Launch Thread - SpaceX Falcon 9: Starlink 4-10

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Launch Time: Wednesday, March 9 8:45 a.m. EST, or 13:45 UTC (instantaneous launch window)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqAppamdGyo

Weather Forecast: 80% GO https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon%209%20Starlink%204-10%20L-1%20Forecast%20-%209%20Mar%20Launch.pdf?ver=PdebsD2oyK3kIPUGTFY6jQ%3d%3d
Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Landing Site: Droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas”
Booster: B1052.4 (Prior missions: Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2)
Payload: 48 Starlink satellites
Payload mass & deployment orbit: ~14,500 kg, ~339 x 210 km @ 53.22º
>https://www.spacex.com/launches/
TLE: https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/supplemental/starlink-g4-10.txt

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

Stats: 10th SpaceX launch of 2022, 143rd F9 launch, 103rd first-stage F9 landing, 83rd reflown F9 first stage booster.