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 | Dror-1? ("Commercial GTO 1"). It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
at 2025-07-13 04:31:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 320
out of 1037 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
TBC π¨ . The mission type is
Communications and the payload will be injected
into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit
(GTO).
Note: Payload identity is uncertain and to be confirmed, based on FCC documentation. SpaceX identifies the mission as "Commercial GTO 1".Dror-1 is a geostationary communication satellite built and developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). It is intended to meet the satellite communication needs of Israel for the next 15 years. Dror-1 is comprised primarily of local Israeli technologies developed at IAI, including an advanced digital communication payload and βsmartphone in spaceβ capabilities, to provide communication agility throughout the satelliteβs lifetime in space.
NET | Status | Details |
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[2025-07-13 04:31:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-14 02:27:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-15 21:30:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-16 06:05:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-17 02:08:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-25 05:54:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-26 02:03:00 UTC] | π© Go for Launch | |
[2025-07-30 11:30:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | |
[2025-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | |
[2025-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined |
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