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
Long March 8A | Unknown Payload. It is scheduled to be launched by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
from Commercial LC-1, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
at 2026-08-04 08:44:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 12
out of 69 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Unknown and the payload will be injected
into an Unknown
(N/A).
Details TBD.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-08-04 08:44:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Long March 8A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-08-04 14:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-53 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-08-05 02:27:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload from Haiyang Oriental Spaceport to N/A. |
| [2026-08-05 07:42:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8) from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-08-06 19:30:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  H3-22 | Michibiki 7 (QZS-7) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan to GTO. |
| [2026-08-08 14:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-38 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-08-09 11:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Long March 7A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2026-08-10 14:49:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-19 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-08-12 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-49 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, 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. |
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