NSF - NASASpaceflight.com@NASASpaceflight·Another busy week of launches has arrived, with SpaceX dominating the launch manifest with four missions scheduled for the week.
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com@NASASpaceflight·A busy slate of launches is planned for the last full week of September, including flights for two major low-Earth orbit broadband constellations, as well as a NASA science mission. China and Rocket Lab are also planning flights, with Electron set to fly two suborbital hypersonic research missions from Wallops Island, Virginia.
A busy slate of launches is planned for the last full week of September, including flights for two major low-Earth orbit broadband constellations, as well as a NASA science mission that has now flown. China and Rocket Lab are also planning flights, with Electron set to fly two suborbital hypersonic research missions from Wallops Island, Virginia.
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com@NASASpaceflightSpaceX is scheduled to launch up to three times this week.Each mission planned to deploy internet communications satellites into low-Earth orbit: two for the company’s own Starlink megaconstellation and one for its competitor, Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
NSF - NASASpaceflight.comSpaceX is set to dominate the launch manifest for the first whole week of October with five Falcon 9 missions. All five of these missions will launch satellites into internet constellations, with four launching into SpaceX’s Starlink constellation and the fifth launching into Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation.Meanwhile, China will launch another unknown payload atop its Chang Zheng 8A rocket. Blue Origin also looks to join the launch schedule by launching six people to suborbital space on its New Shepard vehicle.
Six missions comprise the worldwide launch manifest this week, including a crewed launch from China and a new naval satellite for the Indian Navy. SpaceX is set to kick off the week with three back-to-back Starlink missions from its pads in California and Florida.Later in the week, China will launch the crewed Shenzhou 21 mission to the Tiangong space station with three new taikonauts onboard. On Sunday, SpaceX plans to launch a rideshare Bandwagon mission before India launches its LVM-3 rocket and GSAT-7R satellite to geostationary transfer orbit.
This week’s launch manifest will now feature ten missions launching on eight different rockets, including the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.In addition to three Falcon 9 missions from SpaceX, an Ariane 62, New Glenn, Atlas V, Chang Zheng 7A, Kinetica-1, and Electron are all scheduled to launch, with flights from China, French Guiana, New Zealand, and several launch sites in the United States.
This week’s launch schedule features two high-profile launches after scrubs from last week, as well as the Sentinel-6B mission and two Starlink missions for SpaceX. A suborbital Electron HASTE mission from Wallops is also scheduled.
