Achievements

All 128 achievements you can read before you earn them, what earns each one, and what it pays. Grouped by subject; the game's own sheet lists them in one column instead.

Every reward is paid once, the first time you do the thing, and never again. "What earns it" is the game's own wording, exactly as the sheet shows it. Rewards are in credits, in discovery, or in both, and a reading earned with a scientist aboard pays more than the figure here. That bonus is the scientist's own: see Science and readings.

The Achievements sheet, two rows ticked green at the top with their rewards in green, the rest muted below, and the header reading 2 / 147 unlocked. — The same list in the game. Earned rows rise to the top; the figures on the right are the reward.

First flights

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Liftoff	Launch a rocket from Earth.	+200 credits +5 discovery
Canopy	Deploy a parachute in flight.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Staged	Fire a separator in flight.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Heavy Lifter	Launch a vessel of at least 12 parts.	+300 credits +5 discovery
Ignition	Light an engine.	+50 credits +2 discovery
Pointing the Right Way	Run a reaction wheel in flight.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Nobody Aboard	Launch a vessel flown by a satellite controller.	+200 credits +5 discovery
Skyscraper	Launch a vessel of at least 25 parts.	+800 credits +15 discovery

Altitude and speed

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Sound Barrier	Go supersonic inside an atmosphere.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Above the Clouds	Reach an altitude of 10 km.	+150 credits +5 discovery
Edge of the Sky	Reach an altitude of 50 km.	+250 credits +8 discovery
Faster Than a Bullet	Reach 1 km/s.	+200 credits +5 discovery
G-Monster	Pull 8 g and live to tell.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Hypersonic	Reach Mach 3 inside an atmosphere.	+200 credits +5 discovery
Ballistic Arc	Put the top of your trajectory 150 km over Earth.	+250 credits +6 discovery
Orbital Velocity	Reach 2.2 km/s around Earth — fast enough to keep missing it.	+400 credits +10 discovery
High Country	Reach an altitude of 250 km over Earth.	+500 credits +12 discovery
The Long View	Reach an altitude of 2,000 km over Earth.	+900 credits +20 discovery

Orbit, space and docking

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Space!	Leave the atmosphere.	+400 credits +10 discovery
Stable Orbit	Get the periapsis clear of the atmosphere.	+1,000 credits +25 discovery
Escape Velocity	Leave Earth on an escape trajectory.	+800 credits +20 discovery
Lunar Visitor	Enter the Moon's sphere of influence.	+1,500 credits +40 discovery
Red Planet	Enter Mars' sphere of influence.	+4,000 credits +80 discovery
Lunar Orbit	Circularise around the Moon.	+3,000 credits +60 discovery
Interplanetary	Leave Earth behind and fall around the Sun.	+2,500 credits +50 discovery
Homeward Bound	Come back into Earth's sphere of influence from somewhere else.	+2,000 credits +40 discovery
Around the Red Planet	Get into orbit around Mars.	+5,000 credits +100 discovery
Soft Capture	Dock two vessels above 70 km: fly the rendezvous, bring the two faces together and let the latches close.	+1,000 credits +18 discovery
Assembly, Lunar Orbit	Dock two vessels in orbit around the Moon — a ship too big to launch, built where it is going.	+2,500 credits +40 discovery
Clean Break	Cut a docked pair apart above 70 km and let the halves drift — a joint made in orbit was always meant to come undone.	+400 credits +8 discovery
Handshake in Orbit	Dock with a Meek at the controls above 70 km — an approach flown by eye, not by a probe core.	+1,200 credits +20 discovery
The Long Way Round	Dock two vessels more than 1 000 km above Earth — a slow orbit, a long chase and a latch at the top of it.	+1,500 credits +25 discovery
Assembly, Mars Orbit	Dock two vessels in orbit around Mars — the depot and the lander met where the transfer ended.	+4,000 credits +60 discovery
Repeater	Put an uncrewed relay into orbit — the first piece of a network.	+900 credits +18 discovery
Through the Chain	Fly an uncrewed vessel whose link home runs through a relay of your own.	+1,400 credits +26 discovery

Parts flown and fired

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Gear Down	Launch a vessel carrying landing struts.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Vernier	Turn a ship with an engine set to RCS control.	+4 discovery
Wings Packed	Launch a vessel carrying a solar panel.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Unfolded	Deploy a solar panel in flight.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Power in the Dark	Unfold a solar panel above 140 km, where it belongs.	+400 credits +8 discovery
Strapped On	Launch a vessel carrying a solid booster.	+100 credits +3 discovery
No Off Switch	Light a solid booster. There is no taking it back.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Off the Pad	Pass 300 m/s below 5 km — the shove only solids give.	+400 credits +8 discovery
Cargo Manifest	Launch with a payload bay aboard.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Doors Open	Swing a payload bay's doors open in flight.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Open for Business	Open a payload bay above 140 km, where its cargo belongs.	+400 credits +8 discovery
Charge Aboard	Launch a vessel carrying a battery.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Serious Amps	Launch with a B-400 battery bank aboard. Something up there needs the power.	+250 credits +6 discovery
Ablative Armour	Launch with a heat shield on the vessel.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Through the Fire	Hold 1800 m/s below 70 km — air that eats an unshielded hull.	+350 credits +7 discovery
Upper Stage	Launch a vessel carrying a vacuum engine.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Where It Breathes	Light a vacuum engine above 70 km, where its bell finally pays.	+400 credits +10 discovery
Steady Hands	Launch a vessel carrying RCS thruster blocks.	+120 credits +4 discovery
Hypergolic, Cold Dark	Fire an RCS thruster above 70 km, where wings and fins are no help.	+350 credits +8 discovery
Sideways	Slide a vessel bodily above 70 km on its thrusters, without turning it.	+350 credits +6 discovery
Storable	Launch a vessel carrying an HR-1 hypergolic sphere — thrusters with something to burn.	+120 credits +4 discovery
Deep Reserves	Launch a vessel carrying an HT-2 inline hypergolic tank: enough gas to fly a rendezvous on.	+220 credits +6 discovery
Something to Latch	Launch a vessel carrying a docking port — half of a joint that has yet to be made.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Winged	Fly with a wing aboard.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Aviator	Fly level on your wings: lift carrying the whole ship below 6 km at aeroplane speed.	+80 credits +10 discovery
Flaps Down	Work a wing's flaps in the air.	+30 credits +5 discovery
Big Iron	Launch a vessel carrying a Heavy Engine — a tonne and a half of nozzle before a drop of fuel.	+300 credits +8 discovery
Nine Hundred Kilonewtons	Light a Heavy Engine. The pad's upper levels were built for this.	+500 credits +12 discovery
Small Bell	Launch a vessel carrying a Lander Engine.	+150 credits +5 discovery
Seventy Kilos of Engine	Light a Lander Engine somewhere that is not Earth — the descent it was built for.	+900 credits +20 discovery
Light the Torch	Fire an escape motor above 70 km — seven seconds of thrust nothing its size can match, spent where it counts.	+500 credits +12 discovery
Torch as Tiller	Turn a ship above 70 km on an escape motor wired to the thrusters — the bluntest steering in the catalogue.	+450 credits +10 discovery
Abort, Lunar	Fire an escape motor inside the Moon's sphere — a lander's last resort, and you used it.	+1,200 credits +20 discovery
Under Wraps	Launch with a Payload Fairing over the cargo — the shell takes the air and the heat so the payload does not have to.	+12 discovery
Fairing Sep, Nominal	Split a Payload Fairing above 55 km, where there is no longer air enough to be worth carrying a shell through.	+25 discovery
Five Rings	Launch with a Contoured Fairing over the cargo — five places to bend the skin, for a payload the plain shell will not go round.	+14 discovery
Big Shell, Big Rocket	Launch a rocket of at least sixteen parts with a Contoured Fairing on the nose. Nothing that tall is carrying a small payload.	+18 discovery
Belt and Braces	Launch with a Separation Motor on a booster — one second of shove, so the spent case leaves instead of drifting back into the stack.	+6 discovery
Push Off	Fire a Separation Motor above 5 km — a booster thrown clear of the ship, not dropped beside it.	+10 discovery
In Contact	Launch a vessel carrying a radio antenna.	+5 discovery

Landings and recovery

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Touchdown	Land back on Earth after a launch.	+300 credits +8 discovery
Home Again	Recover a landed vessel from the flight menu: it comes home and its parts are refunded.	+200 credits +5 discovery
One Small Step	Land on the Moon.	+5,000 credits +100 discovery
Dust on the Legs	Land on Mars.	+8,000 credits +150 discovery
High Ground	Come to rest on Earth more than 300 m above the datum — a hilltop, a ridge, a plateau.	+400 credits +10 discovery
Table Service	Land on one of Earth's plateaus — the flat top is the target, the flanks are the trap.	+600 credits +12 discovery
Hillside Parking	Come to rest on ground steeper than 10° without tipping over.	+500 credits +10 discovery
Above the Snow Line	Land on Earth above 2 300 m, where the air stays below freezing — thin enough that a canopy alone may not save you.	+1,200 credits +25 discovery
Crater Floor	Land inside one of the Moon's craters.	+2,000 credits +40 discovery

Readings and science

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Field Science	Take a reading with a thermometer or a barometer.	+100 credits +3 discovery
Slow Air at One Kilometre	Read the temperature 1 km over Earth (900–1100 m) while moving between 2 and 60 m/s. A parachute descent does it.	+300 credits +8 discovery
Thin Air	Read the pressure between 10 and 12 km over Earth.	+150 credits +5 discovery
Deep Freeze	Read Earth's coldest air: 217 K or less, inside the atmosphere.	+200 credits +6 discovery
Hard Vacuum	Read zero pressure above Earth's atmosphere.	+250 credits +8 discovery
Lunar Weather Station	Read the temperature low over the Moon, under 2 km.	+2,500 credits +50 discovery
Martian Weather Report	Read the pressure inside Mars' atmosphere.	+3,000 credits +60 discovery
Science Package	Launch a vessel carrying an instrument.	+150 credits +4 discovery
Diligent Observer	Take ten readings with one instrument on a single flight.	+250 credits +8 discovery
Hot Soak	Read 350 K or more. Above the air a thermometer reads its own skin, so this one glows.	+400 credits +10 discovery
Martian Cold Snap	Read 200 K or colder in Mars' atmosphere.	+3,000 credits +60 discovery
Field Laboratory	Take twenty-five readings with one instrument on a single flight — more charge than a pod carries.	+450 credits +10 discovery

Your space center

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Groundbreaking	Extend any building of your space center.	+500 credits +10 discovery
Bigger Rockets	Extend the launch pad to level 2: taller, heavier ships may start from it.	+1,000 credits +20 discovery
Second Wing	Extend the Research Centre and open the next tier of the tech tree.	+1,000 credits +20 discovery
Lunar Ground	Build a launch pad on the Moon.	+2,000 credits +40 discovery

The Meek

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Two Up	Launch a vessel carrying a Crew Capsule — two seats, and a good deal more ship to lift.	+10 discovery
Room for Two	Steer a Crew Capsule on its wheels above 100 km, with a crewmate at the second window.	+800 credits +20 discovery
Somebody Aboard	Launch with a Meek in the pod. A capsule flies only with an astronaut in it.	+8 discovery
A Meek in Space	Carry a Meek above the atmosphere.	+200 credits +12 discovery
A Meek in Orbit	Put a Meek into a stable orbit.	+1,500 credits +30 discovery
Home from Orbit	Bring a Meek home after an orbit. Their record grows only when they land.	+2,000 credits +40 discovery
Crew of Two	Launch with two Meek aboard.	+15 discovery
Field Notes	Take a reading with a Meek aboard to write it down.	+150 credits +15 discovery
The Paying Kind	Launch with a passenger aboard. Somebody who is not there to fly the thing, only to look out of it.	+12 discovery
Worth the Ticket	Bring a passenger home from above the air. The contract pays; this is what it was for.	+900 credits +20 discovery
Economy Class	Launch a vessel carrying a Passenger Cabin — two more seats, and everyone in them eats from the same larder.	+10 discovery
Full House	Launch with four Meek aboard, a Passenger Cabin among the parts. Somebody has to fly it; the rest are along for the view.	+20 discovery
Coach to Orbit	Put three Meek into a stable orbit of Earth at once.	+1,200 credits +25 discovery

Contracts

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Open for Business	Complete a contract for a company.	+300 credits +8 discovery
Contractor	Extend the Administration: more contracts at once, and harder ones.	+800 credits +15 discovery
Reliable Partner	Complete ten contracts.	+1,500 credits +30 discovery

Out to the far worlds

Achievement	What earns it	Reward
Two Strokes Off Your Game	Enter the sphere of influence of Twostrokes, the scorched iron world closest to the star.	+4,000 credits +30 discovery
Existence Is Pain	Enter the sphere of influence of Existence — ninety-two atmospheres of hot carbon dioxide, and nothing you send there comes back.	+4,000 credits +30 discovery
Ninety-Two Atmospheres	Read 100 kPa or more inside Existence's air — that is under 73 km, deep in the deck, and the probe is not coming home.	+5,000 credits +35 discovery
Flurbos Only	Enter the sphere of influence of Flurbo, the icy dwarf out in the belt.	+5,000 credits +30 discovery
Worth a Schmeckle	Land on Schmeckle. Twenty-five kilometres of rock, a quarter of a metre per second of gravity, and a sphere of influence you can miss.	+7,000 credits +45 discovery
Look at Me, I'm a Planet	Enter the sphere of influence of Meeseeks Prime — 6 600 km of hydrogen and the largest thing in the system after the star.	+7,000 credits +45 discovery
Caaan Do!	Land on Caandu, the ice moon of Meeseeks Prime.	+11,000 credits +70 discovery
Somebody Landed on Jerry	Land on Jerry, the biggest moon in the system. Somebody had to.	+10,000 credits +60 discovery
Press the Button	Enter the sphere of influence of The Box, the ringed giant.	+8,000 credits +50 discovery
Gazorpazorp	Land on Gazorpazorp. One and a half atmospheres of nitrogen at 94 K and a tenth of Earth's gravity — the one place out there where a parachute does the whole job.	+12,000 credits +75 discovery
Cronenberged	Enter the sphere of influence of Cronenberg, the green one nobody meant to make.	+10,000 credits +60 discovery
That's a Long Squanch	Enter the sphere of influence of Squanch, thirty times Earth's distance from the star.	+11,000 credits +65 discovery
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub	Land on Wubba, the big moon of Squanch.	+14,000 credits +85 discovery
Pluto Is a Planet	Enter Pluto's sphere of influence. It is a planet. Ask anyone from there.	+12,000 credits +75 discovery

Hidden achievements

There are 18 more that are not listed anywhere, here or in the game, until you earn one. The sheet counts them into a single row at the bottom and says nothing else about them. Earning one turns it into an ordinary row with its title, what you did and what it paid. That is deliberate, and this page will not spoil them.

With those, the whole set is 148.