SpaceX F9 : Starlink v1.0 L22 : CCSFS SLC-40 : 24 March 2021 (0828 UTC)

[FutureSpaceTourist]

[scr00chy]

Visual mission profile with a cute little Shelia Bordelon

[Jansen]

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, March 24 for launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The instantaneous window is at 4:28 a.m. EDT, or 8:28 UTC, and a backup opportunity is available on Thursday, March 25 at 4:06 a.m. EDT, or 8:06 UTC.

The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting this mission previously supported launch of the GPS-III Space Vehicle 03 and Turksat 5A missions in addition to three Starlink missions. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean. One half of Falcon 9’s fairing supported the Sentinel-6A mission and the other supported a previous Starlink mission.

[scdavis]

{... counts missions listed...} Huh, only 5 missions so far - it hasn't been used much yet, it's almost new.

... That was actually my internal thought process. Then I stopped and considered what a strange response that was! Did anyone else respond that way?

[ZachS09]

Having subtracted T.S. Kelso's estimated Starlink deployment time (09:32:22 UTC) by the total mission duration (1 hour, 3 minutes, 52 seconds), the launch time should be at 08:28:30 UTC (4:28:30 AM Eastern).

[soltasto]

"Press kit" capture with OCR

[Everything Space]

Some stats via https://www.boostertracker.com/

[Jansen]

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/03/falcon-9-starlink-l22-liftoff/

NSF pre launch article is up

[Jansen]

Coverage starts at 3:45am EDT/0745 UTC

[Nomadd]

Some stats via https://www.boostertracker.com/

What's the difference between "flight with a flight proven booster" and "re-flight of a booster"?

[tgio]

Some stats via https://www.boostertracker.com/

What's the difference between "flight with a flight proven booster" and "re-flight of a booster"?

The difference might be that "flight with a flight proven booster" specifies Falcon 9. The Falcon Heavy test flight and STP-2 missions both had previously-flown side boosters, which would count as booster reflights but not as "Falcon 9 flights with a flight proven booster," and so would account for the difference between the numbers.

[Nevyn72]

Some stats via https://www.boostertracker.com/

What's the difference between "flight with a flight proven booster" and "re-flight of a booster"?

One is overall, the other is this year, otherwise the same thing.

[Comga]

Some stats via https://www.boostertracker.com/

What's the difference between "flight with a flight proven booster" and "re-flight of a booster"?

The difference might be that "flight with a flight proven booster" specifies Falcon 9. The Falcon Heavy test flight and STP-2 missions both had previously-flown side boosters, which would count as booster reflights but not as "Falcon 9 flights with a flight proven booster," and so would account for the difference between the numbers.

IOW
A Falcon Heavy launch with previous flown boosters increases the "flight with a flight proven booster" count by one but increases the "re-flight of a booster" count by two.
The difference of 2 in the counts means two Heavy launches have 2 re-flown boosters each, as tgio said.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

[vaporcobra]

Go for prop load.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

NSF is live

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1374631757014654978

T-30 minutes until launch of Starlink. Webcast will go live ~15 minutes before liftoff spacex.com/launches

[FutureSpaceTourist]

T-20 vent

[Chris Bergin]

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1374634508344045568

[Jansen]

Preparing OCISLY