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Show me up to 50 results and flag any rideshare missions."},{"title":"Monitor Rocket Lab upcoming missions","prompt":"List the next 25 Rocket Lab launches over the coming 90 days, and tell me which ones are rideshare missions."},{"title":"Find Chinese orbital launches this quarter","prompt":"What orbital launches are scheduled from Chinese launch pads in the next 60 days? Show me up to 30 results."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON list of upcoming orbital launches with fields including launch name, date, rocket/vehicle, launch provider, pad country, mission description, rideshare flag, orbital-compute project flag, NORAD IDs where available, and source URLs. 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