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 | Starlink Group 11-16. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
at 2025-05-22 20:58:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 193
out of 807 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
TBC 🟨 . The mission type is
Communications and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2025-05-22 20:58:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-16 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-05-23 07:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Kosmos (Unknown Payload) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to N/A. |
| [2025-05-24 17:19:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-22 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-05-25 16:14:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-1 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-05-27 23:30:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Starship | Flight 9 from SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA to Sub. |
| [2025-05-28 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Long March 3B/E | Tianwen-2 from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to Asteroid. |
| [2025-05-28 13:30:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-32 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-05-30 20:24:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-18 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-05-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV08 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to MEO. |
| [2025-05-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Minotaur IV | EWS OD-1 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to SSO. |
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