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 | OneWeb 20. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
at 2024-10-01 06:44:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 160
out of 772 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
TBC 🟨 . The mission type is
Communications and the payload will be injected
into a Polar Orbit
(PO).
A batch of 20 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2024-10-01 06:44:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to PO. |
| [2024-10-04 08:05:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-10 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-10-04 10:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Vulcan VC2S | Certification Flight 2 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-10-07 14:52:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hera from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to Asteroid. |
| [2024-10-10 16:31:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to Helio-N/A. |
| [2024-10-26 06:44:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan to GTO. |
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