"Axiom-3 Crew and Tianzhou 7 Cargo Space Station Missions Set for Launch This Week"

This week's space launches include Axiom-3, flying four private astronauts to the International Space Station, Tianzhou 7 cargo spacecraft heading for the Chinese Space Station, Japan launching a military reconnaissance satellite, the maiden flight of the Gravity-1 rocket by OrienSpace, and SpaceX's Starlink 6-37 mission. These launches continue a rapid cadence of flights, with 2024 likely to surpass the record 220 orbital launch attempts in 2023.