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That brings us to the eighth and last launch of the week. China's CAS successfully launched a Connecticut 1 rocket this morning, Tuesday, August 19 at 1.33 mountain daylight time from the Jiaquan satellite launch center. There was a ride share mission that placed seven satellites into a sun synchronous orbit that included Mexico's FunSat-1.5. That brings us up to the upcoming launches. Next week we have a huge launch week with 11 launches on the docket at press time including the big Starship test flight 10 on Sunday. We have six SpaceX launches, two Russians, one Chinese, one rocket lab and one Blue Origin coming up this week. The first one is tomorrow at Wednesday, August 20 at 11.13 mountain daylight time. Russia's Roscosmos plans to launch a Soyuz 2.1A rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Bion-M mission is headed to low Earth orbit and is an uncrewed Russian spaceship based on the Vostok spacecraft which is capable of returning to Earth with some experiments. Alright, I'm going to reset the repeater there.