In this week’s Launch Roundup, SpaceX will launch a new space telescope, India will send a spacecraft to land on the moon, and Europe will say goodbye to a venerable launch vehicle during the first half of July. In the meantime, the world is closing in on 100 launch attempts as the first half of 2023 comes to a close on Friday.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, Rocket Lab conducted the first launch of its new suborbital rocket while a new Spanish suborbital booster suffered an on-pad abort during its maiden launch attempt. Meanwhile, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is scheduled to conduct its first launch of 2023 on Tuesday, and SpaceX is preparing to launch an European space telescope.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, SpaceX placed 125 satellites into orbit on Monday with a pair of Falcon 9 launches conducted from opposite coasts only 14 hours apart.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, a new crew led by a veteran astronaut on his fourth spaceflight arrived at China’s Tiangong space station for a six-month mission on Tuesday (May 30).

In this week’s Launch Roundup, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday (May 22), bringing four astronauts on Axiom Space’s second private mission to the orbiting facility. Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson commands the eight-day Ax-2 mission, which was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, new crews and cargo ships are scheduled to visit the International Space Station and China’s Tiangong orbital outpost this month.

In this week’s Launch Roundup, Rocket Lab launched two satellites for NASA that will provide valuable data on hurricanes and tropical cyclones on Sunday, May 7 (Monday, May 8 in New Zealand).

In this week’s Launch Roundup, SpaceX leads all launch providers thus far in 2023 as the Elon Musk-led company has averaged one flight roughly every four days.

The question of whether SpaceX’s Starship maiden launch last Thursday was a success or a failure is a matter of perspective.