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 | Polaris Dawn. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
at 2024-09-09 07:38:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 184
out of 242 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
TBC 🟨 . The mission type is
Human Exploration and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
First mission of the privately funded Polaris program. The goal of this mission, lasting up to five days in orbit, is to fly higher than previous Dragon missions, perform the first-ever commercial EVA with SpaceX-designed spacesuits, orbit through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, conduct medical research, and test laser-based Starlink communications in space.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2024-09-09 07:38:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Polaris Dawn from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 8 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan to SSO. |
| [2024-09-11 16:23:20 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-26 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to LEO. |
| [2024-09-12 08:52:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird Block 1 from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-09-15 22:48:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32) from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA to MEO. |
| [2024-09-16 23:01:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Electron | Kinéis Killed the RadIoT Star (Kinéis 6-10) from Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO. |
| [2024-09-24 18:50:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-9 from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | OneWeb 20 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to PO. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to PO. |
| [2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  PSLV | Proba-3 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to Elliptical. |
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