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/Fregat-M | Kondor-FKA No.2. It is scheduled to be launched by Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
from Cosmodrome Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
at 2024-11-29 21:50:25 UTC. Until
then, this pad will have been used for 17
out of 18 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 Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E satellite.The Kondor satellite features a S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can conduct both continous swath surweys or detailed spot surveys. The swath width is 10 km. Ground resolution is 1 to 2 m in spotlight mode, 1 to 3 m in stripmap mode and 5 to 30 m in ScanSAR mode.
| NET | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| [2024-11-29 21:50:25 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Kondor-FKA No.2 from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation to SSO. |
| [2024-11-30 05:00:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed |  Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-65 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-11-30 08:08:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-126 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to N/A. |
| [2024-11-30 14:17:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  Long March 12 | Maiden Flight from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2024-12-02 04:45:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Long March 6A | Unknown Payload from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2024-12-03 05:46:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to N/A. |
| [2024-12-03 16:00:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch | Soyuz 2.1b | Kosmos (Unknown Payload) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation to N/A. |
| [2024-12-04 00:29:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-14 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-04 08:29:00 UTC] | 🟨 To Be Confirmed | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-70 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to LEO. |
| [2024-12-04 10:38:00 UTC] | 🟩 Go for Launch |  PSLV-XL | Proba-3 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India to Elliptical. |
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