This week’s manifest features four Falcon 9 launches, including the highly anticipated Polaris Dawn crewed mission, a mission carrying AST SpaceMobile’s first five cellphone-compatible broadband satellites, and the delayed launch of two more satellites for Europe’s mid-Earth orbit Galileo constellation.
Additionally, Roscosmos has launched the Soyuz MS-26 crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Plans for Japan to launch a radar reconnaissance satellite on an H-IIA rocket and for Rocket Lab to launch the second batch of IoT satellites to orbit for its customer Kinéis have been delayed, however, due to weather constraints.