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 2C | Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM). It is scheduled to be launched by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
from Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
at 2024-06-22 06:50:00 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 91
out of 206 launches from this location. The launch status is currently
Go π© . The mission type is
Astrophysics and the payload will be injected
into a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a French/Chinese planned small X-ray telescope satellite under development by China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Centre National d'Γtudes Spatiales (CNES).SVOM will study the explosions of massive stars by analysing the resulting gamma-ray bursts. The lightweight X-ray mirror for SVOM weighs just 1 kg (2.2 lb). SVOM will add new capabilities to the work of finding gamma-ray bursts currently being done by the multinational satellite Swift.
Its anti-solar pointing strategy makes the Earth cross the field of view of its payload every orbit.
NET | Status | Details |
---|---|---|
[2024-06-22 06:50:00 UTC] | π© Go for Launch | Long March 2C | Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to LEO. |
[2024-06-23 17:03:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-2 from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-24 03:45:00 UTC] | π¨ To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-2 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-25 21:16:00 UTC] | π© Go for Launch | Falcon Heavy | GOES-U from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA to GTO. |
[2024-06-30 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | Electron | Capella Acadia 3 from Wallops Island, Virginia, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-30 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-3 from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-30 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-19 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-30 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-20 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-30 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-21 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
[2024-06-30 00:00:00 UTC] | π§ To Be Determined | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-22 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
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