In the upcoming week, SpaceX is going to take several astronauts up to the space station for NASA as part of the commercial crew program. It was meant to launch last week but got delayed.
We’ve got quite a busy schedule for rocket launches this week including iSpace’s Hyperbola rocket, Roscosmos’ Angara 1.2, Rocket Lab’s Electron, and two of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 craft. The most noteworthy of these is SpaceX’s Crew-4 Dragon CCP (commercial crew program) mission which will carry NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins as well as ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti to the International Space Station. The first launch of the week is iSpace’s Hyperbola SQX-1 rocket carrying a replacement satellite for a Jilin satellite that was lost in a launch failure last year. The new satellite will replace Jilin-1 MF-01A which attempted a launch on the same rocket type but ultimately failed. This mission is scheduled to launch at 7:20 a.
