SpaceX dominated this week’s launch manifest with two Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight of its Starship rocket. The two Falcon 9 missions will see the launches of a Transporter rideshare mission, and two Moon landers.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn achieved orbit on Thursday morning following the scrub of its maiden flight attempt on Monday. Blue Origin confirmed that the scrub was caused by ice forming in a purge line on an auxiliary power unit that powers some of New Glenn’s hydraulic systems.
China launched an Earth observation satellite for Pakistan aboard a Chang Zheng 2D on Friday, and launched a Ceres 1 mission on Monday morning.