Three Falcon 9 Starlink missions and a Rocket Lab Electron launch from New Zealand made up the launch manifest for this week. The first Starlink flight of the week saw a Falcon booster land within Bahamian waters for the first time, while Electron’s launch marked the 60th flight of the rocket since its first flight in 2017.
China launched a communications satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit atop a Chang Zheng (Long March) 3B/E.