A total of five flights were on the worldwide launch manifest for this week. Most notable was to be the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Polaris Dawn mission. A modified Crew Dragon capsule will carry four astronauts into the highest orbit a crewed mission has flown in since the Gemini missions.
In addition to the launch of Polaris Dawn, SpaceX planned to launch three Starlink missions, one of which did fly, but the remaining two Starlink launches have now been further delayed until Wednesday, Aug. 28. No official explanation has been offered for the various delays to the Starlink missions.
Polaris Dawn was also delayed and will now fly on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
China has successfully launched a Long March 7A rocket carrying a communications satellite.