Prime Highlights

• Netflix will live-stream NASA+ live content such as rocket launches, spacewalks, and live views of the Earth beginning summer 2025.
• The development bolsters Netflix’s presence in live programming while assisting NASA in broadening public access to its missions.

Key Facts

• NASA+ is an ad-free, free streaming service that was launched in November 2023, succeeding NASA TV.
• Netflix’s international user base of more than 700 million will now have direct access to NASA+ programming.
• Future events include the launch of the Progress 92 cargo on July 3 and its docking at the space station on July 5.

Key Background

In a historic partnership, Netflix said it will team up with NASA to stream real-time space programming from NASA+, the agency’s own ad-free streaming service. Starting in summer 2025, Netflix members across the globe can watch key space events in real time—rocket launches, spacewalks, Earth vistas from the International Space Station, and mission status—straight from their Netflix interface, ads-free and fee-free.

NASA+, launched in late 2023, came to replace the old NASA TV and provide a contemporary means through which the space agency can connect with the public. The platform has concentrated on providing space exploration to wider audiences through documentaries, mission updates, and educational programming. Its content was initially available via the NASA website, mobile apps, and streaming devices such as Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV.

Netflix’s live content strategy has been building up consistently. From live sports and award ceremonies to comedy specials, Netflix has been dipping its toes in live content to drive engagement and churn reduction. This new alliance with NASA marks Netflix’s drive to further diversify its content offerings and move in concert with science and educational programming.

For NASA, the partnership achieves an important objective in its original mandate—to engage space exploration activities with the public. Joining with Netflix, a network of over 700 million subscribers, serves much more effectively to reach younger international audiences that might not normally be exposed to conventional space reporting.

The first in a series of big events to be broadcast under this agreement are the July 3 launch of the Progress 92 cargo ship and its planned docking on July 5. These will be included in a broader roster of live broadcasts later in the year, possibly with Artemis missions, ISS updates, and others.

This effort is an integration of entertainment and science on a planetary level, and could be a template for the ways that space agencies and media outlets collaborate with each other to involve the public in the future of exploration.