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 | O3b mPower 11-13. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
at 2026-09-13 18:49:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 400
out of 1128 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Communications and the payload will be injected
into a Medium Earth Orbit
(MEO).
3 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-09-13 18:49:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 11-13 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to MEO. |
| [2026-09-15 01:21:07 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Vega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEX from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana to SSO. |
| [2026-09-15 06:18:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Zhuque-2E Block 2 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-09-15 21:50:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Gravity-1 | Unknown Payload from Haiyang Oriental Spaceport to N/A. |
| [2026-09-16 01:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-259 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to PO. |
| [2026-09-16 13:33:53 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P) from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to LEO. |
| [2026-09-17 00:25:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Long March 12 | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-09-18 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Starship | Flight 14 from SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-09-20 01:47:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-27 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Electron | LOXSAT 1 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO. |
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