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
Soyuz 2.1b | Resurs-P No.5. It is scheduled to be launched by Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
from 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
at 2024-12-25 07:45:42 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 419
out of 1552 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Earth Science and the payload will be injected
into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit
(SSO).
Resurs-P is a series of Russian commercial Earth observation satellites capable of acquiring high-resolution imagery (resolution up to 1.0 m).
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2024-12-25 07:45:42 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Soyuz 2.1b | Resurs-P No.5 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to SSO. |
| [2024-12-27 00:53:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2024-12-29 01:35:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-3 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-29 05:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to GTO. |
| [2024-12-30 05:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-6 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-30 16:28:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  PSLV-CA | SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to LEO. |
| [2024-12-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | New Glenn | Maiden Flight from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to N/A. |
| [2025-01-02 05:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Thuraya 4-NGS from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to GTO. |
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