At the start of this week, Monday, Dec. 23, there had been 24 launch attempts worldwide. There was no let-up during the holiday period, with six further launch attempts taking place.
The SpaceX launch manifest for this week included a single customer payload and three batches of Starlink satellites. SpaceX’s target of 136 launches for the year might still have been achieved, but the recent scrub of the Astranis: From One To Many mission and other delays led to SpaceX missing the target by two launches.
Elsewhere, India launched a satellite docking experiment mission, and Russia launched an Earth observation satellite mission. China has flown a single launch from Jiuquan this week, but this mission failed shortly after liftoff.