A trio of Falcon 9 Starlink launches, a Falcon 9 non-Starlink launch involving an Eutelsat communications satellite, a Chinese launch, and a Russian Soyuz launch with a Resurs Earth observation satellite are scheduled for this week. However, the launch that will likely get the most attention is the final launch ever of a Delta family rocket, a family that dates back to near the beginning of the space age.
Starlink 6-46 started the launch week off on Monday, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). A launch from China, which had been thought to be a Chang Zheng 6C, but was in fact a CZ-6A variant, occurred on Tuesday.
Starlink 7-18 follows up from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) on the West Coast on Thursday evening in the United States, with NROL-70 making the last Delta 4 Heavy — and Delta family — launch from SLC-37B at CCSFS earlier on Thursday. Starlink 6-45 on a Falcon 9 is scheduled to fly from Florida on Friday. A Soyuz 2.1b with the Resurs-P No. 4 and a Falcon 9 with the Eutelsat 36D satellite are set to round out the launch week.