This week is set to be a busy one in the world of spaceflight, with 10 orbital launches planned throughout the week. China is expected to continue its launch cadence from last week with three more launches this week. SpaceX plans to launch five Falcon 9 missions in five days with the launches of four Starlink missions and one customer payload.
India’s PSLV-XL launch vehicle will loft a pair of European spacecraft into orbit to study the Sun, and the much-delayed European radar satellite Sentinel-1C is expected to finally launch atop a Vega C from French Guiana. Lastly, Russia is expected to launch a delayed military satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.