Another busy week of spaceflight activities contained a landing failure of a Falcon 9 booster for the first time in over three years. Looking forward, Falcon 9 could launch up to three times this week, including three Starlink flights. Polaris Dawn’s launch date has been delayed due to an unacceptable weather forecast at the time the Dragon capsule would splashdown off the coast of Florida at the end of the mission.
Other launches included Blue Origin’s eighth crewed New Shepard mission, Galactic Energy flying a Gushenxing-1S from the sea on its fourth mission this year, and a CASC launch of Chang Zheng 4B for the third time in 2024.