This week is busy in spaceflight, with 10 orbital launches planned throughout the week. China has, as expected, continued its launch cadence from last week with three more launches this week. SpaceX planned to launch five Falcon 9 missions in five days with the launches of four Starlink missions and one customer payload but has had to reduce this goal to four launches this week, with one of the Starlink missions slipping into next week.
India’s PSLV-XL launch vehicle will loft a pair of European spacecraft into orbit to study the Sun. The much-delayed European radar satellite Sentinel-1C finally launched atop a Vega C from French Guiana. Russia has launched a delayed military satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.
Lastly, an unexpected launch from Iran on Friday appears to have been successful.