Launch Thread: SpaceX Falcon 9 - Starlink-L11

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let's just get this over with and get on to the hop edition

Livestream: https://youtu.be/_j4xR7LMCGY
Launch: Thursday September 3 8:46 AM. EDT / 12:46 UTC

Probability of violating weather constraints: 20% (https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20Starlink%20L-11%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%203%20Sep%20Launch.pdf?ver=bsiWkWmmvJt5-UnXsnCS_Q%3d%3d)
Backup launch: Friday September 4 8:24 AM EDT / 12:24 UTC
Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 with first stage B1060.2 (prior launches: GPS III Space Vehicle 03)
Launch pad: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Fairings: New?
Fairing recovery: On fairing recovery vessel 'Ms. Chief'
First stage landing: On autonomous spaceport droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’
Payload: 60 Starlink satellites
Payload mass & destination orbit: ~15,600 kg (~260 kg / Starlink sat); 210 x 366 km @ ~53°
TLE: https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink-12.txt
>https://www.starlink.com
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/index.html
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm
>https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/09/spacex-falcon-launch-starlink-11/

Launch viewing guide for Florida: http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html
SpaceX twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX

This will be the 60th landed first stage, 41st re-flight of a first stage, and 93rd Falcon 9 launch. It is the 15th SpaceX orbital launch of 2020.