TripGeo now has a space programme!

We have spent years helping you find your way round the Earth, and it seemed only fair to see what's next door. So TripGeo Space is now open for boarding at space.tripgeo.com, with two journeys to start with. One takes you round the Solar System. The other takes you through the whole history of the universe. Both run in your browser, there's nothing to install, and no spacesuit is required.

All aboard the Seraphine

Here's a 53-second taster, filmed on board the starliner Seraphine: leaving Earth behind, streaking past the Milky Way, slipping into orbit round Jupiter, Io and Saturn's rings, and watching the Sun eclipse the ship.

The Solar Trip

The Solar Trip is a hyper-fast cruise round the real Solar System in a luxury starliner. Ride the glass lift from the grand promenade up to the viewing dome on top of the ship, then watch the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and the Oort cloud go by.

The Seraphine circles each world once, and when you arrive the ship's voice welcomes you and reads out that world's card. At the end of the voyage she settles into a permanent orbit, so you can stay and enjoy the view for as long as you like. There is no coach to catch.

The Cosmic Trip

If the Solar System feels a little local, the Cosmic Trip goes rather further. Aboard the survey ship Lumen, you set out from the first second of the Big Bang and travel through the first light, the cosmic web, the first stars and galaxies, quasars, galaxy clusters, black holes and stellar nurseries, past every kind of star and every kind of stellar death, to the solar nebula, the Sun and home.

The cosmic clock is elastic: slow through that first second, then racing through the aeons between stops. That's how 13.8 billion years fits into one sitting. Watch from the glass observation dome, read the articles and infographics on the science consoles, or plan a journey of your own.

Next on the launch schedule

The two trips are only the start. There's a lab full of work in progress behind them, and the TripGeo Space home page has a gallery of what we're working on now.