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 | NROL-172. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX
from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
at 2026-05-11 22:28:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 266
out of 882 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Government/Top Secret and the payload will be injected
into an Unknown
(N/A).
Thirteenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-05-11 22:28:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-172 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to N/A. |
| [2026-05-12 11:49:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Long March 6A | Unknown Payload from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-05-12 23:16:36 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-05-13 02:52:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-05-15 04:24:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-05-15 14:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-37 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-05-15 22:30:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Starship | Flight 12 from SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA to Sub. |
| [2026-05-17 12:50:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 9) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-05-17 14:34:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Long March 8 | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-05-19 02:11:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-42 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
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