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Welcome to the r/SpaceX Starlink 7-5 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!

Welcome everyone!

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Scheduled for (UTC)	Oct 21 2023, 06:19
Scheduled for (local)	Oct 20 2023, 23:19 PM (PDT)
Payload	Starlink 7-5
Customer	SpaceX
Launch Weather Forecast	Unknown
Launch site	SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
Booster	Unknown
Landing	The Falcon 9 first stage will attempt to land on ASDS OCISLY after this flight.
Mission success criteria	Successful deployment of spacecrafts into orbit
Trajectory (Flight Club)	2D,3D

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Timeline

Time	Update
[](/# MC // row 0) T-2d 23h 17m	Thread last generated using the LL2 API
[](/# MC // row 1) 2023-10-17T22:36:38Z	NET October 21 UTC.
[](/# MC // row 2) 2023-10-14T06:09:09Z	Added launch window per marine navigation warnings.
[](/# MC // row 3) 2023-07-10T16:23:55Z	Adding launch NET September

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Watch the launch live

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Stats

☑️ 290th SpaceX launch all time

☑️ 238th Falcon Family Booster landing

☑️ 74th landing on OCISLY

☑️ 251st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)

☑️ 76th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 22nd launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 11 days, 22:35:10 turnaround for this pad

Stats include F1, F9 , FH and Starship

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Launch Weather Forecast

Weather
Temperature	14.6°C
Humidity	94%
Precipation	0.0 mm (0%)
Cloud cover	16 %
Windspeed (at ground level)	9.0 m/s
Visibillity	24.14 km

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Resources

Partnership with The Space Devs

Information on this thread is provided by and updated automatically using the Launch Library 2 API by The Space Devs.

Community content 🌐

Link	Source
Flight Club	u/TheVehicleDestroyer
Discord SpaceX lobby	u/SwGustav
SpaceX Now	u/bradleyjh
SpaceX Patch List

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