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
Zhuque-3 | Flight 2. It is scheduled to be launched by LandSpace
from Launch Area 96B, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
at 2026-08-18 23:27:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 1
out of 292 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go 🟩 . The mission type is
Test Flight and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
Second test launch of LandSpace’s ZQ-3 rocket. Payload identities are TBD.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-08-18 23:27:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to LEO. |
| [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. |
| [2026-08-22 07:25:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-20 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, 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. |
| [2026-08-25 05:49:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-49 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-08-25 16:44:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-22 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [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. |
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