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
Kuaizhou-1A | Unknown Payload. It is scheduled to be launched by ExPace
from Mobile Launcher Pad, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
at 2024-09-20 09:33:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 5
out of 211 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Unknown and the payload will be injected
into an Unknown
(N/A).
Details TBD.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2024-09-20 09:33:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Kuaizhou-1A | Unknown Payload from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2024-09-20 13:50:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-17 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-09-20 23:01:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Electron | Kinéis Killed the RadIoT Star (Kinéis 6-10) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO. |
| [2024-09-26 18:05:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-9 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Ceres-1 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to PO. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-8 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 18 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to MEO. |
| [2024-09-30 05:24:20 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 8 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan to SSO. |
| [2024-10-04 10:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Vulcan VC2S | Certification Flight 2 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
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