Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: Starlink v1.5 Launch 1

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Starlink with lazors edition

Launch Time: Monday, September 13 8:55 p.m. PDT / 3:55 UTC (instantaneous)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4372QYiPZB4

Weather Forecast: ????? The 30th space wing site is garbage compared to 45th
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Landing Site: Droneship “Of Course I Still Love You”
Booster: B1049.10 (Prior missions: Telstar 18 VANTAGE, Iridium-8, Starlink 0.9, Starlink-2, Starlink-7, Starlink-10, Starlink-15, Starlink-17, Starlink-25)
Fairing: One half of Falcon 9’s fairing halves previously supported NROL-108 and the other previously flew on GPS III-3 and Turksat-5A.
Payload: 51 Starlink gen-2 / V2 / 1.5 / whatever the fuck satellites (WITH laser inter-satellite links)
Payload Orbit: ~261 x 278 km @ 71°

>https://www.spacex.com/launches/
>https://www.starlink.com

Stats: 22nd orbital SpaceX launch of 2021, 70th re-flown booster, 91th booster landing, 126th Falcon 9 flight