaceEngine creates a 1:1 scale three-dimensional planetarium representing the entire observable universe, combining real astronomical data with scientifically accurate procedural generation algorithms. Users can travel through space in any direction or at any speed and can move forwards or backwards in time. SpaceEngine is currently in beta status. Up to version 0.9.8.0E, released in August 2017, it was available as freeware for Microsoft Windows. Version 0.990 beta, the first paid edition, was released on Steam in June 2019. The program fully supports VR headsets.