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
Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight. It is scheduled to be launched by RKK Energiya
from 45/1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
at 2026-04-29 11:00:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 46
out of 1562 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
TBC 🟨 . The mission type is
Test Flight and the payload will be injected
into a Suborbital
(Sub).
Demonstration Flight for Russia's new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, with a mass simulator on board. Details TBD.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-04-29 11:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to Sub. |
| [2026-04-29 14:13:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific) from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to GTO. |
| [2026-04-30 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-36 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-04-30 08:08:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Ariane 64 | Amazon Leo (LE-02) from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana to LEO. |
| [2026-05-01 17:33:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-38 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-05-03 06:59:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2 & Others from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to SSO. |
| [2026-05-06 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-29 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-05-12 23:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-05-19 03:52:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana to Elliptical. |
| [2026-05-22 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-07) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
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