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
Firefly Alpha | Stairway to Seven. It is scheduled to be launched by Firefly Aerospace
from Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
at 2026-03-03 00:50:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 98
out of 865 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
TBC 🟨 . The mission type is
Test Flight and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
Firefly Alpha's Flight 7 will be a test flight and return-To-Flight for the launch vehicle after its April 2025 launch failure. It will test and validate key systems ahead of Firefly’s Block II configuration upgrade on Flight 8 that’s designed to enhance reliability and manufacturability across the vehicle.Flight 7 will be the last flown in Alpha’s current configuration and will test multiple Block II subsystems, including the in-house avionics and thermal improvements, to gain flight heritage and validate lessons learned ahead of the full configuration upgrade on Flight 8.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2026-03-03 00:50:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Firefly Alpha | Stairway to Seven from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-03-04 02:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  KAIROS | Flight 3 from Spaceport Kii, Japan to SSO. |
| [2026-03-04 06:58:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-40 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-03-04 21:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-18 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-03-08 10:58:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-31 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-03-10 03:14:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | EchoStar 25 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to GTO. |
| [2026-03-12 02:37:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-24 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-03-12 12:17:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-48 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC] | 🟧 To Be Determined |  Spectrum | Onward and Upward from Andøya Spaceport to SSO. |
| [2026-03-22 11:59:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-33 (94P) from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan to LEO. |
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