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 Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific). It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA at 2026-04-27 14:21:00 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 221 out of 280 launches from this location. The launch status is currently Go 🟩 . The mission type is Communications and the payload will be injected into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.

NET	Status	Details
[2026-04-27 14:21:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific) from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to GTO.
[2026-04-28 00:52:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-06) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO.
[2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to PO.
[2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to Sub.
[2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A.
[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.

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