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 6-70. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
at 2024-12-04 08:29:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 276
out of 990 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Communications and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2024-12-04 08:29:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-70 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-04 10:38:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  PSLV-XL | Proba-3 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to Elliptical. |
| [2024-12-04 16:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Soyuz 2.1b | Kosmos (Unknown Payload) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to N/A. |
| [2024-12-04 21:20:33 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Vega-C | Sentinel-1C from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana to SSO. |
| [2024-12-05 00:06:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-14 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-05 16:10:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-9 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to GTO. |
| [2024-12-07 21:24:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-2 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-08 05:10:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-5 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-14 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  KAIROS | Flight 2 from Spaceport Kii, Japan to SSO. |
| [2024-12-20 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | PSLV | SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to LEO. |
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- 🔗 [] SpaceX might launch first Starlink Gen2 satellites next week
- 🔗 [] AI startup Synthetaic raises $15 million in Series B funding
- 🔗 [] Pushing the Envelope
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- 🔗 [] Slingshot’s space-tracking network to extend coverage of low Earth orbit
- 🔗 [] China researching challenges of kilometer-scale ultra-large spacecraft
- 🔗 [] Stanford center focuses on spacecraft autonomy