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 Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1. It is scheduled to be launched by Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) from Unknown Pad, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation at 2025-12-24 14:00:00 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 0 out of 1679 launches from this location. The launch status is currently Go 🟩 . The mission type is Earth Science and the payload will be injected into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.

In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.

The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.

NET	Status	Details
[2025-12-24 14:00:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to SSO.
[2025-12-25 23:18:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Long March 8A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A.
[2025-12-26 06:26:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload from Haiyang Oriental Spaceport to N/A.
[2025-12-26 16:00:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Long March 3B/E | Fengyun-4C from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to GTO.
[2025-12-27 03:58:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Ceres-2 | Demo Flight from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A.
[2025-12-28 02:08:00 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Falcon 9 Block 5 | CSG-3 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to SSO.
[2025-12-28 13:18:05 UTC]	🟩 Go for Launch	Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | AIST-2T 01 & 02 from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation to SSO.
[2025-12-30 21:00:00 UTC]	🟨 To Be Confirmed	Long March 7A | Unknown Payload from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A.
[2025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Kinetica 2 | Demo Flight from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A.
[2025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC]	🟧 To Be Determined	Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A.

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