Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2)

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Launch Time: Thursday, January 27 6:11 p.m. EST / 23:11 UTC (instantaneous launch window)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFoi68L-GQ

Weather Forecast: 60% GO https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20COSMO-SkyMed%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%2027%20Jan%20Launch.pdf?ver=8DHLypSERIGCjzRv-kYVWA%3d%3d
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Landing Site: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Booster: B1052.3 (Prior missions: Arabsat-6A, STP-2.)
Fairings: “One half of the fairings supporting this mission previously supported Transporter-1, Transporter-2, and one Starlink mission, and the other half previously supported SAOCOM 1B, Transporter-2, and one Starlink mission.”
Payload: Italian earth observation (primarily SAR) sat named CSG-2
>https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/cosmo-skymed-second-generation
>https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cosmo-skymed-csg.htm
Payload mass & destination orbit: 810 kg; Circular sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit, nominal altitude = 619.6 km, inclination = 97.86º)
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/

Launch Viewing Guide for Florida:
>http://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html
>https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/viewing.html

Stats: 4th SpaceX launch of 2022, 137th F9 launch, 97th landing, 79th reflown booster.
This is the first Falcon Heavy side booster to F9 center core conversion booster to fly!