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 | Starlink Group 6-97. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
at 2026-01-12 17:42:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 356
out of 1078 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Communications and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-01-12 17:42:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-13 15:38:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Long March 8A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-01-14 18:01:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-15 16:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-01-15 19:30:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Ceres-1S | Unknown Payload from Haiyang Oriental Spaceport to N/A. |
| [2026-01-17 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Spectrum | Flight Two from Andøya Spaceport to SSO. |
| [2026-01-17 03:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Ceres-2 | Demo Flight from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-01-17 04:18:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-105 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to N/A. |
| [2026-01-18 22:04:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-100 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-01-19 07:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Long March 12 | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
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