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\n\t\t\t\tHere’s what’s launching July 6\u201312: SpaceX flies its Transporter 17 rideshare mission, while China’s Long March 10B and India’s Skyroot Aerospace attempt debut demonstration flights.\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Falcon 9 rocket climbs from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying the Transporter-16 rideshare mission on March 30, 2026. SpaceX’s dedicated smallsat rideshare program returns this week with Transporter-17, lifting off from the same pad. Credit: Kevin Hernandez\/U.S. Space Force, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Rocket launches this week<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, July 7, at 3:10 a.m. EDT, SpaceX is targeting the launch of its Transporter 17<\/a> rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Flying on a Falcon 9 Block 5, the mission carries a mix of small satellites from multiple commercial and government customers under SpaceX\u2019s dedicated smallsat rideshare program. The booster is expected to land on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. Watch it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Thursday, July 9, at 5:05 a.m. EDT, SpaceX heads to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for the Starlink Group 10-42 mission<\/a>, adding another batch of satellites to its broadband internet constellation. The Falcon 9 booster is targeting a landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas. Watch it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Friday, July 10 brings two launches. At 1:20 a.m. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is set to fly a Long March 10B rocket on a demonstration flight from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the island of Hainan in the South China Sea per tracking from Next Spaceflight<\/a>; the payload has not been disclosed. Both burn kerosene and liquid oxygen, and both are designed around a reusable first stage. China has tried this twice before and come up empty both times \u2014 a Long March 12A and a Zhuque rocket each failed to stick their booster landings \u2014 as the country races to match SpaceX\u2019s rapid-reusability model.\u00a0<\/p>\n Later that day, at 10 p.m. EDT, SpaceX launches Starlink Group 17-48<\/a> from Vandenberg, with the booster targeting a landing on Of Course I Still Love You. Watch it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Saturday, July 11, at 10 p.m. EDT, Chinese launch startup Orienspace is scheduled to fly its Gravity 1 rocket from the Haiyang Oriental Spaceport, carrying an unknown payload, per tracking from Next Spaceflight<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Sunday, July 12, at 1 a.m. EDT, Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace targets a demonstration flight of its Vikram-I rocket, dubbed \u201cAagaman,\u201d<\/a> from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the island of Sriharikota in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n Rocket launches last week<\/p>\n China launched twice to build out SpaceSail\u2019s polar broadband constellation: a Long March 6A carried the Polar Group #13 satellites from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on July 4, followed by a Long March 8A carrying Polar Group #14 from Wenchang on July 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n SpaceX also added to its own constellation on July 5, launching Starlink Group 10-50<\/a> from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n On July 3, Katalyst\u2019s Swift Boost Mission<\/a> finally lifted off aboard a Northrop Pegasus XL from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, following months of delays<\/a>. The flight carries Katalyst\u2019s LINK spacecraft, a robotic servicer built to grab ahold of NASA\u2019s aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and boost it into a higher, longer-lasting orbit. NASA confirmed on July 3 that ground teams had made first contact with LINK<\/a> following separation.\u00a0<\/p>\n RELATED: NASA launches Swift Boost mission to rescue space telescope<\/a><\/p>\n Upcoming rocket launches<\/p>\n On July 13, SpaceX launches Starlink Group 15-14<\/a> from Vandenberg at 6:38 p.m. EDT. The next day, July 14, brings a busy schedule: SpaceX targets another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral at 3:15 a.m. EDT, and Roscosmos launches Soyuz MS-29 <\/a>from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:47 a.m. EDT, carrying NASA\u2019s Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the International Space Station. On July 17, CASC plans a Long March 7A launch from Wenchang carrying an undisclosed payload according to tracking from Next Spaceflight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to Article List Here’s what’s launching July 6\u201312: SpaceX flies its Transporter 17 rideshare mission, while China’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,18437,141,4688],"class_list":["post-528376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-robotic-spaceflight","tag-science","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}