This Week’s Additional Launches
It is an exciting week in space flight. Beyond the next three, there are five more launches this week. The first flight of India’s first privately developed launch rocket, Skyroot’s Vikram-1. It will be carrying four payloads. Good luck boys. Two Starlink launches, utterly routine. The launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying crew to the ISS, two Russians and an American. Unusually, this includes a Russian woman, Anna Kikina, on her second spaceflight. Including the actress who shot a movie on the ISS, this will make a grand total of nine spaceflights by six Russian women going all the way back to Valentina Tereshkova. Starship Flight 13. I find that hard to believe, it took so long between flights 11 and 12. Let’s hope they finally have everything worked out. Good luck boys.
July 13 | 05:00 UTC: Vikram-1 | Aagaman (Demo Flight) | First launch Pad, satish Dhawan Space centre, India
July 14 | 01:16 UTC: Falcon 9 | Starlink Group 15-14 | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California
July 14 | 07:15 UTC: Falcon 9 | Starlink Group 10-45 | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida
July 14 : 14:47 UTC: Soyuz 2.1a | Soyus MS-29 | Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
July 15 : 22:45 UTC: Starship-Super Heavy | Flight 13 | Pad 2, Starbase, Texas
Also, China did this.
Their landing architecture is quite distinctive in contrast to what we see in case of Falcon 9 or New glenn where the landing legs extends and then the rocket lands.
Also, this shuts the Sinophobes who otherwise may have said "Oh..pfff, they just copied spacex".
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July 13 | 05:00 UTC: Vikram-1 | Aagaman (Demo Flight) | First launch Pad, satish Dhawan Space centre, India"
As far as I know, Vikram-1's launch date isn't confirmed as of 10th July.
They have only announced the launch window, that is anytime between 12th July to 4th August.
I suspect SpaceX is thinking it's going to need all it's launch capacity for it's bullshit "space data center" launching. when the AI market and the "data center in space" idea inevitably FINALLY bursts (probably before 2029) they'll suddenly be begging for customers for rideshare launches again. I'm hoping by then customers will have moved on to other providers and give Musk the finger.
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