SpaceX F9 - Starlink Group 7-10 - SLC-4E

Launch Date: January 12
Launch Window: 12:59AM PST (03:59AM EST, 08:59 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - OCISLY
Booster: B1061.18
Fairings: Reused
Mass: 22 v2 mini Starlink satellites
Orbit: SSO - Polar LEO
Yearly Launch Number: 4

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 133rd group of satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 7-10. This group in this shell will be headed to the 53 degree inclination shell at a 525km circular orbit.

B1061 will be the second booster to 18 launches.

 

[JB47394]

Are all new satellites equipped with the D2D hardware or are they going to play with the 6 they have for a while before launching any more?

 

[Grendal]

Are all new satellites equipped with the D2D hardware or are they going to play with the 6 they have for a while before launching any more?

Delayed a day and no information from any sources yet whether they will be D2D or just the regular V2 minis.

 

[bxr140]

Hard to say if they will preemptively launch D2D sats (speculation is 800-1000 sats needed) but they won’t be doing any testing with any additional D2D sats that get launched.

 

[Grendal]

Knowing SpaceX, they still have a pile of the v2 minis. So I will expect them to launch as many as they have built. Another consideration is whether D2D Starlinks will always be a separate type of satellite. At this point, I don't know.

 

[bxr140]

Knowing SpaceX, they still have a pile of the v2 minis. So I will expect them to launch as many as they have built. Another consideration is whether D2D Starlinks will always be a separate type of satellite. At this point, I don't know.

Yeah they're building V2minis and V2 D2D's more or less side by side. It's basically the end of the line where one payload gets bolted on vs the other.

 

[MyJoule]

Still on the ground, delayed again, Weather I assume, but nothing that I've seen says anything about that might go the 14th at 12:59AM now

 

[Grendal]