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
Starship | Flight 13. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
at 2026-07-24 22:45:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 1
out of 21 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Test Flight and the payload will be injected
into a Suborbital
(Sub).
13th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Second flight of Starship V3.For the first time, Starship will carry 20 V3 Starlink satellites to space, which will extend solar arrays and antennas and will attempt to connect with ground stations in South Africa and the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers.
6 of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions. Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-07-24 22:45:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Starship | Flight 13 from SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA to Sub. |
| [2026-07-25 14:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-51 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-07-29 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-52 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-07-29 11:42:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Long March 7A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-07-30 00:52:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Long March 6A | Unknown Payload from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-07-30 06:37:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-95 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to N/A. |
| [2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Electron | LOXSAT 1 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO. |
| [2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Electron | StriX Launch 11 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to SSO. |
| [2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined | Electron | The Grain Goddess Provides (iQPS Launch 7) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO. |
| [2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Mir | Demo Flight from Sea Launch to LEO. |
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