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 | CSG-3. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
at 2026-01-03 02:09:19 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 238
out of 852 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Earth Science and the payload will be injected
into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit
(SSO).
CSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operating in the X-band.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-01-03 02:09:19 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | CSG-3 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to SSO. |
| [2026-01-04 05:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-88 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-07 18:55:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-10 18:34:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-11 04:15:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to SSO. |
| [2026-01-17 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Spectrum | Flight Two from Andøya Spaceport to SSO. |
| [2026-01-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Ceres-2 | Demo Flight from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-01-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Electron | Bridging The Swarm (NeonSat-1A) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to SSO. |
| [2026-01-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird Block 2 #2 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to SSO. |
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