Launch Preview: Array of international launches planned this week

NASASpaceflight reports that six missions are slated for launch around the globe this week. China’s Galactic Energy will attempt the maiden flight of its Pallas‑1 medium‑lift vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Tuesday, September first, carrying a Sun‑synchronous payload and featuring grid‑fin and landing‑leg hardware similar to SpaceX’s Falcon nine, though no recovery is planned. On the same day Rocket Lab will fire its Electron from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on the “Owl Around the World” mission for Japan’s Synspective, placing a one hundred kilogram synthetic‑aperture‑radar satellite into a mid‑latitude orbit. From California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, a Falcon nine booster on its thirty‑fifth flight will deliver a batch of Starlink v2 Mini satellites, with the first stage slated to land on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship. India’s ISRO will launch the EOS‑05 imaging satellite on a GSLV Mk II from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, providing rapid disaster imagery for the region. In Norway, Germany’s Isar Aerospace will attempt the second flight of its Spectrum vehicle, lofting five CubeSats and an experiment from Andøya. Together these flights underscore a busy week of international space‑flight activity across multiple continents.

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