This week’s launch manifest is quite diverse, featuring the launches of four different rockets worldwide. Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket has simulated the Moon’s gravity from just beyond the Kármán line, and Rocket Lab launched Electron for the first time this year from New Zealand.
Russia launched Soyuz for the first time in 2025 with a batch of classified satellites. SpaceX continued its rapid launch cadence this week with four successful Falcon 9 launches.