My name is Caleb Jones and i'm a Software Engineer in Test with years of experience as QA Engineer. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia and i'm currently working at Magnet Forensics. I'm a Founder and Board Member of The Space Devs and I'm the Founder and Developer of Space Launch Now a popular mobile application for tracking spaceflight events!
This is my main side project, a spaceflight tracker for Android and iOS using data from The Space Devs - Launch Library API. It was first launched in 2016 as the first quality spaceflight even tracking mobile app at a time where renewed public focus was being brought in thanks to the efforts of SpaceX. The project is very mature now with a robust CI/CD pipeline, backend services for GCM, Twitter/Instagram bots and other various services all running on a Digital Ocean hosted kubernetes cluster.
Interested in checking it out? App store links available here!
The Space Devs is a group of space enthusiast developers working on a range of services, united in a common goal to improve public knowledge and accessibility of spaceflight information. We aim to bring space app developers together into a thriving community by providing helpful data and tools, accessible to everyone for free.
The next space launch, retrieved from The Space Devs
Launch Library 2 API, is
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 17 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare). It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
at 2026-07-07 07:10:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 279
out of 895 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Dedicated Rideshare and the payload will be injected
into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit
(SSO).
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-07-07 07:10:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 17 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to SSO. |
| [2026-07-09 09:05:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-42 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-07-10 05:12:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Long March 10B | Demo Flight from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-07-11 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-48 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-07-12 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Gravity-1 | Unknown Payload from Haiyang Oriental Spaceport to N/A. |
| [2026-07-12 05:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  Vikram-I | Demo Flight from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to LEO. |
| [2026-07-13 22:38:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-14 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-07-14 14:47:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-29 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to LEO. |
| [2026-07-17 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Electron | LOXSAT 1 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO. |
| [2026-07-17 11:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Long March 7A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
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