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 | USSF-366. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA at 2026-08-15 21:52:00 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 289 out of 905 launches from this location. The launch status is currently Go 🟩 . The mission type is Government/Top Secret and the payload will be injected into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

USSF-366 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites for a US government entity based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of rocket stage drop zones being exact fits with previous Starlink Group 15 launches.

NET	Status	Details
[2026-08-15 21:52:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-366 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO.
[2026-08-16 01:12:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon 9 Block 5 | Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 9) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO.
[2026-08-17 02:00:00 UTC]	🟨 To Be Confirmed	Long March 12 | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A.
[2026-08-19 02:00:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-50 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO.
[2026-08-20 15:19:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-39 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO.
[2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC]	🟨 To Be Confirmed	Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to LO.
[2026-08-27 20:10:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Ariane 62 | MTG-I2 from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana to GTO.
[2026-08-30 11:26:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to L2.
[2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Angara 1.2 | Kosmos (Unknown Payload) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to N/A.
[2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Electron | LOXSAT 1 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to LEO.

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