Launch Thread: SpaceX Falcon 9 - Starlink-L28

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the first shell is completed! edition

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRu-ekesDyY
Launch window: Wednesday, May 26 2:59 PM EDT / 18:59 UTC (instantaneous)

Probability of violating weather constraints: 10% (https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20Starlink-L28%20L-1%20Day%20Forecast%20-%2026%20May%20Launch.pdf?ver=nwfRpVfbjGHhWq7a7-eznQ%3d%3d)
Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 with first stage B1063.2 (prior launch: Sentinel-6A)
Launch pad: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
First stage landing: On autonomous spaceport droneship “Just Read the Instructions”
Fairings: "One half of Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported four Starlink missions, and the other previously supported a Starlink mission and the Transporter-1 mission."
Payload: 60 Starlink satellites
Payload mass & deployment orbit: ~15,600 kg (~260 kg / Starlink sat); 261 x 278 km @ ~53°
TLE: https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink-V1.0-28.txt

>https://www.spacex.com/launches/
>https://www.starlink.com
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm

Launch viewing guide for Florida:
>http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html
>https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/see-a-rocket-launch#LaunchViewingTips

SpaceX twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX

>118th Falcon 9 flight, 78th landing, 61th reflight of a 1st stage booster
>16th SpaceX orbital launch of 2021