The Weekly Rocket Report #37

08/04/2025-08/10/2025

Ricky Whitmore

Space Writer

Hello All, welcome back to The Weekly Rocket Report!  It was a pretty busy week to start, but fell off quite a bit towards the end, lets talk about it shall we. 

The first launch of the week came early Monday morning when Falcon 9 lifted off from the Cape carrying Starlink Group 10-30.  The rockets first stage booster separated and landed on the drone ship “Just Read The Instructions”, following which the 28 satellites were deployed successfully. 

Falcon 9 launches Starlink 10-30. Photo Credit: SpaceX.

Next up, more internet satellites, this time from China.  In its second launch Long March 12 carried 9 satellites to orbit on SatNet LEO Group 7, part of SatNet’s ever expanding constellation. 

Early Tuesday morning saw another launch from Electron.  This launch, called “The Harvest Goddess Thrives” carried a SAR satellite for IQPS. 

Electron launches “The Harvest Goddess Thrives”. Photo Credit: Rocket Lab.

Skipping ahead to Friday, for the final launch of the week we head north, from New Zealand back to China.  Jielong 3 blasted to the sky for only the second time this year, from a boat off the Chinese coast.  The rocket was carrying Geely Constellation Group 4, 11 satellites for yet another Chinese LEO communications constellation.

Jielong 3 launches Geely Constellation Group 4. Photo Credit: https://x.com/CNSpaceflight.

That’s everything from this week my friends, looking ahead to next week we should have an interesting time.  Launches from Vulcan and Ariane 6 are scheduled, as well as the second Falcon 9 launch of satellites for Project Kuiper, which was delayed multiple times during this week.  We’ll see if it actually gets off the ground next week and we will be back to talk about it, and all the other launches on The Weekly Rocket Report! 

 As always feel free to write to me at rickyew2112@gmail.com, or find me on X @Rickyew2112

Sic Itur Ad Astra

(Thus They Journey to the Stars)