Where: Dhawan Space Centre, India Why: ISRO, India's space agency, will launch the SSLV rocket on its third developmental flight; the mission is called SSLV-03. The mission will place the EOS 8 Earth observation satellite into orbit. Secondary payloads into the CubeSats Space Rickshaw and IITMSat. BlackSky was going to include its satellites but pulled out and XPoSat moved its satellites to another launch. Recap The first mission we got last week was a Starlink mission. SpaceX used a Falcon 9 to launch 23 Startlink satellites (Starlink-184 / Starlink Group 11-1) into orbit from California, US. The first stage of the rocket performed a landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. The second mission of the week was another Falcon 9 launch but this time carried the Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS carrying 3,720 kilos of supplies to ensure astronauts have everything they need. The first stage of the Falcon 9 performed a landing for reuse. The final launch that we saw was a Chinese Long March 6A carrying the first group of 18 SpaceSail Polar Orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China. These satellites will provide broadband internet services globally. That's it for this week, be sure to check in next time! Tags