{"id":21741,"date":"2024-03-19T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/this-week-in-launch-super-thursday-rocket-lab-spacex-russia-and-china-prepare-for-launches-on-the-same-day\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:09:32","slug":"this-week-in-launch-super-thursday-rocket-lab-spacex-russia-and-china-prepare-for-launches-on-the-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/this-week-in-launch-super-thursday-rocket-lab-spacex-russia-and-china-prepare-for-launches-on-the-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Launch: Super Thursday? Rocket Lab, SpaceX, Russia, and China prepare for launches on the same day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Thursday of this week we have a total of four planned launches from around the world from the biggest players in the space launch market. They include Rocket Lab\u2019s first LC-2 mission in 2024, a crew rotation to the ISS by Russia, and a cargo resupply mission to the ISS by SpaceX.<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s launches:<\/h2>\n
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  • March 18 (Monday)\n
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    • SpaceX | Falcon 9 | Starlink 7-16 | 7:28 P.M. PT\n
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      • SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • March 19 (Tuesday)\n
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        • CASC | Long March 8 | Queqiao-2 | 8:31 P.M. ET\n
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          • LC-201, Wenchang Space Launch Site, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • March 21 (Thursday)\n
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            • CASC | Long March 2D | Unknown Payload | 1:35 A.M. ET\n
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              • SLS-2, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
              • Rocket Lab | Electron | Live and Let Fly | 2:15 A.M. ET\n
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                • LC-2, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                • Roscosmos | Soyuz 2.1a | MS-25 | 9:21 A.M. ET\n
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                  • Site 31\/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                  • SpaceX | Falcon 9 | CRS-30 | 4:55 P.M. ET\n
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                    • SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                    • March 22 (Friday)\n
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                      • SpaceX | Falcon 9 | Starlink Group 6-42 | 7:55 P.M. ET\n
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                        • LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                          Russia set to launch next crewed flight to the ISS<\/h2>\n

                          Thursday morning in the Western World, Roscosmos, Russia\u2019s space agency, will launch a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS with three passengers inside it. One will be NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson who will begin a six month stay on the station and relieve Loral O\u2019Hara, who arrived at the ISS last September.<\/p>\n

                          The other passengers, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, will only stay for a few weeks and return on the MS-24 spacecraft already docked to the ISS. Vasilevskaya will become the first woman from Belarus to fly to space, beating out six other woman in a competition for the honor.<\/p>\n

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