Acquiring signal…
The Q-Review
The Q-Review
August 16 – 22, 2026
8 ahead5 flown75% success
Mission of the week
Flight 2
Zhuque-3 · Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Notable vehicle
The scorecard
1/1 calls1/1
Weather calls right
0.053
Brier, 35 launches
Launch90% GOFlew
Brier score is the mean squared error of our published probability against what happened — 0 is perfect, 0.25 is what you’d score by saying “50%” every time. Scrubs for non-weather reasons are left out; they don’t test a weather forecast.
Shareables
What flew
4Monday, August 10, 2026
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The week ahead
8Sunday, August 16, 2026
01:12 UTC
Globalstar 2-R Mission 1 (x 8)Falcon 9 Block 5 · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAThe Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax services via its Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees.
In early 2022, Global…
LEO
01:50 UTC
USSF-366Falcon 9 Block 5 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAUSSF-366 is a classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites for a US government entity based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of rocket stage drop zones being exact fits wit…
LEO
04:00 UTC
Unknown PayloadLong March 12 · Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 12 carrying Unknown Payload to Unknown.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Thursday, August 20, 2026
The week in numbers
8Coming up
5Flown
75%Success
4Nations
75% of resolved attempts reached orbit