Kitten Space Agency

Kittens, Crew & Coming Home

Getting kittens into vehicles, keeping tabs on them while they're up there, and bringing vehicles and their crews safely home.

Jul 14, 2026

Fuel Lines

Let's talk about Fuel Lines, what do I need them for again?

Jul 7, 2026

•Taylor @ Ahwoo

Kitten Space Agency Teaser Revealed

Watch the first early development teaser for Kitten Space Agency, captured from real-time pre-alpha gameplay.

Subparts, Bayparts & (Universal) Storage

Jun 14, 2026

Subparts, Bayparts & (Universal) Storage

As ambitions grew, cold war space programs began to favour more crewed missions over robotic probes. Supporting the needs of these crew became a mission in itself.

May 29, 2026

•Taylor @ Ahwoo

Kitten Space Agency Wins Hi-Tech Award

Kitten Space Agency (KSA) has won the NZX Most Innovative Hi-Tech Creative Technology Solution at the 2026 NZ Hi-Tech Awards.

May 23, 2026

Target Tracking Window

Visualise your trajectory relative to a target, track closest approach, and plan burns directly from a new window built to make orbital rendezvous easier.

May 1, 2026

Solar Panel Animations / Solar Tracking

Solar Panels and Parts now support Key frame animations and Solar tracking.

Apr 29, 2026

•maxpig2

Raytraced Interiors

A deep dive into raytraced interiors

Mar 19, 2026

Segmented Solids

Sometimes getting into space requires a little less finesse and a little more force, and for that there's nothing better than a solid rocket booster.

Mar 18, 2026

•blackrack

Planetary rings

A technical dive into the inner workings of rings

Mar 6, 2026

Docking & Undocking!

Yep, KSA now has fully functional docking and undocking functionality.

Feb 8, 2026

Multi-Stage Rockets!

Kitten Space Agency now has Multi-Stage rockets!!!!

Jan 27, 2026

New year, retro hardware

January parts progress - greebles and switches and cushions galore.

Jan 20, 2026

•Linx

Putting Rocks on The Moon

Taking a look at the work-in-progress surface object generation and rendering overview.

Jan 15, 2026

Starting Situations

You can now set the starting vehicle and situation when starting the game.

Jan 13, 2026

Decoupling!

Yes that's right, we now have Decoupling! And Part Window UIs!

Jan 6, 2026

We begin to dive into Resource Systems

First raw work on resource management systems is under way. Here's some first-cut visualizations of some resource flow graphs.

Getting a Glow-Up

Heat is one of the big dramas of spaceflight - whether it's a boiling plasma cloud around a capsule on re-entry, the glow of a heatshield, or the thrust of an engine.

•gravhoek

Celestial Coordinate Frames

One thing that makes spaceflight confusing is losing the "up" direction. This is true for astronauts, but can be even worse for those trying to do the math on the ground.

•Rocket

Development Recap Year One

Did an interview with ShadowZone - which you can view on their patreon now, please remember independent journalism isn't free.

•Rocket

Pre-Alpha Public Release

The close pre-alpha is now public and the build is now available for download. The current build is more than a tech demo, but less than a game.