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 🟨 . 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 “smartphone in space” capabilities, to provide communication agility throughout the satellite’s lifetime in space.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2025-07-13 04:31:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dror-1? ("Commercial GTO 1") from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to GTO. |
| [2025-07-14 02:27:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-2 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-07-15 21:30:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  Eris-1 | Maiden Flight from Bowen Orbital Spaceport to LEO. |
| [2025-07-16 06:05:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Project Kuiper (Falcon 9 #1) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-07-17 02:08:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-3 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-07-25 05:54:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4 from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation to SSO. |
| [2025-07-26 02:03:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Vega-C | CO3D & MicroCarb from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana to SSO. |
| [2025-07-30 11:30:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  GSLV Mk II | NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to SSO. |
| [2025-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 4 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2025-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-11 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to LEO. |
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