The second full week of August is another busy one, with five flights scheduled including the final certification flight of a new launch vehicle from India. The Falcon 9 and Soyuz rockets were also scheduled to fly this week with one mission to the International Space Station and a pair of non-Starlink flights from both coasts of the United States.
This week’s current launch schedule started on Thursday, Aug. 15. Progress MS-28 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with cargo for the ISS. Later on Thursday, a Falcon 9 flew two Maxar imaging satellites from Florida. The Indian SSLV launched on Friday, with a Chinese Chang Zheng 4B and the Transporter-11 Falcon 9 mission from California scheduled for later that day.